On any typical day I will have Seesmic Desktop open monitoring my Twitter and Facebook accounts along with Gmail in a Chrome browser. Gmail lets me monitor my incoming emails along with friends of mine who would like to chat. All of those app's on top of each other, fill up my 19" monitor (secondary, I throw that out to sound cool). Both work exceptionally well by themselves but to have one less app running would be nice.
I found out about Threadsy through TechCrunch50. I can monitor my email (Gmail- or aol, hotmail, yahoo), Twitter, Facebook, and chat (thru Gmail) all in one browser. All from one service. Let me say it again ONE SERVICE. It's nice. The organization of it all is what makes it useful. The wide column, inbound, is your inbox of messages addressed to you from email, Facebook, or an @replies from twitter. Making it easier to see by pulling them from the stream. The stream goes by in the narrow unbound window. You can update your status to Twitter, Facebook, and chat from the unbound window.
There are little things that help make this service even more valuable. I'll try to explain:
- When you receive an email in your inbound window click on it. In the unbound window you'll see all the social networks that user is subscribed to. Making it easy, if you weren't aware, where to see their most current status updates. It's a nice feature when you think about it.
- Receive and @reply in Twitter and the unbound window will show the stream from that user that sent you the @reply.
- While watching the Twitter and Facebook stream in the unbound window you'll see a small preview of attached pic's or video's
- Compose and respond to emails through Threadsy
It's not the most comprehensive review of Threadsy. That's only because I can't completely explain how awesome it is. I'm excited. So you know, Threadsy is in beta. Fill out the request. I'm not certain, but I don't think I waited longer than a week. Since it is in beta there are bugs. I also believe you'll have a better experience if you are a Firefox user. Some of the features don't work in Chrome from my experience. They are working on them, quickly, but there are quirks in Chrome. Threadsy is going places, watch for Thursday,October 22, 2009 episode of the Gillmor Gang to hear more.
