Social Media  The 10 Coolest Apollo Apps   Everyone is talking
about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on
the desktop. But the tech-talk means very little to the average
user who simply wants to see some cool stuff. Luckily, there are
developers out there working diligently on producing Apollo
applications, some of which are already fully usable. To try
them out, you first need to download and install the Apollo
runtime, which can be downloaded from the official Apollo site.
As far as the actual applications go, most of them are either a
heavy beta or a proof-of-concept, but some are already fully
usable and quite fun. Without further ado, here are the ones we
like, in no particular order:  1. Tweetr  For the Twitter
addicts, the 1000th incarnation of Twitter, this time in Apollo.
It works on Mac, WinXP or Vista; and it enables you to receive
and send tweets, but it occasionally stops updating, which is
not nice. The novelty is mostly in a a cool 3D animation and the
ability to change t