The Peculiar Case of Clove
Wow last week was one of the best weeks I’ve had in a while. First I got to review the Droid. Then I got invited to look at Clove. Again all of this is thanks to Albert Maruggi, President of Provident Partners. This post is going to be about Clove and it’s my second attempt at writing it.
Clove is an Adobe Air application being built by a local company call Spice Apps. Yes you are getting the correct picture each of Spice Apps is name after a spice. This is a point that was made to us during the demo.
Clove is not the Normal Adobe Air app though. When you look at it for the first time you will think it’s a native application to either Windows or Mac, although we have only seen the Mac version at this point.
Another interesting part about Clove is its memory footprint. With Tweetdeck you might see a 300 to 600 MB memory footprint. With Seesmic you might see a 65 to 80 MB memory footprint. This is where Clove is starting to differentiate is self more. It’s showing a significant improvement over both Tweetdeck and Seesmic. I still would like to test this out a bit more.
Clove is also making improvements to the ability for third parties to develop on their platform. Where both Tweetdeck and Seesmic are closed development environments Clove is a more open development environment. Spice App accomplishes this by allowing third parties to create plug-ins for Clove. This ability to create your own plug-ins is the most interesting aspect of Clove so to this point.
So are these improvements enough or is it another Tweetdeck or Seesmic in difference packaging? The verdict is still out for me and will be for the foreseeable future.
Other Clove Posts:
Albert Maruggi: Clove a Step Above Tweetdeck Hear Why
Julio Ojeda-Zapata: Clove social-media application may be the anti-Skimmer