We’ve written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more.
The new client includes support for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed and LinkedIn (which was added late last year). The most significant addition is the availability of realtime search on the client, with the ability to search Twitter, Friendfeed, OneRiot and FacteryLabs from within the application. Sobees integrated elements of its newly launched realtime web dashboard to power search in the client.
Sobees has also added drag and drop technology for columns in order to change the place of a column within the client. Other technical updated include the ability to preview Tweets and maps, translate messages, and see pictures posted on TwitPic from within the Tweet. And Sobees will break out threaded conversations you have with friends.
Sobees is competing in a crowded space where each client continues to innovate and offer users more options for managing their social media accounts and the reealtime web. For example, Seesmic has incorporated Ping.fm, to allows users to update more than 50 different social networks at the same time. And TweetDeck now incorporates YouTube and Flickr within its client. For now, Sobees doesn’t have any mobile clients but we are told that iPhone and Android apps are coming soon.
What the.. wow, all hands are into the pie now..
Sobees is awesome. I love that I can fit all 7 of my columns on a single screen (they can be stacked), as opposed to only 4 or 5 with Tweetdeck/Seesmic.
This new version has a few mild bugs, but is still miles ahead of the competition…
The simple fact that it does not run on Adobe Air wins my attention!
I know, and I figured there’d be a slew of comments about how it’s going to fail b/c it’s written in .NET :)
I tried just about all the PC clients and Brizzly is the only one that makes sense to me!
It’s great that the Sobees and Seesmic Windows clients are leapfrogging each other. Makes for great competition!
Tweetdeck had an early start but they are going to fade away because they rely on Adobe Air which has been a total fail. WPF and Silverlight out-of-browser apps are the future for good Windows 7 apps.
I was thrilled to find Sobees alpha last year and dump Tweetdeck. Then Seesmic desktop for Windows came out and one-upped them on features and usability.
Been trying the new Sobees beta out this morning and it looks a good deal better than Seesmic. The layout options are very nice. Sobees is the new king of the Windows twitter client hill until Seesmic’s promised new major version comes out.
Definitely a great client; I just switched from twhirl. Much better. My favorite part is the ability to change the layout, which I haven’t seen to this extent in any other client, and the fact that it is very responsive.
My favorite desktop client thus far.
The simple fact that it does not run on Adobe Air wins my attention!