Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Ziibii floats updates to your iPhone
Do you like keeping up with friends on social networks? Do you have an iPhone? If so, you might be interested in a new social networking application for the iPhone called Ziibii. Ziibii [iTunes link] brings an innovative approach to viewing your social networking sites and RSS feeds -- without ever leaving this one app. Ziibii allows you to see friend updates, videos, and photos from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube.Ziibii's killer feature is its "River" feature, which depicts friend updates, photos, videos, and RSS feed headlines "floating" down a river on tiny rafts. You can interact with the river and rafts with gestures. Moving too fast? Move your finger left or right on the screen. You can even make the river flow in the opposite direction by swiping your finger against flow.
Rafts too close together? Pick it up and move it. If you tap on a raft, you will be presented with a full screen view of the update and get the option to share that update via email or Twitter. If you get sea sick with River view, you can also give list view a try, which stacks updates on top of each other; swiping right to left loads more updates.
Ziibii comes pre-loaded with some good blogs (TUAW is listed under the "iPhone Stuff" section), and you can also add your own RSS feeds via the "My Feeds" setting.
Ziibii has a very nice user interface, and allows you to quickly see all of your friend updates in a unique fashion. However, we would like to see an option to post updates and photos to Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. We would also like to see support for Pownce and Digg, among others. With the price of free, Ziibii is a must-have application for anyone that uses social networks. You can download Ziibii from the iTunes App Store.
Gallery: Ziibii for iPhone
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joey Altobelli said 3:42PM on 11-21-2008
I was part of a research study that introduced me to this app about 4 months ago. Wile i was testing the app i couldn't understand why anyone would want to buy it. There's way more features than when i was asked to test it, in beta. it could actually end up being a cool app.
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MJH said 3:52PM on 11-21-2008
Plus the cool thing is you don't even have to buy it...it's free!
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Daniel said 7:24AM on 11-22-2008
I don't like this app because I don't see any interface advantages to a standard rss feed reader like Newsstand. On the contrary: I find it distracting to see my feeds "going down a river".
I'm not going to use it....
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Jash Sayani said 10:35AM on 11-22-2008
Thanks for posting about this app Cory. I love this one... RSS, Facebook, Twitter - all in one app. Seems interesting...
Will try it out.
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Rik said 3:52PM on 11-23-2008
Here's another iPhone app I'd rather see as a desktop widget (or a Chumby widget) than on my iPhone. If I'm going to turn on the iPhone, turn on its WiFi or 3G radio, and download the amount of data needed for this app, it's going to be because I'm actively looking for something while I'm on the go - I likely don't have the time to spare to just look at what some other people I'm likely only sporadically in contact with are doing. Now, when I'm at my computer and have 'important work' to do - that's when I want this kind of distraction.
Cute rafts, tho'.
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