As such, Streamy doesn't merely act as a dashboard for all of your social media sites; it also allows you to create a custom dashboard for every site, offering a heads-up view of what's going on at each individual site based on what's important to you.

Finally, Streamy makes it easy to post a status update to all of your sites in one fell swoop: You simply click the 'What are you doing?' status box that's always visible on the right side of the page and tick the check box of each service where you want your update to post.

Unlike the other two tools discussed here, both of which are Web services, is a desktop application. In fact, , built from the same open-source code that powers the popular Firefox browser.

The difference between Firefox and Flock? Flock is a "social Web browser," meaning that it's designed specifically to integrate seamlessly with over 20 social media sites, including Delicious, , Flickr, MySpace, YouTube, and even your Gmail account (see Flock's for more details.)