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Alert Thingy Looks To Be All-In-One Social Desktop Tool

Submitted by Michaelfidler

Oct 06, 2008

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For those nuts out there like us that use just about every social website there is, the upcoming version 2 of Alert Thingy’s AIR desktop application may be just what you need. The current version of the service supports Twitter, Flickr and Friendfeed. But version 2, which will be released this month, adds support for Digg, YouTube, Facebook, Jaiku, Pownce and Tumblr as well. Creator Jeremy Baines hasn’t let us test the new version yet, but he did send us the teaser screen shot below. Can’t wait to try it out. Read the full article

Comments (10)

Thelewisshow,

Oct 06, 2008

It's missing a lot of things such as access to rooms, but I'm thinking 2.0 will have that and some other nice updates!

Michaelfidler,

Oct 06, 2008

@thelewisshow Would you recommend trying it now, or just waiting for 2.0 later this month? I think I might give it a try tonight.

Sushaantum,

Oct 07, 2008

i couldn't install it on ubuntu

Markhorner,

Oct 07, 2008

Unless it runs on my iPhone I think i'll skip this one. The New Facebook 2.0 is pretty neat and hard to beat.

Jagermo,

Oct 07, 2008

I used digsby, which pretty much took care of all my social needs, but it seems kind of buggy since the last release, at least on my system. Seems like Alert Thingy v2 and Miranda may be able to replace digsby, though.

Eng1ne,

Oct 07, 2008

@sushaantum have you installed other Adobe Air apps under Ubuntu? If not, you must first install adobe air for linux, then download the alert thingy installer package and run it locally. The auto-install will not work for this or any other Adobe Air app under Linux.