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April 16th 2009
Recently, a new program grabbed my attention. Its stunningly beautiful way of presenting common social networking sites all together definitely took me by surprise.
“Skimmer℠ is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.”
Personally, I’ve never been a fan of Adobe Air applications, its too out-of-the-way. But I’m definitely going to get Air for this program (even though I only use a few of the offered social networking sites). Even just the screenshots are stunning:
“Any update in the aggregated feed view can be expanded in one click to reveal the content of the post. A Flickr set, for example, can be viewed in its entirety without ever leaving the feed view.”
“In Skimmer’s YouTube view you can also browse the most recent videos from all your friends.”
Honestly, has social networking ever looked this good? Separate networking websites do have their share of designers working to make the site look decent, but Skimmer compiles the contents of these sites (making feed browsing much more efficient) and presents it in a highly aesthetic way. Even though it’s still in Beta, even though it’s an Air Application, this is definitely one application to check out.
Check it: Skimmer
Fallon also has some other neat work here.
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