During this morning’s keynote at PDC09 – Seesmic Founder Loic Le Meur joined Ray Ozzie on stage to make a very important announcement regarding the future of Seesmic. Seesmic focuses on bringing many of your favorite social networking services like Twitter and Facebook together into a single application so you don’t have to bounce between those services. They are best known for their Abobe AIR Twitter and Facebook app called Seesmic Desktop today.

While on stage with Ray, Loic announced the launch of Seesmic for Windows.

With the vast majority of Seesmic users coming from PCs running Windows, the move to the Windows Platform made sense. By moving development to focus primarily on the Windows Platform, it will allow Seesmic to focus on providing the best user experience to the majority of its users. This includes addressing issues with performance. Loic also announced that Seesmic for Windows will allow developer to write plug-ins that can run securely within the application.

As part of today’s announcement, Seesmic is releasing a Preview release of Seesmic for Windows. Seesmic for Windows is Seesmic’s brand new desktop client developed on the Windows Platform. They have been working aggressively to have this Preview release ready for you today.

Seesmic for Windows provides an excellent way to manage tweeting on Twitter. It helps you stay on top of what your friends are tweeting and what the latest trends on Twitter are.

Seesmic for Windows provides a “tabbed” UI (left-side of the app) that lets you filter your Twitter “stream” of tweets. You can filter by account as Seesmic for Windows supports having multiple Twitter accounts signed in, searches and Twitter’s latest new feature called lists. Everything can be filtered into specific columns. You can drag the columns into whatever position you like and scroll right to left to view your columns. And the new posting bar in Seesmic for Windows makes it easy to switch from one account to multiple accounts.

I’ve had the pleasure of using Seesmic for Windows for the last few weeks now and it works great! I’m currently managing 2 Twitter accounts, a few lists and use the Twitter Search capabilities track tweets on Windows 7, Windows Live, and more. I am very excited about what’s to come for Seesmic for Windows. You can expect to see Seesmic for Windows take advantage of the Windows Taskbar enhancements in Windows 7 and when Twitter adds support for dynamic location, it will use Windows 7’s Location and Sensor Platform!

Seesmic for Windows was released to all Team Seesmic members during the keynote this morning. If you are a Team Seesmic member, you should have an email from Loic in your inbox with a link to download Seesmic for Windows. If you’re not a Team Seesmic member, don’t worry. Join Team Seesmic to download the Seesmic for Windows Preview and receive the latest and greatest builds. You can also head on over to Seesmic.com right now and sign-up to receive Seesmic for Windows when it becomes available as well. Give Seesmic for Windows a spin and be sure to follow @windowsblog and @mswindows!

Loic also demonstrated Seesmic ported over into Silverlight and running as a Silverlight-based app. Seesmic is also excited about the possibilities Silverlight will provide in regards to eventually creating a cross platform application.

For more on today’s announcements from Day 1 of PDC09, click here. 

UPDATE: For more information on Seesmic’s announcements today including Seesmic for Windows, check out Loic Le Meur’s blog post!

PDC 2009 takes place at the LA Convention Center on November 17^th, 18^th, and 19^th. As I wrote before, The Professional Developers Conference is the one event each developer has to attend. Windows 7 will become generally available (GA) to the public on October 22nd. With the pre-release veil of secrecy lifted, during this year's PDC we can dive deep (very deep) into Windows 7 to extend our understanding of how Windows 7 works and, even more importantly, how developers can take advantage of all the great new improvements and features Windows 7 has to offer.

Just in case you missed my previous announcement, there is a FREE Windows 7 (seminar) Boot Camp led by top Microsoft Windows experts like Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan. Then, during the PDC proper, we’ll have several deep-dive Windows 7 sessions.

During this year's PDC, we’ll host the Windows 7 Developer Center. The Windows 7 Developer Center gives you the opportunity to test your application on Windows 7, identify and solve problems with a group of consultants, and eventually get your application Logo-certified. Applications can be loaded onto a secure Windows 7 test platform in a private developer lab environment for Logo testing and submission. Our Windows Applications Developer Consultants can also help with Windows Compatibility questions or offer specific guidance for how you can make your application shine on Windows 7. You can pre-book a time slot right away, book a time when you get to the PDC, or just stop by Room 504/505. And guess what? It is all free; all you need to do is register.

Registration

You can pre-register for a 1-hour timeslot in the lab as outlined below. You can also register upon arrival at PDC09 by signing up at the reception station located in Room 504/505, or just stop by to talk about developing applications for Windows 7.

Monday 11/16	10:00 am	11:00 am	1:00 pm	2:00 pm	3:00 pm	4:00 pm
Tuesday 11/17	11:00 am	1:00 pm	2:00 pm	3:00 pm	4:00 pm	5:00 pm
Wednesday 11/18	11:00 am	1:00 pm	2:00 pm	3:00 pm	4:00 pm	5:00 pm
Thursday 11/19	8:30 am	9:30 am	10:30 am	11:30 am	1:30 pm	2:30 pm

 

Getting Started

Logo Test - To help maximize your time in the lab at PDC, we are asking that you run the Logo test and submit the .xml result report to our team for review prior to the event. Our consultants will analyze your results and prepare a report to review with you on-site at PDC.

VeriSign & WinQual IDs – In order to submit your product for Windows 7 Logo, you will need to obtain both of these credentials. Once obtained, you will be able to work directly with a Microsoft consultant through the submission process while on-site at PDC. (More info here - https://winqual.microsoft.com/.)

Follow these simple steps to register and prepare for PDC 2009:

1. Email srglabs@microsoft.com with 3 timeslots in order of preference from those listed above.

2. Download the Logo toolkit from MS Connect and follow the instructions for testing.

3. Send the .xml result report generated by the Logo toolkit to srglabs@microsoft.com for analysis.

4. Sign up for VeriSign & WinQual IDs that will be required for Logo submission by visiting https://winqual.microsoft.com/.

Additional Resources

• For general questions contact srglabs@microsoft.com

• For questions and more details about the Windows 7 Logo Program visit MS Connect

This is a great opportunity to prepare your applications for Windows 7, but there is limited availability so be sure to register early to get your preferred time slot.

You can learn about Windows 7 using the Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers or by viewing Windows 7 videos on Channel 9