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threadsy aims to pull all of your online communications together into a simpler, more integrated experience. In line with this vision, we’re excited to announce integration with Meebo’s “Meebo Bar”. An improved chat experience and broad support for all major IM services have been some of the top requests we’ve had in our feedback forum, and we think the Meebo Bar is a big step forward.

The Meebo Bar lets threadsy users access all major chat services while using threadsy including:

• AIM
• Yahoo Messenger
• Facebook Chat
• MSN Messenger
• Myspace IM
• Google Talk
• and many others

The Meebo Bar now occupies the footer of the main threadsy messages view. It features visual and audial notifications whenever you receive new chat messages and allows multiple chat windows at the same time, features requested by several users. Each chat session will appear in a separate window over your message list.

To use the Meebo bar, you must sign up for meebo and add your chat accounts to it. Just click the bar and you’ll be prompted to sign up and add your chat accounts in the popup window. To add other types of chat accounts not listed in the popup, click the ‘pop out to meebo.com’ button and you can add them there under the ’sign on to more accounts’ link. Once you’re set up, you’ll have quick access to all your chat services in one place.

Note that since the Meebo Bar supports Google Talk, we removed the top ‘chat’ tab.

OK, time to start chatting about those huge weekend plans…

We’re excited to show off threadsy to UC Berkeley students at the annual Berkeley Tech Expo tomorrow. In preparation, we added support for Berkeley Calmail to threadsy (for standard @berkeley.edu addresses).

More details on the Expo here:
http://bta.berkeley.edu/techexpo/
On twitter @caltechexpo

When all of your messages come together in one place using threadsy, it’s even more important to have easy ways to manage them. Today we just released a few key features that will help you keep your Inbound nice and tidy.

See more messages with small message view
We’ve added a whole new view for your Inbound messages so you can see over 2x as many Inbound messages on the screen at once. The new small message view is particularly useful on smaller screens to get a better sense of more messages at once.

The default view is the big message view. To switch to the small message view, click the new button in the top Inbound navigation. If you prefer the original big message view, you can switch back to it by clicking the other button. threadsy saves the view you last chose for each computer you use.

So… which view do you prefer? Any things that you would change? Please let us know!

New Inbound filters: unread & starred messages
Now you can quickly see just your unread or starred items across all of your email, Facebook, and Twitter accounts with the new filter dropdown in the Inbound navigation. It can be used in combination with the account filters as well.

Starring Inbound messages
Last but not least, now you can star any item in your threadsy Inbound with the star quick action.
threadsy will also star the item on external services when possible (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Twitter @mentions).

As always, any feedback you have on these new features would be much appreciated.

Since our launch a few weeks ago we’ve received a steady stream of feedback via our Get Satisfaction page, twitter, and feedback@threadsy.com. Thanks a ton for that. Your feedback’s vital to us, and we’re listening! Right now we’re working on several top requested features and have been steadily fixing bugs you’ve reported.
Today we’re excited to announce the release of a few things you’ve requested.

Follow & unfollow Twitter users directly from threadsy
Now when you open a Person Card for someone who has one or more twitter accounts, you can follow or unfollow their twitter accounts right from threadsy. In the top “bio” section of the Person Card, you’ll see a new button under the Twitter account icons. Click it to follow or

Support for Google Chrome
We’ve fixed some nagging issues and now Chrome and threadsy should be friends. If you’re using Chrome and see anything go haywire, please let us know and we’ll fix it!

A few minutes ago (as scooped by Techcrunch!), we added the next key piece of the online communication puzzle to your threadsy Inbound: Facebook wallposts.

Now when someone posts on your Facebook wall or comments on your Facebook status, the posts and comments show up in your Inbound messages right in threadsy. We think these items are definitely ones you want to know about and are a natural fit for your Inbound.

Each Facebook wallpost in Inbound shows the original post, the number of comments, and the most recent comment. A new icon on the right of each item differentiates Facebook wallposts from Facebook messages.

Clicking the post to open it shows you the original post and the latest comments. You can add a comment or like the post right from threadsy, no need to go to Facebook. Also, if you want to see what’s going on with any person in the thread, you can click on that person’s profile pic or name to open their detailed Person Card on the right.

Every time your Facebook status or someone’s post on your wall receives a new comment, the item will move to the top of your Inbound. If you lose interest in a post, you can quick delete it and it won’t show up in your Inbound again even if it receives more comments. Note that quick deleting only deletes the item from threadsy, not Facebook.

As always, we look forward to seeing what you think.

We’ve heard a lot of requests for a quicker way to archive Gmail messages in threadsy, so we just added it!

Now when you hover over any Gmail message in your Inbound message list, you’ll see a new icon for quick archive next to the quick reply and quick delete actions. With just one click, quick archive will archive the message both in threadsy and Gmail.

Note that you can also archive a Gmail message by opening it and clicking the archive button at the bottom of the message.

Other archive ideas – what do you think?
We’re considering adding a bulk archive action that you can use with the checkboxes to archive many messages at once. Would this be something that you’d use? Would you want to archive other things besides your Gmail messages, such as Yahoo messages or Twitter direct messages or @mentions?

Please leave your thoughts here in our feedback forum.

We just released a small but important feature. Now you can comment on or like any Facebook update in your Unbound stream directly from threadsy. Any comments and likes you add while using threadsy will show up in Facebook, and vice versa.

Commenting
A comment indicator on the bottom of each Facebook update shows how many comments the update has. Click it to read all of the comments and add your own.

Liking
Next to the comment indicator is the Like icon. Click it to like a Facebook update. Click it again to unlike.

Another idea: “Abhor”
Have you read a particularly lame Facebook status update recently? It might have even been from a good friend. Facebook lets you hide friends, but what if it’s just an abnormally, incredibly lame update? Hiding seems too drastic an action. What about a dislike action? We’ve actually been calling it ‘abhor’ around here.

The icon is ready to go. We want to see what you think. Well, what do you think?

We’ve been busy since our launch at Techcrunch50 2 days ago.

Today we’re excited to announce the addition of another key piece of pulling your online communication together into one place – Facebook messages. We’re especially excited because we’re the first service to use Facebook’s recently announced Inbox API.

Now featured in Inbound: Facebook messages
See all of the messages from your Facebook Inbox right in threadsy. Since Facebook messages are sent directly to you from people who expect that you’ll read them, we believe they fit the definition of Inbound – required reading – and belong in the Inbound column of threadsy (alongside messages from your email inboxes and twitter @mentions and direct messages). Facebook messages show up with the Facebook icon on the right, and if you want to see just these messages, you can use the Facebook account filter at the top.

Currently, we’re waiting for Facebook to support sending Facebook messages through threadsy. Until then, if you want to send a new Facebook message or reply to a Facebook message, threadsy takes you directly to Facebook’s website.

Also, just as in the rest of threadsy, opening a Facebook message will show you the sender’s Person Card in the right hand column.

We heard your feedback: Select All is live!

OK, a Select All button by itself isn’t something to get too excited about, but it’s pretty exciting to us because it’s the first time we’ve been able to quickly respond to your feedback and turn it into a clear improvement.

Since we launched 2 days ago, one of the loudest requests we’ve heard out of the hundreds of tweets, emails, and feedback forum posts we received is the need for a way to Select All messages in Inbound. Our team buckled down and voilà, Select All is live.

When you click Select All, it selects only the messages currently loaded in your Inbound column. This may include messages not visible on the screen, so the balloon notification at the bottom tells you how many messages are selected. You can delete, mark read, or mark unread all selected messages at once.

What feature would you like threadsy to add the most?
Please let us know on our feedback page. We’re all ears.

We’re excited to report that threadsy snagged 2nd place at the annual Techcrunch 50 startup competition this past Tuesday! Our team was on the edge of their seats watching the awards ceremony. Rob and Udi were clear stand-outs up on stage in their bold threadsy orange tees.

photo by Anna Webber

photo by Chanaye J Thomas

Huge response so far – thanks!
Since the competition we’ve received so much support from everyone…. the steady flow of tweets streaming in is such a great reward to over a year of keeping our heads down building threadsy.

It’s great to finally hear the voices of users. Already we’ve received feedback from hundreds of people via our Getsatisfaction feedback page, email, and twitter. Thanks to everyone who’s shared their thoughts so far, and please keep it coming! We aim to get back to all of you as quickly as we can. We’ve already fixed many bugs you’ve reported and plan to roll out some requested features that we’ve been cranking on really soon. And there’s so much more in the works, we can’t wait to see what you think.

Private beta invites – “they see me rolling”
Ever since Chamillionaire’s surprise guest judge appearance at our session at Techcrunch 50, some of our team can’t get his hit song Ridin, they see me rolling out of our heads.

photo by Techcrunch

Well, the point is that we’re rolling threadsy invites out in batches as fast as possible. We’re working through thousands of requests, so please sit tight if you haven’t received one yet. Just keep refreshing your Inbox!

What people are saying
If you want to read what people are saying about threadsy so far, here’re some good articles to check out:

Threadsy, A Communications Stream To Rule Them All

Threadsy: An Intriguing First Draft

Threadsy aims to be the new center of your online social life

Check out the real-time stream of threadsy shout-outs on twitter… some hilarious ones in there.