MetroTwit Show, the Twitter visualizer

It’s nice when the Twitter visualizer you’ve always wanted materialises out of the blue in such style. MetroTwit Show has just filled a large void where users with large displays and TV’s yearning to consume auxiliary information such as twitter trends & topics at a glance.  It is built on Silverlight 4 and installs instantly on your desktop with a single-click on its homepage.

Currently it allows read-only viewing of Twitter trends & searches. This is just the first release with many more features expected to be added. No doubt this app will start appearing on large displays near you.

Pokki, a new HTML5 based App Store

Pokki is a brand new app store for Windows (coming soon for Mac) that resides in the taskbar. Currently offering 8 elegant apps which include Facebook, Twitter and GMail. These apps are built using HTML5, CSS and Javascript. With the release of the SDK today everyone can start making there own creations immediately.

Currently in its beta incarnation Pokki’s framework is provided free of charge for anyone wanting to develop quick and light web applications that function outside the browser.

MetroTwit, the Twitter client for Windows

From its inception last year, MetroTwit has matured into a fully featured Twitter client. It is in part designed and developed by Long Zheng of istartedsomething.com fame. The interface is inspired by Microsoft’s Metro design language which in turn makes it a joy to read tweets.  It is by far the best Twitter client I have used on Windows and with development speeding ahead it is likely to remain the Twitter client of choice.