For the last couple of days I’ve been playing around with the newest version of the Trillian client coming from Cerulean Studios. The new version of Trillian is in beta and is code-named Astra.

Taking a quick look at the screen shot above, let me highlight the different areas I have numbered above.

Twitter integration – the display of the timeline itself could be improved. I’d envision a panel that would slide out from behind the contact list that would display the timeline of events in a fashion similar to twhirl or other twitter client.
E-mail Integration – each of the email accounts …read more

What do you do when you accidentally announce something wasn’t quite ready for primetime? If you’re AOL, you stay your very angry that some of your employees released some search information. If you’re Microsoft, you just pull the post down off of one of your employee’s blogs real quick. The problem with the latter is that search engines are just too quick nowadays and Bloglines grabbed a cache of the page before it could be removed.
Either way, we’re hearing that Microsoft is working on an online back-up system called Live Drive (http://www.everyjoe.com/2006/08/15/im-getting-tired-of-windows-live/, or maybe it is and someone else is …read more