Mixero
Encyclopedia
Mixero is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter
and Facebook
client application . It replaces the conventional Twitter
web interface and allows users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is compatible with the most popular desktop operating system
s including Microsoft Windows
, Mac OS X
and Linux
. An iPhone
version was released on the 14th October 2009.
Facebook integration was added on the 3rd December 2009. Mixero allows users to customize, filter and organize all their twitter activity .
systems like Twitter
is information overload that clutters the desktop and renders such services unusable. Mixero was the first application to respond to the need of reducing the noise with features like ActiveList, Filtering, Contexts.
Another step towards reducing the noise is Mixero' attitude to screen space consumption. While most of the Twitter
clients try to consume as much space as possible to present data, Mixero can be turned into Avatar Mode that effectively minimizes the application to just the users avatar and the channel icons. This little icon cluster stays on top of the desktop and shows when new items are received.
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
and Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
client application . It replaces the conventional Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
web interface and allows users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is compatible with the most popular desktop operating system
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
s including Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
, Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
and Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
. An iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
version was released on the 14th October 2009.
Facebook integration was added on the 3rd December 2009. Mixero allows users to customize, filter and organize all their twitter activity .
'Reducing the noise' concept
All the main features and tools in Mixero revolve around the concept of 'Reducing the noise' introduced by Erick Schonfeld in 2008. He noted that one of the main problems of LifestreamingLifestreaming
The term lifestream was coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter at Yale University in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life; every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream...
systems like Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
is information overload that clutters the desktop and renders such services unusable. Mixero was the first application to respond to the need of reducing the noise with features like ActiveList, Filtering, Contexts.
Another step towards reducing the noise is Mixero' attitude to screen space consumption. While most of the Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
clients try to consume as much space as possible to present data, Mixero can be turned into Avatar Mode that effectively minimizes the application to just the users avatar and the channel icons. This little icon cluster stays on top of the desktop and shows when new items are received.