Mixero
Mixero is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter and Facebook client application. It replaces the conventional Twitter web interface and allows users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is compatible with the most popular desktop operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. An iPhone version was released on the 14th October 2009. Facebook integration was added on the 3rd December 2009.
'Reducing the noise' concept
All the main features and tools in Mixero revolve around the concept of 'Reducing the noise' introduced by Erick Schonfeld in 2008. He noted that one of the main problems of Lifestreaming systems like Twitter is information overload that clutters the desktop and renders such services unusable. Mixero was the first application to respond to the need of reducing the noise with features like ActiveList, Filtering, Contexts.
Another step towards reducing the noise is Mixero' attitude to screen space consumption. While most of the Twitter clients try to consume as much space as possible to present data, Mixero can be turend into Avatar Mode that effictivly minimizes the application to just the users avatar and the channel ICONS. This little icon cluster stays on top of the desktop and shows when new items are received.