As many of our friends and work colleagues are connected to different social networking sites, it's too tempting to start a new account, with another site, just to keep in touch. This makes keeping in touch with your work colleagues more difficult. At work, we need to do more than chat. We need to share projects, files and 'to do' information. You can't do that by connecting to more than one business networking site.

AlertThingy 3 is a free cross-platform tool that enables you to follow people from various social and business networking sites, from one interface. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Huddle, Basecamp and many others. Better still, you can follow the latest news by subscribing to news feeds and integrating these in to your feed. As AlertThingy is based on Adobe Air, you can download and use the same application on either your Windows or Mac computer.

AlertThingy link.

11 Feb 2009