• Flipboard - While some social media
• Seesmic - Got more than one social
apps focus on a single service like Facebook or Twitter, Flipboard makes it easy
to keep up to date on many service, from
those two to Instagram, LinkedIn, and
Tumblr, too. Unlike standard social media
apps that just mimic timelines, Flipboard
transforms timelines into lushly illustrated magazine-style pages, making reading updates and tweets more interesting
and appealing than other apps.
• Meebo - Meebo consolidates dozens of
chat services (Facebook, MySpace, AOL
Instant Messanger, Yahoo! Messenger,
and more) into one easy-to-use app. Not
only is the app free, but the interface is
much more streamlined than its competitors, which tend to look cluttered.
Setting up your Meebo account is quick
and easy, and the app supports push
notifications to alert you of new chats
and replies.
networking account, but want to manage them all from a single app? Seesmic
may well be the best choice available.
It supports Twitter, Facebook, and Ping.
fm (which supports LinkedIn, Blogger,
WordPress, and many other services) and
allows you to post to all of them from a
single interface. To make it even more
appealing, it's free! While it lacks some of
the nice lower-level features that official
or dedicated apps do, the trade-off of
being able to manage multiple accounts
in one app more than makes up for it.
• IMO Instant Messenger - The imo Instant Messenger app (Free) is a great way
to keep in touch with friends on multiple
social networks. It supports MSN, AOL
Instant Messenger, Facebook, MySpace,
and more. Imo is also one of the few chat
apps that supports Skype.
May 2015
INSIGHT