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Twhirl Running on Asus EEE PC (Linux)

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So the last few weeks I’ve been tinkering around with a new Asus ‘Netbook’ mini laptop; specifically the EEE 901 Linux version. I’ll have more in-depth thoughts on it shortly (but it’ll boil down to the thing is called a netbook, and if you waved a wand over a Psion Netbook to bring it up to date with the modern world, this is what you’d get). Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with the hacking on it today, as I finally got the Twitter client Twhirl running on the EEE with no nasty terminal command lines or shell windows popping up getting

In The Online Twitter/FriendFeed Widget War, Only The Users Win

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Perfect – Twhirl (from Seesmic) has decided to add in FriendFeed features, and Alert Thingy (Howard/Baines)has integrated Twitter. Two applciations, looking to be the best, are going to deliver the best possible value… to the user. There’s nothing like an arms race to drive innovation. One of them adds a feature, the other follows, and then adds another edge, which gets replicated and trumped, and so on. Love it! So let’s wind back just a touch to what these bits of software are. They both look at two online web services, Twitter (the short message based group conversation) and FriendFeed