Just off its first major upgrade, socialmedian, a service that lets users find and share news from within their social networks, announced today that it’s offering a new feature called “replize,” which enables sociamedian users to interact with each other using @username short codes, much like Twitter. But according to the company, its @username functionality is one of the most advanced in the space and aims at enhancing the overall experience. That’s debatable.
Much like Twitter, sending a replize requires the @username to be anywhere in the comments field. Unlike Twitter, once the “reply” link next to the person’s comment is clicked, it’ll automatically pre-populate the text input field with the user’s @username. Once the replize is sent, it’s highlighted for the recipient and they can choose to receive a notification via email whenever they receive a replize.
To enhance the functionality of the page, socialmedian has added a “Replize” tab to the homepage to make it easier for users to view all the discussions between themselves and others. Perhaps most useful for those who are addicted to Twitter, socialmedian will soon let its users send tweets via replize.
socialmedian also announced that users can now connect their Flickr accounts to their socialmedian accounts. Users can choose to add every Flickr photo in their library, as well as favorites or only those matching assigned keywords.
All of the new socialmedian features (except for Twitter integration) are available now.
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socialmedian? I thought I’m seeing Digg website screenshot on the article above..
Wow! Still stingy with the love? Go to the site and take a closer look my friend…
Take a closer look at what? It’s a Digg clone, no two ways about it. It’s Digg with less users, less attractive, less comments, less stories and a few added feature that they *think* users might want.
These days if you want to rip off Digg, you have to do it right. Both the guys behind Yahoo! Buzz and Mixx knew that if you wanted to rip off Digg, you have to do it right from the start if there is ever going to be a shred of hope at the end of the tunnel. You can’t start with less and hope that users will see past that—because they won’t.
The most impressive thing about Socialmedian isn’t the site, but how much money a lone shark was able to raise. It’s a one man shop with an outsourced dev team, and he raised half a million dollars? For that he has my respect.
The feature does seem helpful for promoting discussions around articles/posts. I would think that other news sites and blogs will or already have features that facilitate direct replies and discourse. Although, if we have too any @name features, i’d think we’d have more problems with online identity. This would probably make online identity aggregators or single sign-on providers more useful in coming months.
JP
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Wow, quite a run-on of a sentence you’ve got opening this one! My brain got tired =)
@Yogi I agree… Socialmedian.com’s design is SO similar to digg I had to double-take too.
But then again, with the advent of pligg.com (open source digg clone), this kind of thing was inevitable.
Why cover such a awful site? Stop destroying the TC brand with these kinds of ’stories’.
They just launched and now announcing add ons to the website.
Fail. I don’t understand why their stories are even covered here. SM seems to push out features just for the sake of saying they are pushing out features. This is not news. And their constant email newsletters are annoying. Epic fail.
So, you’re saying you registered with SM since you receive emails, even though you apparently hate it LOL - way to upend any sort of argument you even had, you dolt.
it is more focused than Digg.
I agree with the comments, stop covering this also-ran.
TC - show some integrity to your readers and stop promoting features that are copycat of other services.
Start asking questions like: What is the business model of SM? What user need is being solved by SM?
This is getting ridiculous.