Soroush Javidi

Something that I had found some time ago was SSB applications. SSB stands for Site Specific Browser, and is basically an Internet browser dedicated to a single website. For example, You could have an SSB on your desktop, which when you double-click, takes you directly to your email account (say, Gmail), and no where else. It's not meant for surfing the Internet, but dedicated to one website that you frequent.

I'm not a big user of SSBs, I use one for Remember the Milk and now recently Splitweet. I use Fluid.app on Mac, and Mozilla's Prism on Ubuntu Linux. With Fluid, you can assign an icon to your SSB, which then shows up in the Finder and the Dock, should you put it there.

I couldn't find any icons for Splitweet, so quickly created one myself, which you can download on Flickr. I think this is much better than the original pixelated icon that shows up, which is basically the website's favicon. If you are Fluid user, make sure to check out the great Fluid Icons group on Flick, which has a very nice collection of icons for most web apps out there!

What is Splitweet?

I found Splitweet by chance last week. Basically, it is a web app that lets you use multiple Twitter accounts, as well as following certain keywords that are discussed on twitter (they call it 'brand monitor'). Twitter's search is good for this purpose as well, but it's nice to have it consolidated in one single view. I've been very happy with it so far!

As a comparison, also check out Hahlo, which is meant for mobile phones and Matt, which again lets you post to multiple Twitter accounts. The design of Hahlo is for the smaller screen of mobile phones (such as the iPhone), so works great as an SSB sitting in a corner of the screen. If you don't use multiple Twitter accounts, or don't want to follow any keywords, then Hahlo + Fluid is a great combination. The wonderful web designer Dan Cederholm seems to agree as well!

Do you use SSBs? What web apps do you use it with?

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