Social Networking Applications

0Mike • 9th Feb 2009 • Mac, Applications, Mac, Coding, Featured, Site • Applications, Social Network

There have been so many small applications that allow you to tap into social networks such as Twitterific, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and AlertThingy.  Out of all those the only one I visually like is Twitterific.  It’s probably because it’s the only one designed for use on the Mac.  The other three are made using Adobe Air, a platform that runs on both Windows and Mac. It seems that those three applications were designed by a Windows user because of their lack of a clean interface. I would love for a developer to create an application specifically for the Mac that does not run on Windows that can handle multiple social networks such as Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Digg, ect.  I know EventBox is working on that solution but they are charging for their application. Yes I understand that they have put in a lot of time but none of the social networks charge for their services so why should this app. I feel that EventBox could do much better if it was opened to other developers. There are a lot of great developers out there that could add social networks to the list of supported services much faster.

  Thinking about this has made me think that this kind of application is what I would like to work on for my first application. I know it would take me a long time to complete as a first project but that’s why it would be open to other developers to help. I hope to start something like this sometime in Summer ’09