First look: Lazyscope updated tonight (cool Twitter client that uses RSS)

When Ethan Gahng told me this week he had a new Twitter client I almost hung up on him.

After all, does the world really need yet another Twitter client? We already have hundreds of different ones and companies like Seesmic and TweetDeck, not to mention Twitter, have already done an awesome job. I didn’t see what else they might do to really get on my screen.

Let’s just say I was skeptical, but Ethan’s a nice guy and has been trying for a long time to find something that will get me excited.

During the video where he shows me Lazyscope (an Adobe Air-based client for viewing and creating the real-time web) for the first time you’ll hear me switch from being skeptical to seeing the possibilities. That was earlier this week.

Tonight he shipped an update with some of the feedback I gave him (he hadn’t seen an account that followed 27,000 Twitter users run on the service before he came to my house — I let him borrow my account to fix some bugs we both found).

It’s this iteration that has made me a fan, but I think he found something interesting: by mixing Twitter and RSS together you can make a better reading experience. Now each Tweet has a lot more content, if it includes a link to other content he even lets you subscribe to the RSS feed in a user-friendly way.

I’m now using Lazyscope. Is it perfect? No and it won’t be for everyone, but the prefetching of content it does is really cool and useful and saves me time and for that I’m grateful I didn’t blow him off. Why isn’t it perfect? Well, because he chose Adobe Air as the technology it won’t run on my iPhone or iPad, so I can’t use it everywhere. Also, I require a Twitter client to use the new Twitter retweet feature, along with Twitter favorite feature and Lazyscope does its own behavior (he explains that in the video, and tells me he’ll put options in a future version). Also, some people will find the UI too simplistic and want to go back to TweetDeck’s columnar approach or Twitter.com’s bigger fonts.

The update that shipped tonight makes the prefetching work much better, especially on fast-moving streams like mine. You should make sure you have the latest one.

Are you using it? What do you think? First reactions from my friends are very positive. Here’s some other press that LazyScope got this week:

Louis Gray: Lazyscope: An Immersive Twitter Desktop News Experience.

The Next Web: Try This: Lazyscope. Twitter meets RSS reader; subscribe to anything.

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my6sense for Android gets updates to take over as your social client of choice

November 23 2010 by admin in News |

If you’re not familiar with my6sense, then please stop reading this and go read this first. As I’ve told many people before, there’s simply nothing out there that can compare to the intuition-based feeds that my6sense provides.

The issue that I’ve had with using my6sense as a primary client on my Droid X, however, has been in the fact that it’s a bit limiting because I could only share to my social networks previously. That’s now changed, though, with new updates that let you post directly to Twitter, Facebook or Google Buzz, instead of simply having to share items from  your timeline.

Of course there are some limitations. my6sense isn’t TweetLonger, so you’re limited to the 140 characters for Twitter (but that’s a good thing). Want to post something longer? You can do that with Buzz or Facebook by going up to 420 characters for each of them.

Beyond the ability to push updates, however, there’s also a new widget for my6sense. While I typically use TweetDeck for Android as my main Twitter client, I’m not at all a fan of the widgets choices. I like small (1×4 preferred) widgets, and I want them to display information for me.

The new widget from my6sense’s app allows you to choose between using Google Buzz, Twitter and Facebook, or the combined widget which will display the most relevant information from all of your sources.

my6sense is free, from the Android Market. If you haven’t tried it yet, you owe it to yourself to do so. Within a couple of days, it quickly became my favorite way to find the most relevant information for me and I’m sure you’ll find it to be the same for you.

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