Sideline – Yahoo!
I told you Adobe AIR was secretly taking over the Internet (here), did you believe me? Well, you shouldn’t. But there are some neato paskeeto apps available for AIR. Yes, paskeeto is a word. Yahoo! recently released a Twitter app (you read that right) called Sideline, and I can’t believe they trademarked it.
Sideline is a simple interface, it doesn’t ask for your credentials, nor allow you to interact with Twitter in terms of contribution or your specific timeline. What does it do? It’s a desktop based search client. Is it innovative and so remarkable that you can’t live without it? Not even a little, I still think it has its purposes though.
Tweetdeck, AlertThingy, and my personal favorite, Twhirl – all have a search feature. Heck, Tweetdeck’s massive footprint is designed specifically for grouped search queries both terms and users alike (and taking up massive amounts of system resources, but hey!). So Sideline, what’s it good for?
Searching Twitter. Duh. It’ll hold search terms, I see this useful at conferences. It’ll show you trends, I see this useful for… keyword squatting while blogging. Umm It’ll show you @replies if you want it to. It does give you little icons for replying to and favoriting tweets, but all that does is pop open a browser and send you to Twitter.
I don’t know. I’m not going to keep it installed. I’m already sold on the AIR app I have for Twitter, but hey – if you don’t want some “random app” to have your credentials, or if you’re a Twitter lurker, this is the application for you!
