TechCrunch50 startup Threadsy debuted its all-in-one, web-based communications client a few weeks ago and received positive reviews from the judges and audience, making it as a finalist at the conference. Three weeks later, the startup is already innovating and improving upon its product by launching additional support for Facebook.
Threadsy takes all of your online communication and aggregates it into a single service. All of the messages directed at you (email and Twitter @replies) are put into a single stream of messages, called the “inbound” column. And all of the activity streams that you follow (Twitter, Facebook, etc), is put into a single activity stream, the “unbound” stream. The result is a universal communications platform. Threadsy, which is backed by August Capital, is still in private beta and we have 100 invites for TechCrunch readers here.
Today, Threadsy is launching the ability to integrate Facebook wall posts into the “Inbound” column, letting users comment on active discussions, see attached content, like new items, pictures, videos and links, etc. Previously, you could pull in your news feed from Facebook, but couldn’t interact beyond that. Now, you can post status updates, comment on other friends’ updates and indicate a “like” from Threadsy. Users can also pull in their inbox messages from Facebook, but cannot reply back from Threadsy’s platform.
Threadsy’s founder Rob Goldman says that the startup is also getting a lot of requests from users for deeper chat integration, which they plans on integrating in the platform in the near future. And Goldman says a mobile strategy is huge and an iPhone app and support for other smartphones will be rolled out at some point down the line.
Threadsy also lets you filter and manage your communications stream. You can filter by the type of service (for example, only seeing tweets or Facebook messages). Threadsy, which monetizes via contextual advertisements, is sort of like FriendFeed on steroids. And with FriendFeed’s fate yet to be determined after it was acquired by Facebook, perhaps Threadsy will fill a future gap.
darn I tried to sign up before I saw the invite link and I cant reuse my email address on the invite link. =\
Jonathan, I’ll send it to you shortly!
Scott
Thanks =)
Same here, signed up for an invite during TC50.
I have been using threadsy since its startup. It has proven to be the best social media aggregate out there on the web. The best use is to keep it online all day on a separate monitor or in the background. If running in the background a slight tone will sound(an option is there to turn it off).
Threadsy is a clusterfuck, and I don’t think I’ll ever login again. Until it gets pretty.
Awesome! Just signed up to get an invite… Thanks TC
I signed up too!
I just like to say Threadsy. I don’t really care what it does.
lol, Good one!
“thanks! we’ll send you an invite as soon as things are ready.”
: /
Yeah I got the same message, I can’t believe the invites went so quickly, I was looking forward to trying it out
Oh well, maybe it won’t be too long until they send out the nest round of invites.
Did I just get lucky? 1st one to comment, so I guess 1st one to request invite as well! Whew, doesn’t happen quite often.
Oops, seems wasn’t the 1st one after all!
“Thanks! We’ll send you an invite as soon as things are ready.”
Looks pretty cool. Although it seems that the invite link isn’t, perhaps, entirely functional.
I somehow got an invited the first time through, and I really like it for the “unbound” stream, but not as much for the “inbound” stream. That would be fine, but there’s no way to shrink that stream down.
They are solving the right problem, though, at least until Wave gets Twitter/FB integration.
http://bit.ly/1PdsFo
I love Threasdy, but currently it’s inability to keep a facebook connect connection live for me than 60 minutes is keeping me from using it full time.
*Threadsy
I love Ice Cream Sandwiches.
…eh
So far I like it. It’s no the prettiest UI I’ve seen. Viewing HTML formatted e-mails from GMail is difficult. Twitter updates slower here than Echofon.
That said – I think there’s a lot of potential.
Thanks fb user — actually virtually every twitter client fetches on time based intervals (generally about every 3 minutes so not to run out their user’s API call limit) — so one “fetching faster” than the other is really just an illusion, a game of relativity poised between you’re imaginary “start time” and wherever the respective app might actually be relative to it.
As far as the ui not being the prettiest, we’re still hard at work on it — trying to balance the speed of releases with full functionality and beauty. Nevertheless, Hope you keep checking back and what’s more that we can soon win you over.
cheers
400 Techcrunch invites… sent!
Really looking forward to checking this out. Frustrating to keep reading articles about it and not be able to test drive it.
(that sounded less whiny when I was typing it than it does when reading it)
I see some overlap.
I was quick to judge the service after techcrunch50 and wasnt back until I read this post. For some reason it just works for me right now. This is crazy, nevermind the facebook integration (even though its cool), I think its because I finally figured out how to rename my many gmail accounts i have so that i can differentiate them. Other than that I see huge potential now