Skimmer Comes Nipping at the Heels of TweetDeck
Advertising agency Fallon came up with an easy to use Adobe Air application tool named Skimmer. Skimmer a lifestreaming application pooling Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger and YouTube and displaying it in an easily digestible manner. Similar to TweetDeck it gives you the updates of people you are following and allows you to post to Twitter as well as Facebook, However Skimmer gives you so much more. But more of a good thing is not always better.
Fallon Says:
“On our Web site, Skimmer turns our brand into a living, breathing entity, continually expressed on a moment-to-moment basis in words, design and multimedia by our people,” said Rob Buchner, chief marketing officer, Fallon. “This allows us to live and communicate our brand as authentically as possible in connection with the world at large. For others, Skimmer is a lifestream. For Fallon, it is a brandstream.”
TweekDeck is great at what it does and does it well. I personally like what Skimmer is trying to do and it gives me more tab space on my browser by eliminating the number I need to have open. Not only can I give my status updates to Twitter and Facebook but I can upload directly to Flickr and Youtube as well. It is still in its early stages of development and I hope will progressively get better with suggestions and feedback from the community.
A few things I would like to see is the ability to add a filter such as TweetDeck so that when someone mentions me or anything I may have an interest in and Skimmer can give me a notification. An ability to choose what URL shortening system you would like to use. Surprised Fallon went with TinyURL with its release when you have so many options of shorteners that give you stats of links that you post (i.e. poprl or bit.ly).
Overall Skimmer is a great application and I assume it will only get better. Definitely give them a try if you want to save some tab space and let me know what you think about the application.
