For those who haven’t heard of Piwik before, it’s open source web analytics software which you can host on your own server. It is still in beta, but I am using it for few months now and haven’t faced any problem. You can try it out using the online demo on their site.

According to Piwik blog, two desktop applications for Piwik are now available, made by piwik users. One of them, Piwik Connector is a simple app that shows hourly visits on all your Piwik websites, it would be useful for people who track many sites and don’t want too much stats.

For power users, Desktop Web Analytics provides much more advanced view, it brings all piwik stats to your desktop. Both these software are still early in development, so, you might face couple of problems, for instance, I wasn’t even able to save my profile in Desktop Web Analytics, but the good thing is work is being done on it.

P.S: Forgot to mention, both these apps are developed in Adobe AIR, which means they are available on Linux, Mac & Windows.

TweetDeck has multi-column view, it’s first column display all latest tweets (like “home” on twitter.com). Other columns can contain replies, direct messages, groups (tweets from selected people), searches and latest twitscoop. Of course if you like traditional twitter clients, you can close these other columns, but then you will not be using it’s full potential.

TweetDeck also features a “timeframe” feature, which allows user to filter tweets by time since posted, from last 1 hour to 48 hours, this can be very useful in filtering already read tweets and eliminating noise. All tweets are stored on local database, which also allows user to browse them while offline, any tweet posted or DM posted in that time are posted when back online.

TweetDeck is currently a beta, and even though it’s version is 0.18, it’s very functional and I haven’t encountered any bug yet. So, if you, like me have been overwhelmed by too much information on twitter and want to ease the load, give TweetDeck a try.

Now all that is remaining is to find a good feed aggregator!