• Faster display of Streams and faster switching between Streams account filters.
• Up to 5 times more Stream items if you leave threadsy open for a while.
• Using Facebook’s Graph API in Streams. The Graph API is their preferred, latest, and most supported API. This insures that threadsy will be able to take advantage of the most up-to-date Facebook changes going forward.
• Twitter search when click a hashtag in tweets (e.g., #worldcup).
• Play Facebook videos and Youtube videos directly in Facebook posts.
• Photos and videos posted as short URLs now appear in Streams. For example, a bit.ly link to a twitpic now shows the twitpic photo in threadsy.
• See the number of Likes next to the thumbs up icon for every Facebook post.

We also pushed a bunch of bug fixes which we’ll update in our feedback forum.

When you open a message in threadsy, you can see a lot of interesting stuff about the sender in the profile that opens on the side, including recent Facebook & Twitter updates, photos, bio info, and their website memberships.

Now you can see even more. Introducing a first-of-its-kind feature: see Facebook likes & interests in threadsy.

• Highlight shared passions: See all the Likes & Interests you have in common with someone.
  She kickboxes? No way. So do I!
• Do your homework: Unearth interests to get a better sense of what a person cares about.
  Just got an email from someone you met over the weekend? Check them out!
• Learn about new stuff: Browse a person’s entire batch of Likes and find interesting new ones.
  Share some movie Likes with someone? See other movies they like to discover good new ones.
• Works for anyone: Doesn’t matter if they’re a Facebook friend or not. If they have public Likes you’ll see them here.

It all shows up in a new likes & interests section in the person profile. Any mutual Likes appear first and then the others. Hover over any of them to see additional info and click the ‘Like’ button to like them. If you want even more info, you can click any image to go to the Facebook page.

To see all of a person’s likes & interests, click the ‘more’ arrow. Hover over any item to see more info. As you can see below, there’s a ton of exploration to be had in here (like, what exactly is Marmite anyway?):

This is the latest feature we’ve added that focuses on creating value by integrating your social graphs across multiple online communication services. It not only brings data to the right moment but goes a step further and highlights what matters most. We believe there’s a lot of potential in this area and more ideas are in the works in our just formed threadsy labs (leave your threadsy username here to join).

We’re excited for you to check this out and are curious to hear about your experiences using it.

Smaller threadsy logo in social signature
We heard your feedback and reduced the size of the threadsy logo by 70%. We also shortened the threadsy link language. Here’s an evolution of the social signature design so far:

Some people requested that we remove the threadsy logo from the social signature altogether. We haven’t done that yet because we think this is valuable way to get the word out about us and gives people who like your signature a simple way to get their own. If the signature is still a no-go for you, please let us know why below and we’ll factor that in to our next revision.

“In reply to…” links for Inbound Twitter @replies
In response to your feedback in our forum, we added a link to the original tweet that was replied to for all Twitter @replies in your Inbound so you can better follow the conversation. Clicking the link takes you to the tweet on twitter.com (for now). We plan on improving this in the future so that you can view the entire Twitter conversation directly in threadsy.

The Ding is Dead in Streams
We’ve changed the notification sound to only ding when you have new stuff in Inbound, not in Streams. Note that you can always turn all sounds on/off in your threadsy settings.

See person profiles while composing a new message
Now when you compose a new Inbound message, threadsy will auto-open the person profile tied to each address you add. It makes it easier to check out the latest info about people before you send your message. If you have multiple recipients on a message, just click the address that you want to check out to see their person profile.

And of course a bunch of bug fixes
We’ll update all of the fixed bugs in our feedback forum shortly. Thanks for reporting and helping improve our Beta!

If a person has multiple Twitter accounts, you can see them all listed in their profile. Also, if you have multiple Twitter accounts added to threadsy, you can follow/unfollow each of the person’s Twitter accounts from any of your accounts. Here’s an example of what that looks like:

For example, instead of this:

You’ll now see this:

We previously released the ability to see twitpic and yfrog photos and watch youtube and vimeo videos directly in your threadsy Twitter stream. Today we’ve added a bunch of other services to the list. Now also see photos from flickr, tweetphoto, twitgoo, img.ly, mobypicture, and brizzly. Also, links to photos (jpg, png, or gif) show up directly in threadsy. In the spirit of being visual, here’s all of that in picture form:

Any other important photo or video sites you’d like to see directly in your threadsy stream? Please let us know in the comments below.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2010 — threadsy (http://www.threadsy.com), the world’s first truly integrated communication experience, launched a public beta version of its service today. It’s free for anyone to use and works without any downloads right in a web browser.

threadsy pulls together your email, Facebook, Twitter, chat, and the broader social web into a simple, enjoyable experience. More than simply aggregating information, threadsy integrates the services to provide better organization of messages and deep context on the people you communicate with.

Built from the ground up for today’s evolved communication mix

“Online communication is changing quickly. It’s becoming more public, social, and powerful, but it’s also becoming a fragmented mess,” said Rob Goldman, CEO of threadsy. “The average 23-year-old now has 6 different accounts to check every day.” Email used to dominate online communication; now it’s just a piece of a much larger tapestry including social networks, instant messaging, mobile devices, and rich content sharing. Just in the past year, online communication has seen profound changes.

“Facebook usage increased by 5 times, US smartphone penetration grew 50%, Google released its own Buzz social info sharing product, and now Twitter’s gaining 300,000 users a day,” said Goldman. “threadsy anticipated this explosion of communication channels and was designed to make managing them simpler and more enjoyable.”

See all your messages in one place

threadsy lets anyone combine all of their existing email, Facebook, Twitter, and chat accounts in one place. For email, threadsy supports Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, MobileMe, AOL Mail, and IMAP accounts. threadsy is a full-featured email client with support for folders, archiving, drafts, and custom email signatures.

For chat, threadsy supports Google Talk, Facebook Chat, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Myspace, and others through integration with Meebo. threadsy uses the recommended secure access methods from Google, Facebook, and Twitter and industry-standard encryption for other services.

Never miss must-read stuff again

threadsy groups all of your messages into 2 buckets: everything directly to you from email, Facebook, and Twitter in one column and your Facebook News Feed and Twitter stream in another. This organization insures important messages directed to you don’t slip through the cracks.

Focus on the people

threadsy creates detailed profiles of the people you message with. When someone sends you a message, browse their latest photos, website profiles, and Facebook and Twitter updates.

Deep integration with Facebook and Twitter

threadsy lets you fully interact with Facebook and Twitter. Post updates to either service or both at the same time. Comment on, like, love, and dislike Facebook updates. Follow/unfollow people in Twitter. Search Twitter for interesting tweets. See photos and watch videos. All directly in threadsy.

What’s new since our private beta launch

Since a successful private beta launch at the Techcrunch 50 startup competition 7 months ago, threadsy has rolled out a steady stream of major enhancements based on feedback from thousands of private beta users. Here are the highlights; you can read more about them on the threadsy blog:

• add Facebook comments & likes from threadsy
• quick archive for Gmail messages
• Facebook wallposts in your Inbound
• follow/unfollow Twitter users directly in threadsy
• small message view, stars, and unread filter
• support for most IMAP email accounts
• support for Twitter’s recommended access protocol OAuth
• support for AIM, Facebook Chat, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and others
  
• support for Apple’s MobileMe email accounts
• Twitter search and saved searches
• auto-link shortening
• love or dislike Facebook posts
• archive any of your threadsy Inbound messages from any service!
• huge speed increases and simplified navigation
• support for email folders/labels
• email drafts
• cross-account and cross-network tweet sharing (support for both old and new retweet styles)
• custom social email signatures
• support for Gmail’s secure authentication method OAuth (removes need to give threadsy Gmail password)
• new today: wider Streams view with much bigger photos & videos, cleaner layout & typography for improved readability, watch Vimeo videos in threadsy, and a bulk archive action that works with any service



Sign up now

Time to pull yourself together! Just go to threadsy.com to sign up now.

Request for feedback

threadsy appreciates your feedback and uses it to improve the product on a daily basis. Please leave your thoughts in the threadsy feedback forum.

About threadsy

threadsy (http://www.threadsy.com) is the world’s first truly integrated communication experience. It pulls together your email, Facebook, Twitter, chat, and the broader social web into a simpler, enjoyable experience. More than simply aggregating information, threadsy integrates the services to provide better organization of messages and deep context on the people you communicate with. It’s free to use and works with your existing accounts right in your web browser. threadsy is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more info please contact us at info@threadsy.com


]]> http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/05/04/threadsy-opens-to-the-public/feed/ 28 threadsy beta_1wholeapp beta_1wholeapp_noted beta_2usercard_noted beta_3slideshow_noted beta_4search_noted beta_5compose_annotated http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/04/21/unbound-becomes-streams/ http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/04/21/unbound-becomes-streams/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:49:41 +0000 threadsy http://blog.threadsy.com/?p=848 ]]>
We’ve decided to give the threadsy Unbound column a new name: Streams. The Streams column contains exactly the same stuff as Unbound did, specifically your Facebook news feed and your Twitter streams. So this is really just a name change; the word “Unbound” was confusing a lot of people.

We’re keeping the name Inbound for the other column. Inbound is everything directed to you from email, Facebook, and Twitter. This includes email messages, Facebook messages, Facebook wallposts on your wall, Twitter @mentions, and Twitter Direct Messages. We’ve grouped all of these items into Inbound because we think they’re things you definitely want to know about.



How do you feel about the grouping of Inbound vs. Streams? Does it make your online communications simpler and more enjoyable? We’d love to hear your thoughts below.


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Two weeks ago, Gmail announced support for a secure authentication method called OAuth (see the announcement here). The key benefit of OAuth is that it lets you access your Gmail on sites like threadsy without ever sharing your password. Today we’ve added full support for this new protocol; we’re one of the first to do so!

Now with threadsy you can add your existing Gmail or Google Apps email accounts without ever providing your passwords to threadsy. Existing threadsy users can upgrade to the new standard, and once you do we’ll no longer store your email password. Please see below for a guide to upgrading any Gmail or Google Apps accounts you’ve previously added to threadsy.

Keeping your information private & secure is something threadsy takes very seriously, and supporting Gmail OAuth is just the latest of many steps we’ve taken. We also use Facebook Connect (Facebook’s recommended authentication method) and Twitter OAuth (Twitter’s secure authentication method).

For other non-Google email accounts that you use with threadsy (Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and IMAP), we use industry-standard encryption to secure your passwords. We’re closely watching the latest developments such as Yahoo Mail’s recent announcement of OAuth support and welcome the trend of more secure access. It’s also worth reiterating that threadsy will never share your email address, contacts, or personal information with third parties. See our privacy policy for more details on how threadsy protects your privacy.

Walkthrough: upgrading Gmail & Google Apps accounts in threadsy
If you’ve already added any Gmail & Google Apps accounts to threadsy, when you login you’ll see this popup:


Click the green upgrade button and you’ll see one of 2 screens:

Screen 1: If you see this screen, select an account from the list or select ‘Choose another account’:


Screen 2: Gmail login screen on google.com, enter your email address and password. Your password is not shared outside of Google.


Then on the next screen, click ‘Grant access’ to upgrade:


If you have any difficulties in the upgrade process, please let us know at support@threadsy.com and we’ll work through it with you.


]]> http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/04/14/look-ma-no-password-threadsy-adds-gmail-oauth-support/feed/ 2 threadsy auth gmail-upgrade gmail-oauth1a gmail-oauth1b gmail-oauth1c http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/04/12/were-hiring-a-front-end-ninjajedirockstarwizardpirate/ http://blog.threadsy.com/2010/04/12/were-hiring-a-front-end-ninjajedirockstarwizardpirate/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:20:45 +0000 threadsy http://blog.threadsy.com/?p=809 ]]>
If you can design visually stunning yet highly usable websites and write structured, efficient html/css/javascript to turn these designs into live products you might be our next front-end ninja.

threadsy is looking for creative, smart, passionate people who can help us to continue and break new ground. If you’re interested, send a link to your portfolio and resume to jobs@threadsy.com. BTW the job is full-time and in our San Francisco office.


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Introducing the social email signature, a fresh take on the standard email signature.

Your threadsy social signature lets you easily share more of your online life in every email message you send, such as your photo and profiles on sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, and many more.

You can customize everything in your social signature. To edit it, first click the Inbound ‘compose’ button. You’ll see a default social signature at the bottom of the compose box. Click anywhere on the signature to edit it. Also note you can easily remove the signature from the message you’re composing by clicking the ‘x’ in its upper right corner. If you want to turn the signature off permanently, uncheck the ‘signature’ box to the right of the text toolbar.


In the social signature edit screen, you can customize the following:

• your name
• additional text: space for whatever you want, such as your preferred email address, phone number, skype name
• your photo: choose from any photos threadsy knows about
• your websites: choose from any that threadsy knows about. To see the website name, hover over the site’s icon



This is our first take on the social signature and we’d love to hear your feedback. What do you think so far? Anything you’d really like to see us change or add?


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