Seesmic just released an update to its popular Twitter and Facebook desktop client that gives users enhanced access to their Facebook accounts. Specifically, Seesmic Desktop 0.6 now allows users to set up columns for Facebook Pages and post to these pages if they are administrators. In addition, Seesmic’s Twitter features got a few useful updates, including a ‘reply to all’ feature and a new column for favorites. Seesmic also announced that yfrog will now become the default picture posting service for all Seesmic applications and that the company’s desktop application has now been downloaded over 2.5 million times.
Facebook Pages
Overall, the focus in this new version is clearly on enhancing Seesmic’s Facebook functionality. While most users probably don’t administer Facebook pages, the ability to see select Facebook Pages in Seesmic turns out to be quite useful. From within those columns, you can post comments and like posts. This new feature now also makes it easier for users to cross-post to their Twitter accounts, Facebook profiles, and Facebook Pages.
Twitter Updates: Reply to All, Favorites
On the Twitter side of Seesmic Desktop, the ‘reply to all’ feature is probably the most useful new addition. While this isn’t a new feature (TweetDeck has had it for a while), it’s still quite useful, especially when you want to reply to re-tweeted messages that include more than one username.
In addition, Seemsic Desktop now also features a column for ‘favorites.’ Favorites remain a relatively under-utilized feature on Twitter, so chances are that not a lot of Seesmic users will actually really use of this feature.
