Widgeo launches first “Widget”, Beta Launch in a few weeks

Singaporean start-up Widgeo.us announced in their February newsletter that they have launched their first widget - t.widgeo.us. This widget serves the purpose of allowing users to update multiple twitter accounts within a single user interface. The aesthetics are fantastic and, like most twitter applications, have a simple and intuitive interface.

I do question the number of people who has multiple twitter accounts because the purpose which Twitter was created for is to allow friends to keep track of the user’s activities and hence updating on different accounts simply do not make sense. This being said, there are some exceptions like the screen shot above where the user represents several organizations and wishes to separate each account.

Another major deficiency that this widget has is that you can only update your accounts but not read the feeds from them which is a huge part of twitter. This widget will do great if there are options to click the account and the latest messages would appear in the UI. Also, such an application will work even better if it was an Adobe AIR application which you can launch from your desktop.

In their newsletter, Widgeo has also mentioned that they will be launching the beta-version of their platform in the Middle of March even though this would be kept private and not open to the public. According to the company’s blog, this platform would “allow people to build tools which unify multiple communication channels into one central core.” This description sounds rather bold but audacious goals seems to be a common trait amongst successful start-ups.

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