Quick Mini-Reviews: TweetDeck, Wink, CamStudio, VCOrganizer, DriveImage XML

You certainly get your money’s worth at TechVentureGeek! Here are 5 product mini-reviews in the space of a single post – and most of them are freeware!

First, we’ve switched over to TweetDeck for our tweeting.

As speculated previously, HootSuite came up with a monetization scheme, and that scheme didn’t work for this casual tweeter.

So, we jumped over to TweetDeck, and couldn’t be happier.

The prior reason for staying with HootSuite was that it has a lighter footprint. It is 100% JavaScript & AJAX.

TweetDeck, on the other hand, is an Adobe AIR RIA app. OK, so the overhead isn’t so heavy that we really care. It works great.

We’ve put all of our Twitter accounts into it as well as some Facebook pages.

Next, we’ll experiment with specialized, filtered Twitter feeds to isolate – without unfollowing – a few of the automated/media feeds.

TweetDeck is free, so long as you don’t mind using Adobe AIR, which is an installed application framework (like Silverlight, etc.)

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Exploration of the Inevitable: “Sentiment Mining”

Sitting here, listening to “Der Kommissar” and thinking about the future.

I haven’t had time to blog recently, with the birth of our second child, but I’m just going to dive back in with an “Exploration of the Inevitable”

First up, automated sentiment trading.

Precipitated by the real-time fire hose of data that is now hitting our screens, cellphones, tablets and retinal implants, AI is back in vogue.

Of course, AI doesn’t look anything like we thought it would. It looks more like a warehouse that thinks for itself, solving a tiny domain problem incredibly effectively, and making money in the process.

Or – just maybe – a Jeopardy robot.

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