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First Friendfeed client released

Saw this one over at FriendFeed Watch: the first desktop client for FriendFeed was released!  I was looking forward to this, as FriendFeed is such a nice and well implemented idea that justs begs to become a permanent resident of my system tray, rather than having to keep a browser tab permanently open to check on it.  The client is called bTittleTattle (yea, don’t ask), and it was made by the guys at Sobees.  It is based on the Windows Presentation Foundation so, unfortunately, Windows only forever :(   Check out the video below to see what it looks like.

I basically didn’t like it at all, and that seems to be the same opinion over at FriendFeedWatch.  I guess we’ll just have to wait until the rumoured Air client get released.  Its future website still shows a “Under construction” page.

 

[UPDATE]: Less than twelve hours after my post, there is a new version out.  In this new version, I found three different themes, which I must say I did not see in the original version, so I’m not sure if they were already there or not.  And now, we can get rid if the bee!  With a different theme, the app becomes much more usable, the only important thing still missing is minimize to tray.  Take a look at the grey theme in the screenshot.  And François, thanks for your attention ;)

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  • Kishor Gurtu
    Windows only forever is actually a good thing. I'd rather have an app that is designed for an OS than to use one of those 'cross-platform' hacks.
  • I agree with Kishor, rather have this APP for windows. The developers probably took that into account as well.
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