Seesmic Desktop Gets Full Facebook Open Stream API Support

After the launch of Seesmic for Facebook a weeks days ago, Seesmic Desktop will have in a few days full new Facebook Open Stream API support that Facebook just announced, add your name and email on the Seesmic Desktop page to join our "Team Seesmic" preview group get it as soon as we make it available for testing.

-this new release of Seesmic Desktop supports the full new Facebook Open Stream API with not only status updates but all its content (pics, links, videos, likes and comments)

-Facebook integrates as a new account in our interface that already supports multiple Twitter accounts with a new, Facebook only column and account type

-You can now have side by side your full Facebook stream and Twitter stream

-our home timeline provides a combined feed of both Facebook + Twitter accounts

Seesmic Desktop brings you in one single space, all your community sharing and receiving activity. Seesmic Desktop is only at a preview stage but already used by tens of thousands of users who help us build it with their feedback.

Seesmic Desktop Launch Video

Seesmic Desktop Preview Launch

I am very excited that we will be launching our new Seesmic Desktop Preview tonight at 6pm PST. It is our first team seesmic gathering.

Team Seesmic started a few months ago and we have now 7,000 members. We send the previews of our products to Team Seesmic first and get hundreds of feedback emails each time as well as on our dedicated feedback page. That is how we like building our products, in the open as much as possible.

Today we are very excited that 100 team seesmic members and friends are joining us in person and hundreds more live to see Seesmic Desktop and I hope they will like it. We will stream it at live.loic.tv with our ustream friends and I hope everything goes ok! I will monitor as much as possible questions coming from the chat room or video comments (please add them to that thread).

It is only a preview, we will iterate as fast as we can with your feedback. See you all tonight!

Digg added to Twhirl!

We have just pushed an update to Twhirl (get version 0.9.1 here) to support the brand new and cool digg url shortener that Kevin Rose just announced. Digg and Twhirl users can now use it as their default if they like while all other options are available. We are very excited to partner with our friends at Digg and looking forward to even more integration soon.