A while ago, as you may recall, Guillermo the TweetDeck bird was travelling and decided that we should make TweetDeck available in lots more languages. Always ready for a challenge, and knowing the dangers of upsetting Guillermo, we set about making this happen. Conrad took control and organised a crack squad of volunteers to help out with the translations, whilst our development team donned their thinking caps and set to work on all the necessary technical bits and bobs to make it work.

And now, after months of hard work from everyone, we are proud to present phase one of the project - the TweetDeck Localisation Preview.

This new version of TweetDeck allows you to use Desktop TweetDeck in any of the following languages:

Fantastic job on the translations! Who do I thank?

This whole process wouldn't have been possible without our amazing translators. They have worked day and night over the past few months to ensure that TweetDeck is available in their own language and we cannot thank them enough.

An extra special thanks goes to the language team Leaders:  Shinji Arakawa, Patrick Mackaajj, Reza Hasfinada & José Airosa

Japanese

• Shinji Arakawa
• Mitsuhiro Yoshida
• Tetz Hakoda
• Motoko Takano
• Takamoto Ando
• Yuya Saito

Dutch

• Patrick Mackaajj
• Laura Vermeer
• Maurice van Eynsbergen
• Delmar Sumter
• Tom Verbeek

Indonesian

• Reza Hasfinada
• Joni Liu

Portuguese

• José Airosa
• Oscar Marcelo
• Bruno Miguel Araújo Bruto da Costa
• Manuel Reis

 

I would like to be a volunteer too, where do I sign?

If you would like to apply to be a volunteer translator, please send an email to localisation@tweetdeck.com with any relevant experience and we will be in touch.

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We're pleased to introduce Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, an exciting new beginning to the way we understand social networking on a mobile platform. Search for Seesmic on the Marketplace and join us for a new mobile adventure.

With Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, you can generate not only quality content, but design the app according to your needs. With a natural and intuitive interface, Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 brings a different flavor to mobile navigation, with a fluid and organized flow of the app within the device itself.

Add your Twitter and Facebook accounts, update your status on multiple Twitter accounts, access user profile, upload links, pictures, or geotag your tweets. You can organize your accounts, searches, lists and trending topics, all in a customized dashboard and navigate through it so easily and interactively.

The dashboard of your choice

When you first open Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, the Home Panorama will win you over! Select  an array of 20 spaces, and swipe through the screens to visit  Trending Topics, Seesmic Directories  and even directly introduce a new Twitter Search.

Accessing Twitter and Cross-Posting Multiple Accounts

You can upload multiple Twitter accounts and not send your update just to one or to all of them at once. Swipe between screens, select the space of your interest and engage with your friends online. View your Home timeline, Replies, Messages, the Lists you follow or are following you, Search and discover UsersProfiles in a unique interface.

Adding your Facebook account

We're excited to also share that Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 also comes with Facebook integration. Whether you choose to view your feed, read comments or see how many Likes your posts receive, Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 makes it  easy! Feel free to comment or Like in a second with Windows Phone 7.

Directories

Find some of the most popular twitter accounts in Sports, News, Music, Celebrities, or Humor. All the topics that can make you a real time trendsetter with the all the details that you know, or a smashing entertainer, select the updates from the Directories section.

Trending Topics

Swipe the screen to the right and you’ll land in Trending Topics: all that’s hot on Twitter, is shown on your Seesmic for Windows Phone 7. You can even save a Trend feed as a single space in the dashboard.

Share updates, photos, location and shorten links

Not only does Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 makes it easy to share with your friends, but it also includes great features like viewing a pictures and locations in-line. With Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 you can send the news to multiple Twitter accounts, take a new picture or select one from your Media Galery, and shorten links to have more character space.

Search

With the Search functionality on Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, don't miss out a thing as you have the proper search tools. When viewing Search from your Twitter account, you can either look for tweets with a certain piece of information, specific usernames or go through nearby tweets. As your interests are on top of anything else, you can save a search in a specific space and assign it to a Twitter account.

Twitter Lists

With Seesmic for Windows Phone 7, you can load and organize your dashboard to include lists from your Twitter accounts. You can view public and personal lists or fallow the ones that have included you.

Settings

Which mobile apps are complete without a powerful Settings view? Why not make the experience on the Windows Phone 7 complete and arrange the app to meet your expectations. In the Settings section, you can select the number of tweets that enter your timeline, chose the media service you desire to upload your pictures and show your Location. You can also view how many friends consider your links valuable, by adding your Bit.ly credentials.

Native and Traditional Retweets

The Windows Phone 7, just as the rest of the Seesmic apps, are developed to meet more than one simple need, but aiming at a complete integration. In the Twitter timeline, you can chose Native Retweet or Quote, if you believe you have more to add.

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It's not about you it's about them. Highlighting others online is a great way to build your brand. This episode belongs to a 30 videos series Build Your Own Brand

The plugin marketplace for Seesmic Desktop 2 has been a huge hit. With over 50 plugins available for download and many more to come, we realize it can get a little difficult to find the plugins that you need. Because of that, we're going to be featuring two plugins each week, in the Featured Plugin Series. This is the first post of the series, so sit back and enjoy the power that is, SD2. 

 

Currently, there are a number of social networks most of us benefit from. But the term "networking" was once exclusively associated in a business environment. With Linkedin's plugin for Seesmic Desktop 2, we're happy to have integrated with the world's largest professional social network. Linkedin's integration with other social networks allows you to connect with your colleagues, create opportunities, and share professional knowledge with your contacts, broadening your connections socially and professionally.

Here's what you can achieve with the LinkedIn plugin in Seesmic Desktop 2: 

• View the Status Updates of your contacts 
• Add Comments to your friends' posts 
• Search a topic on a person on LinkedIn
• View users' Profiles 
• Find out which are the most recent Applications and Jobs 
• Which are the latests contacts your friends have made

This plugin is indeed extremely valuable, having one of the highest install numbers in the marketplace. If you haven't downloaded SD2, you can do so here. To install the LinkedIn plugin, just visit the dedicated section of the marketplace here. 

You don't have to be always nice, but in general if you are positive and don't criticize others online it generally helps your brand. Here is why. This video belong to a 30 videos series "Build Your Own Brand"

Here at Twitter Support, we’re always looking for ways to help people better understand and find value on Twitter. Our few dozen support agents, including myself, work daily with Twitter’s user-base to help enhance and improve their experience of the site. “Twitter Tips” – a series of blog posts aimed at helping you get the most out of Twitter – is an extension of that effort. We’ll explain features that average Twitterers may not know about and open doors to discovery on our site. Through these tips, we hope to enhance your experience of our product. Here it goes!

Tip #1: Browse accounts by interest to quickly discover and follow meaningful sources.
People and sources you care about are on Twitter – you just have to find them. Not always as easy as it seems? Twitter's got several tools that can help. One that we think everyone can appreciate is the lists of suggested users by topic.

Let's say this guy we know named Mark joins Twitter so he can get a quick snapshot of the news each day. To immediately find some of the top news sources on Twitter, he clicks the "Browse Interests" link below his “Who to Follow” suggestions, and is presented with a list of categories. By selecting "News," he quickly finds and follows @TheEconomist, @kingsthings (Larry King), and the New York Times' photography account @nytimesphoto. He's off to a great start, and right away his home timeline begins to fill up with links to news articles, photos of the day, and more. Mission accomplished!

To browse lists of accounts related to your interests, just look for the "Browse interests" button on your new Twitter homepage. Follow whomever strikes your fancy because, awesomely, you can always unfollow them later if it turns out they're not tweeting what you expected.

[Posted by Kristin Hambelton Senior Director of Marketing, Neolane, Inc.] How many times have you received either an email that opened with “Dear [FIRST_LAST]” or a coupon for an irrelevant product even through you’re a loyalty member?  Whether through email, direct mail, website or call center, customers demand a more personalized experience that goes beyond [...]

For AIR developers, it will soon be possible to extend the reach of your applications from smart phones and desktop computers to the living room. If you are innterested in learning more about the emerging TV application market, you will not want to miss the following two sessions presented by our colleagues at Samsung.

Learn about Samsung SDK to distribute your AIR apps to Samsung Smart TVs
Presenter: Jason Han, Product and Service Planning, Samsung Electronics America
Date: Wednesday, 1:30, Room 511C

Distributing and monetizing your AIR applications to millions of Samsung Smart TVs and Internet connected devices is easy with the Samsung SDK. Explore the Samsung SDK, the Samsung Apps, integration with Adobe AIR 2.5 and the app submittal process. Also learn about valuable resources such as test centers which are available to help ensure your success.

Free the TV – The New Opportunity in TV Applications
Presenter: Olivier Manuel, Director of Content
Date: Tuesday, 1:30pm in room 512

Samsung is freeing the TV, with its Samsung Apps line of televisions and Blu-ray players, which can download, install, and run apps. Samsung Apps is built into all Samsung 2010 Blu-ray players, Blu-ray Home Theaters, and most TVs 40’’ and larger. Now distributing content to the $150 billion TV market is as easy as creating an app! And, Samsung is offering $500,000 in cash and prizes for the best looking, most brilliantly conceived, and most functional apps. At this session you’ll learn more about this app contest, the new market for TV applications, and what makes a great TV app.

Don Woodward (Adobe) and Aditya Bansod (Adobe) presented an excellent sneak peak today covering the upcoming Adobe AIR for TV sessions at MAX. If you are interested in learning more about this topic, please be sure to watch the recording of their talk.

To learn more about AIR for TV, please register for the following sessions at Adobe MAX (now  less than one week away):

• Flash Platform for TV: A New Ecosystem on October 25th (Monday) at 03:30PM by Aditya Bansod in Room 513.
• How to Develop AIR for TV Applications on October 25th @ 5:00PM by Don Woodward in Room 511C.
• Hands-on Labs: Developing Your First AIR for TV Application (all three labs are sold out!)