Nambu: Beautiful Microblogging Client

This post doesn’t fit the usual content of this blog but I think the application definitely deserves a mention here. Anyway, I am talking about a new microblogging client I came across yesterday: Nambu. Yeah, another client in an already crowded market. Though Nambu is a little different to other clients because it is a real Mac OS X application while most other clients are cross platform ones, thanks to Adobe AIR.

Currently, Nambu only supports Twitter (multiple accounts) but forthcoming releases will also support Identi.ca, FriendFeed, and Ping.fm. At least those services are already part of the settings menu.

Well, here are some screenshots, so you’ll get a better idea of what Nambu looks like:

This is the standard view of Nambu. Clean and slick interface without much distraction. However the next view is currently my favourite one, the sidebar view:

I have added some descriptions, so hopefully they make sense.
As you can see tr.im (URL shortener) and pic.im (image upload) are integrated, groups are available, and even sent and received links are collected. If you click on hashtags a new search will be created automatically and if you click a member’s name you can view their profile in a separate window. From there you can follow them, see their tweets and followers.

If you are using TweetDeck and are already accustomed to its multi column view, well, Nambu has it as well:

I will test Nambu for a few more days. Maybe it will even replace TweetDeck. Although still in beta, it looks very promising already.