Flutter is a light-weight iGoogle Twitter client and is the first of a number of small personal development projects I intend to release in the coming weeks and months.

It is offered as an alternative to the fairly heavy-weight user experiences offered by many of the existing iGoogle-based solutions. All tweets, including replies and direct messages are re-threaded into a single feed to avoid switching between multiple tabs:

As the post title suggests, Flutter is currently in beta and, while I encourage everyone to give it a try, do expect to find a few pesky little bugs. I look forward to hearing about all such occurrences and will endeavour to fix them as soon as humanly possible. (Contact details can be found on the about page.)

Give it a shot: Add Flutter to iGoogle

Not an iGoogle user? Check out the standalone version.

On Authentication

Currently authentication is performed by passing users’ credentials directly through a POST request to Twitter via the server hosting jbmorley.co.uk. I am well aware this is exceptionally in-elegant; it merely serves as an interim solution until OAuth support has been implemented so please bear with me.

The Future

Suggestions and recommendations are always gratefully received. I am personally considering providing TweetDeck-like behaviour in the Canvas view, but this will require some internal rearchitecting so it’s some ways off right now…

• Feeling rather sleepy this morning. Happy it’s the weekend! #
• Getting the hint from @mikerhodes. Thinking it might be time to get out of bed. #
• Seem to have set @mikerhodes and @rosechild playing around with fish on iGoogle. People have an amazing capacity to procrastinate. #
• MobileMe seems to be wibbling this morning. Recursively adding entries to my calendar and duplicating my contacts is not helpful. #
• The Twitter widget in Netvibes is quite cute. Still not as lively or powerful as Flutter mind. #