add Facebook comments & likes from threadsy
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?
threadsy adds Facebook messages to your Inbound
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.
threadsy snags 2nd place at Techcrunch 50
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.
threadsy launches at Techcrunch 50!
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.
enter threadsy!
Today people use many communication channels to stay in touch and keeping track of all these touch points can be exhausting. The movie ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ explains this problem well:
Enter threadsy: a new idea in online communication that not only combines email, Facebook, Twitter, and the social web into a unique, integrated experience, but also lets people discover more about each other while exchanging messages. So the next time you want to schedule dinner with friends on email, check out their recent photos on Facebook before seeing them, and continue post-dinner conversation on Twitter, you can do it all on threadsy!
The past week was especially exciting for us. After over a year of working on threadsy, we finally invited several users to try it out. And we already have some great feedback:
- @callmeleo: I stopped having 5 windows on my desktop for Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail/Facebook/Seesmic. Now I have Threadsy and Trillian.
- @allstarsim: This is a great concept – love the sleek, simple interface. I look forward to using it on a daily basis!
- @scottmon: Easy to get into and get started, bravo!
We also received some suggestions to improve the product and will be making threadsy better over the next several weeks. As you can see, we already have several projects mocked up!
If you are in our beta program and want to share your thoughts, please email us at feedback at threadsy dot com or leave us feedback. To join our beta program, go to threadsy.com and request an invite. You can also stay in touch with us via Twitter.
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