Thought this may assist some of the participants in my presentation tomorrow.
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I loved it when I found Jane’s Top 100, and got to do a bit of an inventory on how hip and ‘with-it’ I was! Seriously though, it gave me a chance to quickly review a range of popular tools and see where my knowledge gaps were.
One thing – this list features Twhirl as the preferred desktop client for receiving Twitter updates (unless I missed something). I recently changed from Twhirl to TweetDeck, and with extra room, categories and better design, Tweetdeck is far superior, imho.