Seesmic has been on a roll with steady updates and providing unique as well as intuitive ways to manage and update your Twitter and Facebook stream. There latest line-up now includes Seesmic Web, a browser client. The Seesmic browser client was officially released to the public (due to embargoes) at the TechCrunch real-time web event CrunchUp among other services. So is the Seesmic Web client as good as it claims to be? Let’s find out.

Performance

The Seesmic web client is blazingly fast. After the initial onslaught of visitors the Seesmic web client had after CrunchUp it has not faltered since. It has officially blown Tweetvisor and Peoplebrowsr out of the water in terms of performance. This includes load times as well as using specific functions such as search, replying and updating your Twitter status.

User Interface

Pros:

The user interface has a very Google like feel to it. All the functions are laid out quite clearly in a neat manner while remaining minimal and keeping the focus on what you are using the client for, tweets. Hovering over a Twitter user automatically brings up the reply option with an arrow with further options to RT and/or direct message.

Hovering …

CoTweet, the Twitter client made for businesses just raised one million dollars in funding to further expand its operations as well as keep up with the influx of new users.

CoTweet has been praised by many blogs around the web, they allow direct forwarding of tweets for business employees who aren’t on Twitter as well as a host of other features specific to a business environment. Big businesses including Microsoft and Coca-Cola use CoTweet to manage their Twitter account.

What is most interesting though is with this round of funding CoTweet is opening its doors to anyone. While the product won’t see droves of users like Tweetdeck or even Seesmic Desktop, CoTweet doesn’t mess around. CoTweet is dead serious about being first and foremost about the business and helping them organize, react and reach out to the twitterverse.

eBuddy, a long standing start-up in the web IM arena has finally released their own iPhone application free through the App Store. Previous to this, eBuddy already had an application on Android due to the fact it allowed multi-tasking. This is now a moot point for at least IM clients being built on the iPhone due to push notifications.

The internet can be addicting and we all know that Twitter is one those addictive things. But World of Warcraft is probably the highlight of internet addictions problems with people spending nearly days getting to the next stage. Well what happens if you combine the two? You will get TweetCraft.

The In-Game Twitter client has all the standard features that any other basic client has. Such as updating your status and checking replies. There are also some features specific to the WoW game. You have the option of having an auto-tweet sent out whenever you login and gain various achievements.  You can also take a screenshot of your latest battle and have it automatically tweeted out via Twitpic. This is a feature I am sure WoW users will love. TweetCraft does nothing beyond that.

While this Twitter client isn’t feature rich you have to keep in mind, this is in-game. As far as my understanding goes, WoW is a game of strategy if you take it seriously and a lot of people do. The first priority on their list won’t be checking their latest searches while playing the game or even their …

As I always do, the first thing I did when I got home this evening was to open TweetDeck. What did I see waiting for me?

Instead of the usual 100 API calls per hour, TweetDeck says that I now have a maximum of 150.

Is this something permanent? I really hope that it is, because that would take us one step closer to real time in our much beloved third party Twitter applications. I, however, was willing to pay for such an increase, to help shoulder the burden of the hardware costs.

Please, Twitter, give me more API calls. Open the fire hose, and I will gladly open my wallet to help you in return.

SkyGrid, the financial real-time financial news source is getting all dressed up in Twitter. You can now follow the @skygrid twitter account and get the latest updates from the top companies in the world. But if you only care about a category on Skygrid, say technology or health, you can get specific updates via @skygridhealth or @skygridtech.

This is a wonderful addition for the people who use Twitter as their source of news on various topics. But at the same time I must wonder, is this good for Skygrid? With @skygrid tech I no longer have a reason to log into the Skygrid service nor does anyone need to make an account. This cuts down on their page views and potential ad revenue, assuming that is where they wanted to head monetization wise. If I can keep just one more app closed trust me I will whether it adversely effects a company or not.

While this may look good for Skygrid today, it won’t be all that beneficial in the long term. There is no way to monetize a Twitter account that doesn’t tick off followers and if …

Firefox 3.5 is out and ready to roll with one million downloads and counting and Firefox is letting you know it via their real-time tracker. The real-time tracker displays a visual map of where the downloads are occuring as well country by country download numbers. While this real time tracking is truly pointless it does look cool and it is neat to see the enthusiasm that the Firefox 3.5 community has.

If you want to go check out the real-time tracker here it is, if anything else it is neat to look at. If you want to feel special and show up on the map yourself go download Firefox here and see if you can find yourself as your downloading it.

Last night, @nams lovingly brought up she would like like a tool that imports her Facebook events to her calendar and I realized I would particularly enjoy that also. I tend to be a forgetful person, and I am pretty dependant upon Google Calendar and no matter how hard I try I often forget Facebook events myself, simply because they are not in my calendar. That is why I was pretty  pleased when @nams discovered fbCal.

What Is fbCal?

fbCal is a Facebook application that lets you port your Facebook events and birthdays into Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook or Mozilla Sunbird. You can also download the raw data in XML format and port it over to any other application of your choice. fbCal is owned and created by social site Mixin.

Pros

fbCal is simple to use, just approve the permissions and click the calendar you want your events ported into. You also get some pretty decent control over what events get ported into your calendar. If you only want the events you are planning on attending, so be it, but if you want to include the events you are attending and the events you might …