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Shared information, linked data. It’s something the leaders of this new world believe in. It’s one of the fundamental concepts that various social networks like Wikipedia and Flickr have used to create such impactful enterprises and it’s even one of the cornerstones of President Barack Obama’s presidency. Make information as open and accessible as possible. And it’s within this concept of openness that a company like Facebook can rise above and beyond every major competitor…

While other social networks constructed fences around their neighborhoods, Facebook was opening up their core to the developers of the world so that they could build Facebook specific applications to harness the power of an already gigantic social scene. Aside from it’s other bells and whistles, this very concept is what makes the iPhone the unrivaled hand held device that it is. While other phones struggle to make browsing and surfing online a manageable experience the iPhone and it’s app store have already created thousands of applications designed to make living and connecting with others completely seamless.

So seamless in fact that as of late I’ve begun to feel a little overwhelmed by how much management one must commit to maintaining such networks. Today even, I was discussing with a co-worker how tiresome it can be trying to keep up, which is why I am very excited to share with you a new, and what I believe to be a revolutionary application called Skimmer. A product from the mind of Creative Director Chris Wiggins, designed by one of my absolute favorite Interactive Designers Andy Gugle and developed by a company called Sierra Bravo.

“Skimmer is an Adobe AIR-based desktop application that serves as a dashboard for a person’s social networks, saving people the time and hassle of manually checking Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger and YouTube by consolidating their feeds into a single stream of real-time, relevant content on the desktop.”

But here’s the icing on the cake… if you’re in need a website all you have to do is copy and paste some code into an html document and boom, all your media, videos and status updates are pulled into a website that can live on your own server… amazing. I seriously have to give it up to the folks at Fallon for producing such a beautiful and functional application. I’m really, really looking forward to where this idea evolves to (perhaps some integration with Image Spark? Wink, Wink).

This may not be a useful application for everyone, but if you’re anything like me then you can thank the team over at Fallon for throwing us all a lifesaver.

Final words… go get some.

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