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Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

emma — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:58:58 -0000

I tried to install skimmer but i get this mysterious error: "This application cannot be installed because this installer has been mis-configured. Please contact the application author for assistance." Any ideas??

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Elias Moubayed — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:40:47 -0000

I am totally onboard with the vision - would be so cool, but it just doesn't do it just yet -kinda clunky and disorganized. Keep going guys - first version of windows wasn't great either.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Adam Grant — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:43:04 -0000

This app is sexy as hell and, I'm afraid, a possible tweetdeck killer by offering more features in a more simplified, elegant interface. I'm replaceing TD with Skimmer.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Kevin Amter — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:19:27 -0000

Whether this is fully functional or not, I think the effort is a wake up call to the industry. I was trying to get Fallon to do something similar two years ago. Agencies, on the digital or traditional side, are not fully embracing the available mediums. Digital agencies say they are the wave of the future and are more than production companies. Traditional agencies say they are integrated. Neither is really true to date. This is the second effort, first was by a digital shop in CO with a different product, by an agency that is actually an attempt at both. Good for you Fallon. Good for you.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Jamie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:45:18 -0000

Skimmer looks lovely, but I think I'll shy away from it from the point of view of the Ts & Cs. Not too keen on Air applications anyway.

I wrote a related post here on Skimmer, lifestreaming, and encouraging behaviour change if anyone's interested:
http://designandbehaviour.r...

Thanks for the article.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Dean Gvozdic — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:54:51 -0000

i wish it had tumblr support

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Ted — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:45:15 -0000

same problem. don't get it

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Shannon — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:51:58 -0000

Visual flow is terrible. Huge avatar blocks on the left are disassociated from the messages on the right. Typography and color scheme contribute to a very hard-to-read (and ironically) hard-to-skim mess. No ability to view replies in threaded form. No obvious way to categorize your contacts to use the category filters.

Sorry, needs a lot of work before this is ready to compete. Take a look at Tweetdeck for grouping/typography/layout ideas that work. Take a look at Twittilator Pro (iPhone App) for how to handle threading.

Plus you need to incorporate some trending views if you want this to be the home-base client for users. Right now nothing beats a combo of apps on your iPhone/iPod touch. TweetDeck is the only desktop client that comes close but they need to add ability to view threaded replies.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Matt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:02:31 -0000

what kind of problem are you having? i was able to install and load it on my os x machine using firefox 3.1b3, firefox 3.0.7, and safari 4.

not saying you're not having a problem, just saying what i'm using to get it working ;)

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Analisa — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:15:43 -0000

This seems to be just what have been looking for! I hope this is a good way to manage my personal social medias, I wonder if it would be helpful to social media managers trying to maintain the networks of a brand...

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

J-Man — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:06:19 -0000

BROKEN!!!! Why aren't they ready for this???

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Matt — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:34:04 -0000

it's up - grab it @ http://fallon.com/skimmer

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Hamid Ilyas — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:45:40 -0000

I was able to download it......for those who are unable to access the url given above they can download using below

_http://rapidshare.com/file...

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Tom ONeill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:10:14 -0000

No it works on any platform that AIR supports. So if your a "PC" you are good to go.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

manujarch — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:54:05 -0000

Hi is this only for MAC?

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Chris Wiggins — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:43:32 -0000

As of now, Skimmer only supports Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, and Blogger. We may add more services in the future, however.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Facebook User — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:37:31 -0000

Getting a 404 too! :(

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Mushin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:30:53 -0000

The download's link is broken

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Matt Hardwick — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:17:31 -0000

Where do you register? There seems to be no mention of Skimmer anywhere on the new site.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

@danielooi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:05:00 -0000

The site is up now and I have successfully registered!
Check it out now!

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Honey Singh — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:46:14 -0000

Just to update that skimmer is facing so much traffic probably due to social effect :P
They need to upgrade their server. :D

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

@danielooi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:43:02 -0000

OK so I have downloaded before the site crash and now I having problem registering...
Error as below,
"You have entered an invalid username or password, please try again"
WTH? all I want to do is register a new account...

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Walter Gross — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:41:57 -0000

getting a 404 as well

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

crowdadmin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:40:26 -0000

Looks very promising. It's above time to have something like that.

Re: Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites

Honey Singh — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:39:48 -0000

I was their in the abode air workshop at wordcamp india.When i asked the adobe guys about AIR memory hocking issues then they simply says "we don't have any answers".
Adobe air applications are no doubt awesome but they suck so much of system requirements for example "Tweet deck".
I just installed the "skimmer" and hope it will work fine for me.Will write the reviews soon.