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A lot of Twitter users are falling more in love with TweetDeck each day but, did you know there’s now something that’s even better? PeopleBrowsr is the latest Twitter (plus other social sites) application to hit the scene. Though PeopleBrowsr is only in the Alpha stage, it still has loads of features that beat the above mentioned TweetDeck. PeopleBrowsr does everything that I wished TweetDeck did & more.
PeopleBrowsr via kwout
“PeopleBrowsr is a simple visual dashboard that adds more power to Twitter, your other online identities and those of your friends.”
PeopleBrowsr boasts to add more power to Twitter, and it does, but it also supports many other social media sites as well which includes: Digg, Flickr, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Photobucket, Twitter, YouTube, Identi.ca, Seesmic, Upcoming & Webpage. So, as you can see, PeopleBrowsr is definitely the ultimate social media dashboard & a must for social media addicts.
PeopleBrowsr does not require you to download anything, it all stays right in your browser window – hence the name “PeopleBrowsr” (people in your browser). It’s also very easy to sign up & sign in since you simply use your Twitter credentials to do both.
Once you add all your IDs for the sites that you want to follow, it’s up to you where to go from there. PeopleBrowsr can display many different widgets for each site that you want to follow & it differs for each site. So below, you can see some of the widget options I can see for my Twitter account. I usually just have a widget for my friends tweets & a widget for my replies in Twitter but, the decision is all yours.
PeopleBrowsr via kwout
You can move your widgets around & remove them with a click of a button. You can even do a search in each widget & view people in each widget by a certain location. Each widget shows 20 posts but you can easily show more. The widgets are all on auto refresh by default but you can change the time interval at which they refresh, pause a certain widget or turn it off completely. Lastly, there are currently 4 ways that you can sort the people each widget: in A-Z order, by most recently updated, by those only containing links or by the number of followers they have.
You can also re-size each widget so that you can see more in your window at a time. Below I have them as narrow as they go. As you can see, it’s harder to read – you have to scroll horizontally so, it’s probably not the best idea.
My favorite feature so far on PeopleBrowsr though is the ability to create groups. You have the ability to add public or private tags to whichever users you want, in the different social sites that you’re following. If you tag all your close friends with a “friend” tag, you can then view everyone in that group in a widget of its own. This comes in handy for following certain people more closely. If your tags are public, others using PeopleBrowsr will see that tag on that person as well – so be aware of that.
PeopleBrowsr via kwout
So as you can see, PeopleBrowsr really has a lot to offer & it’s definitely worth trying out. Since I’ve been using it, I definitely have been able to be more active in certain sites where I really was not so active. With an Alpha like this, I can’t wait to see what it’s like in the Beta stage. I also want to give a special thanks to SheenOnline for introducing me to PeopleBrowsr. It was his daily shouts (or should I say rants) on Rejaw that got me curious about PeopleBrowsr & led me to try it out for myself.
Have you tried out PeopleBrowsr or currently using it? How do you like it so far? Has it harmed or helped you? Please share.
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I’ve played around with PeopleBrowsr a bit and found it very impressive, especially for an alpha release. It definitely has the potential to become the gold standard for social media dashboards.
By the way, Robert Scoble published a video interview with the developer of PeopleBrowsr on his blog where he demonstrates a few of the more advanced functions — http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/05/twitter-and-all-social-networks-will-never-be-the-same-thanks-to-peoplebrowsr/ — worth watching!
Thank you for sharing Ray. I will definitely take a look at it! I am such a PeopleBrowsr addict now.
Wow! Thanks! I’ve been a member of Twitter for a while, but have never found a use for it and found it kind of lonely since there was no way to find others on Twitter (unless I already know them.)
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll definitely check it out!
I’ve been a TweetDeck fan since last summer when I actually started using Twitter to connect with literary lovers. So if this new application is even better, then I will definitely give it a try soon. Thanks for the review!
Thanks, ChaCha for this wonderful post on PeopleBrowsr Alpha.
I love your great review and I’m delighted to have you on board.
Very welcome your comments also on our Feedback Group, for ideas and suggestions: http://groups.google.com/group/peoplebrowsralphatesters.
Thanks for your fantastic enthusiasm and support.
See you soon on http://peoplebrowsr.com/
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Wow, what a tool! What will be thought of next! I just cannot keep up with all these social media tools. Nor will I try.
Yeah this tool is truly amazing. I dont think anyone can keep up with the advances in technology. As soon as something is built they are immediately trying to come up with something to replace it.
It amazes me how fast things change. Things go in and out so quickly it’s hard to keep up.
Sounds very interesting though.
I like tweetdeck until I get around 500 tweets then it starts to crawl. I think memory utilization and caching in the app could be better (although maybe out of the author’s control as it is Adobe Air after all). I’m going to check out PeopleBrowsr now and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention!
it takes a while to set up and get going, but is very interesting. I don’t think twitter has a long term future, twitter is centralized, a distributed system will take over and with tools like peoplebrowser, it will be a seamless change.
I’m a fan of all these programms and above all of PeopleBrowser. It’s just amazing to find people through these tools.
cheers.
Thanks for the note, it really is an assset to read your comments.
good article and good are the comments too..i say thank you for sharing and now i have to enjoy as soon as i can,too.
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Hmm, I like the industry peoplebrowser best. For the fact that it differentiates the positive and negative comments. How Cool can it get!
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Your article is really interesting and really pleasant. It has relaxed at work this morning. I am fan of this social network. It is really cool to keep in touch with friends.
Thank you for this interesting article.
I really like Twitter. It is a nice tool to be in contact with your friends and people who do not live so close as wished.
I could not make it without it. I need it to communicate and to keep my contacts.
cheers
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i will enjoy your tips. thanks for sharing
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I use twitter for a whole while and i really love it. peoplebrowsr really seems to be a cool goody. Think I’m gonna try it out…
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Have you heard of Echofon – it’s like Tweetdeck but runs inside your web browser
Yes I’ve heard of Echofon. It’s a very popular iPhone app too. I’m not very fond of it though.
Very glad I dropped on your blog..This was just what I was looking for. Keep adding.
No problem Marlive!
I know how you feel eBay! It’s getting hard for me to keep up myself but I do try. It can get exhausting, that’s for sure!
Yea I agree. Seems like eventually something else comes out better & then everyone switches to that for a season until something else comes out & takes over….
You’re very welcome! I like TweetDeck too. I’ve actually become addicted these past few weeks.
You’re so right George! It is very hard to keep up!