A new Air app for Lifestreaming was launched today called Skimmer. I’ve only played with it for a short while but it has a pretty diverse set of features. It can import your feeds from several services including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and blog.

It will import status updates and allow you to reply and post both to Twitter and Facebook separately. You can also filter all your imported feed data by keyword, service, or friends lists from the main interface. There are 3 different types of views available for the feed which offer some unique differences from other clients I have used.

There are also dedicated interfaces for your Flickr and YouTube accounts that are presented in a great looking interface. In fact the interface and presentation throughout is one of the things that makes this app standout. Besides allowing you to view your imported photos and videos, the app offers the ability to upload to Flickr and YouTube as well with a fancy drag and drop interface.

Probably the most unique and gorgeous feature as well is the profile mode which creates an awesome content mashup of your data that you can customize and even embed as a widget on your own blog. This feature alone is worth the price of admission. So as you can see the app is pretty different and offers a combination of features that I haven’t seen before.

I only skimmed the surface (pun intended) and I really need to dig in more. There is already quite a bit of coverage on the app which I have linked to below. I just wanted to provide some quick info. In my short time with the app I recommend you download now and check it out. Well worth it just to play with the different and wonderful interface.

Read about Skimmer elsewhere

• Skimmer brings your social streams to the desktop – Webware
• Skimmer: Visual Desktop App for Tracking Your Favorite Social Sites – Mashable
• Skimmer Brings a Sleek New Look to Social Browsing – ReadWriteWeb
• Fallon Launches ‘Life-streaming’ Tool – AdWeek

Let’s just say that when I first signed up for Twitter, I was less than impressed. Besides the cool SMS nature of the service, which I wasn’t using, it just seemed like a very limited group IM web platform to me. It didn’t seem like a very useful service to me either, since I basically had to visit my profile page and refresh the web browser to get updates.

Because Twitter provides a very robust API, there has been a recent slew of of client applications written to take advantage of the site as a platform. Fast forward to a few months ago when reader Tommaso told me about a Twitter client called Twhirl. There have been several Twitter clients written using the new Adobe Air application platform. I have tried a couple but really feel that Twhirl is the leader among them. Since discovering this program I have become an avid user of Twitter. In fact I think I’ve started to use it a bit too much and think it has now surpassed the amount of time I spend in Google Reader.

So over the weekend I had an epiphany that the same limitations that kept me from using Twitter in the beginning (the need to visit a web page or refresh my browser) was also the same issue impeding the ability for me to follow my friends Lifestreams. Sure there’s always having the stream published as an RSS feed, but that just isn’t very sexy.

I was even able to find an Adobe Air RSS Feed reader called Fresh and tested it by importing my FriendFeed RSS feed. The results just weren’t what I was looking for. So I decided to to take matters into my own hand in the form of a hypothetical application. I created a visual mashup to represent what it would look like if I could get my FriendFeed updates using a client like Twhirl.

I bring to you LifeWhirl v.0.1

Yea…that’s what I’m talking about! And this should not be a very difficult application to produce. I really think that the first service to give me such a client will own me as a user. Not to mention diminish any level of productivity I currently am able to achieve

Let’s see if we see something like this soon.