A few thoughts…
- I experience bugs from time to time with Identi.ca as well. Initially I hadn’t planned on including Laconi.ca services, so as an afterthought, it probably isn’t an integrated as I would like it to be. That will be resolved in a future release though. I’d like every Laconi.ca instance out there to be supported in the exact same way Twitter is supported.

- I absolutely agree with how powerful and under-used search is in the micro-blogging world, and that was one of the main motivations for building Tweenky. I love Search.Twitter.com, but it lacks the client functionality I want, so Tweenky fills in the gap. It’s especially been a lot of fun with recent events such as the conventions and Gustav to watch the conversations flow through Tweenky in near real-time.

- The one feature that was missing from your review was the track/notification capability. Now, admittedly that has been really spotty lately as it is resource intensive, but when it is running, it’s the coolest feature IMO. I’ve set up a few queries to be tracked via email, so now anytime someone mentions things like “@derek” or “tweenky”, it gets sent to my email/IM right away, so I don’t even have to be in front of my tweet client to see conversations. It’s actually how I found out about this blog post. =)

Tweenky is still pretty immature and over the next month I hope to both stabilize the system and expand its features.

Again, great review!
Derek Gathright
derek at tweenky.com

P.S. If any of your readers want to check it out, they can use the invite code “chewbocka”. =)