Today, Seesmic, the developers of one of the most popular Twitter clients, unveiled a web-based version of Seesmic, as well as a new version of the Seesmic desktop. The web-based version of Seesmic basically recreates most of the features that are currently available in the desktop application. A few features like groups and support for multiple accounts are currently missing (though they will be added soon), but the web app also includes a number of features the desktop client doesn’t currently have, including a specialized view for direct messages and syncing persistent searches with a user’s Twitter profile. Among other things, the new version of the desktop app now sports a Twhirl-like single-column view, the ability to hide the sidebar, and it uses less memory and CPU power.

Seesmic on the Web

Maybe the niftiest feature of the Seesmic web app is its new messages view. Here, you can overview of all your private DM’s, which are then displayed like IM conversations. If you open up multiple conversations, they will appear in separate columns, making it easy to keep track of more than one discussion at a time. For now, this view only works for direct messages, but it would also be great if Seesmic expanded this for @replies as well.

One feature we really liked, and one that we hope more desktop apps will recreate (including the Seesmic Desktop), is Seesmic’s ability to sync persistent searches back and forth with your Twitter profile on Twitter’s own site. Whenever you add a search on Twitter, it will appear in Seesmic and vice versa. Read more…

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