K A Social Media

Yahoo! Sideline. (http://sideline.yahoo.com/)

Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest. Watch a video demonstration.

Sideline is an open source application released under the BSD license. The first beta release is out and the code is hosted on github. If you experience difficulties with the Flash “Install” badge on this site you can find the manual download here.

Follow Sideline on Twitter.

How K. A. is it?

This product has been amazing for me so far. Before, for Twitter, I was using a program called Tweetbeep (http://www.tweetbeep.com), which has been great so far for me, but there’s only an option to receive updates either every hour or every day. Well, I was finding out receiving an e-mail every hour was filling up my inbox rather quickly, and every day was too far apart.

Once I downloaded this, and set it up (which was super easy to do) then I was able to get “live” updates on different keywords I have set up. And I’ve been able to check them when i want to check them and the program can be open in the background and not taking away from anything.

Rating: 5 out of 5