Desktop alerts on Breaking news delivered to your desktop.
Twitter/FriendFeed desktop client Alert Thingy just released version 1.3 of the software.
Other changes that have been made in the 2.0 release include the ability to play audio and video files inside Outlook, a desktop toast alert tool for high priority items and a number of stability and deployment improvements.
Users are getting very used to using desktop clients (Twitterific, Alert Thingy, Twhirl, etc)., IM, SMS, and other interfaces to talk to Twitter.
None of that data is particularly useful, since so much of the action on Twitter occurs via mobile phones, instant messaging and desktop clients like Alert Thingy, MySocial24x7 and Twhirl.
Those alerts can be delivered in a variety of ways, including via desktop applications, email, mobile alerts, and pop-up alerts.
Twhirl, recently acquired by Seesmic, has emerged as the leading desktop client for Twitter, and Alert Thingy launched days ago on the newly released FriendFeed API.
Result: Home security CCTV systems that can be accessed remotely, alerts to your desktop and phone.
Several levels of subscription access, email news alerts and a desktop news ticker are available.
In addition, if you try to visit the site from a desktop web browser, you're alerted to the fact that the app is for tablets only, and pointed over to The Economist instead.
