We know that people use social networking sites to keep in touch with theirfriends and family. For business users, the whole ?social networking phenomenahas been slow to get started. Most likely as business users need integrationwith their existing applications, needs to track the tasks of other users, aswell as have group discussions and share project files.

This requires a lot of bandwidth and, like any social networking environment,there's little point joining one if your key clients are using an alternative.This can be really frustrating as it means you have to attempt to connect tovarious networking sites to keep up with the latest information.

AlertThingy is a small tool that enables you to receive and read the latestthoughts and notes from other users, irrespective of their social networkingchoice - this could be Facebook or Twitter for private use or Huddle orBaseCampHQ for business users. AlertThingy can connect to various networks andpull in any notes or messages sent to you from other users.

In addition, AlertThingy supports news feeds, so you can keep abreast of thelatest news from various sources.

Note that this is a cross-platform tool and will support any operating systemthat Adobe Air supports.