App Spotlight: KiteDesk aggregates your cloud accounts and social media

March 26, 2013

Gmail. Dropbox. Facebook. Twitter. If you're like many busy business folks, you're frequently bopping back and forth between these and other cloud/social-media services. And if you have multiple accounts for any of them, the hassles only increase. KiteDesk aggregates all your cloud and social services under one roof. That means you need to use only one iOS and/or Web app to view all your feeds, email messages, files, contacts, and more. I did most of my testing on an iPad, though you can just as easily sign in via your Web browser. There's no cost to use KiteDesk (and no advertising that I can see, so I'm not sure what the revenue model is here); all you do is give permission for it to access one or more Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and/or Yahoo accounts. Obviously the more accounts you add, the more practical KiteDesk becomes. The interface lets you switch between "streams" (i.e. everything from your social networks), messages (of the email variety), people, events, and documents. For any given category you select, you see everything from all of your connected accounts. That's the "aggregator" part of the equation. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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