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Today at the annual Techcrunch 50 startup competition, our CEO Rob Goldman introduced threadsy to the world and announced the launch of threadsy’s public beta. In his allotted 8 minutes, Rob presented highlights of the latest version of threadsy to a venue packed to the seams with tech media, investors, and entrepreneurs. We think he did a great job, you can check out threadsy’s presentation here:

Announcing threadsy’s private beta, begins today!
Starting today, we’ll be sending out invites in tranches to everyone who requests an invite. Since our last blog post over 2 months ago, our small team has worked feverishly to get things ready for this launch at Techcrunch 50. A huge thank you to our alpha testers who shared their feedback with us over the last few months – it played a crucial role in our product development and helped shape what you see now.

The latest version of threadsy brings it a step closer to our vision of not only bringing all of your online communication together in one place, but going a step further and making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Since threadsy supports all of your existing webmail (Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and AOL), GTalk, Facebook, and Twitter accounts, it is in a unique position to integrate all of the info that’s silo-ed in each of your accounts to do powerful things not possible when using just one service at a time.

Today threadsy introduces 2 major ideas that we believe will have a huge impact on how you communicate online:

Separate your inbound from your unbound
Bringing your email, Facebook, and Twitter accounts together is great and all, but how they’re brought together is the key to improving your online communication experience. There’s no question that things have gotten a lot more complicated. Depending on what services you use and how you use them, you might regularly read email messages, Facebook messages, wallposts, comments, news feed updates, tweets from people your following, Twitter @mentions, and Twitter direct messages. That’s a lot of stuff to check.

But not all of this stuff is the same priority. If you miss some Facebook news feed updates here and there, you probably don’t care (at least I hope you don’t). But if someone posts to your Facebook wall or replies to you on Twitter, you probably want to know. Right now, with important stuff mixed in with less important stuff across multiple services, it’s easy for something important to slip through the cracks and go unnoticed for too long.

To solve this, threadsy introduces the idea of inbound communications vs. unbound communications.

Inbound – the stuff you don’t want to miss
threadsy groups all of your email together with any messages or replies people sent you on Twitter. Coming really soon, you’ll also see your Facebook messages, any wallpost left by others on your Facebook profile, and any comments on your Facebook status updates in inbound. threadsy shows all your inbound stuff in a single column on the left.

Unbound – interesting but optional stuff
In the right column, threadsy shows a rolling stream of updates from your Facebook news feed and the people you follow on Twitter. This column updates frequently and can be minimized if you want to focus only on inbound.

Focus on the people – the Person Card
When it comes down to it, communication is about people, not systems or different types of message formats.

threadsy brings people into central focus by pulling together relevant information and displaying complete views of everyone you exchange messages with. Every time you open an inbound message, a summary of everything about the sender of the message shows up in the right column – we call it the Person Card. The Person Card lets you quickly see any person’s bio info, websites, photos, and latest Facebook and Twitter updates. Click any profile pic or name anywhere in threadsy to see that person’s Person Card – even your own pic in the top right corner. Come on, I know you want to check yourself out…

Look for more in-depth posts on these new features soon.

We need your feedback!
Now that we’re out in the public, we need your feedback more than ever. We have a long list of features we’re working on and want to hear what’s important to you. After using threadsy, please give us some feedback on our GetSatisfaction page or email us at feedback@threadsy.com. We’ll respond as quickly as we can.

So if you haven’t already…
Pull yourself together with threadsy! It’s free to use and works with your existing accounts right in your web browser. Check it out now.