I have talked before about some of the Major League Baseball apps on this blog before.  They have added another application to their arsenal this week: MLB.com OnBase.  This application is built on Adobe AIR and is one slick little app.

When you first start the app you can choose your favorite team or teams or you can flag your favorite players.  It then uses these settings to notify you of any news or updates involving your selections.  So for example, you will get an alert when the lineups are set for your teams games.  There are also alerts for in game notifications.  When a team scores in a game that involves one of your flagged teams, an alert pops up informing you that a run or runs scored and how they scored.  It also displays the scoreboard of your team’s games.

Twitter is also an integral part of the application.  Part of the news feeds involving your favorite teams or players , are tweets that are found matching your selections.  This updates every few minutes.  You can also hook up your Twitter account and send tweets directly from the application.

I have always believed that Major League Baseball is at the forefront of internet related technology in the pro sports.  Their MLB.tv offering is the best streaming technology in sports, bar none.  With the release of this application they continue to be the front runners in cool technology.

It appears as though Facebook is finally getting the hint about it’s API. The company announced today they have released the Open Stream API. This new API will allow developers to take advantage of all kinds of Facebook features. This same openess has worked wonders for Twitter, and I am sure Facebook is hoping for the same. In my opinion Facebook was forced to do this in order to keep up Twitter, as their service is growing like a wildfire every day. I for one, have stopped using Facebook on a regular basis due to this. I do not like having to log into their website (which is slow) to interact with certain features. I love Twitter because I have a plethora of desktop and cell phone apps to choose from.

On a related note Facebook has also announced an application built for Adobe AIR. Now I can’t wait for TweetDeck to update and use all the new Facebook features!

TweetDeck has announced a new beta version of their AIR product that introduces Facebook integration. I downloaded it yesterday and have to say that so far it appears promising. You can now view status updates from your friends on Facebook directly in TweetDeck. When posting a new message you can choose to send it to Twitter, Facebook or both. Just remember that this release is a beta release, so use at your own risk.

Below is a quick screenshot of what the new message area looks like (notice the checkboxes for Facebook and Twitter).

Yesterday I came across another wonderful Adobe AIR app.  It's called Queued and provides an interface to your Netflix account.  The application is provided free from SitePen, Inc. and uses a combination of Adobe AIR, the Dojo Toolkit and the Netflix API.  Queued will allow you to view your queue, add movies, rate movies and launch on demand movies.  It's an impressive application and I would recommend checking it out if you are a Netflix subscriber.

I would also like to point out they also allow you to download the source code!  So you can open the hood and see how this application was put together.

Download Queued here.

Ever been on Criagslist before?  I am sure most everyone has by now, at least to browse some listings.  It has one of the most minimalist designs of any popular site in history.  If you have ever wished for a nicer looking layout for the site, look no further.  CL Desktop is an Adobe AIR app that wraps Craigslist into your desktop.  I have not tried the application out yet, but it appears you can save searches to run again as favorites.  Another plus is that it allows you to view the pictures associated with a post on the listing screen.  This eliminates the click to a listing just to see a photo.  If anyone has tried this yet let me know what you think.