Seesmic Desktop 0.6 adds Facebook Page integration, still bloated

Seesmic, a cross-platform social networking client that connects with Twitter and Facebook, just released a new version, 0.6, that adds the ability to read, manage, like and comment on Facebook Pages. It's nice that Seesmic keeps adding more features, but it's already a bit of a bloated memory hog, and I hope it trims down a bit before it hits version 1.0. It gobbled up nearly 200mb of ram on my MacBook, and Lee reported similar numbers on his Windows machine. On top of Pages, there's also a new favorites column, and a reply-to-all option for Twitter.

Facebook Pages are just one example of Seesmic's tendency to try to be all things to all people. Seesmic has the distinct disadvantage of running on Adobe Air, which, although it makes the app cross-platform and usable by everyone, is notorious for its poor performance.

Successful Twitter clients do one thing, and do it really well. Tweetdeck focuses on groups, Tweetie focuses on simplicity and streamlining, and Bluebird does customizable skins. Seesmic doesn't do any particular thing better than the other apps out there, and I don't know that managing Facebook Pages is the feature that's going to convince someone to switch.

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