Threadsy Is What I Wanted Google Wave To Be……Awesome

Posted on May 4th, 2010 by Nathan Burke
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Wow. Threadsy. It’s awesome.

These days, it takes something really, really interesting to get me to write a blog post, and threadsy is it. Here we go.

Threadsy is exactly what I was hoping Google Wave would be. Unfortunately, Google Wave ended up being a buggy, spam-infested pile of confusion. Threadsy is a webapp that allows you to pull in multiple email accounts and your social media accounts (twitter and facebook) into one simple interface. And by cross-referencing each source, it’s able to be Xobni-like and find out more information on those that you are corresponding with.

That was a horrible description. Here’s an example:

Threadsy 1

This is a screenshot of the app. You can see that the app is split into two panels: Inbound and Streams. The left pane shows my incoming emails. Clicking on an email does this:

The email opens on the left, and the right hand pane looks to find that person’s stream. For instance, in this example the person that sent me an email has a twitter account. Threadsy automatically looks up her twitter feed and shows me her most recent posts. Dude. That’s kind of badass.

What Does It Solve?

Right now I’m trying to stay ontop of the following every day:

  • My work email address (google apps for business)
  • My personal email address
  • My work twitter account (@aprigo)
  • My personal twitter account (@nathanwburke)
  • My personal facebook account
  • My work facebook account
Until this very day, I solved this (if you want to call it “solved”) by using:
  • Google chrome for mac to have my work email and facebook open
  • Safari to have my personal email and personal facebook open
  • Tweetdeck to monitor twitter
That’s a lot of tabbing around to stay ontop of anything, and it just doesn’t work. I have to stay ontop of my work email, but it’s pretty much impossible to even peer over at my personal stuff. But now with Threadsy, it’s all in one spot. Like I mentioned previously: Dude.
Am I Rushing To Judge? Of Course I Am.
Now, I’ve only used Threadsy for, say, an hour. So rushing to judgement that it is the best thing since root beer is perhaps dumb. I plan on really taking a look around at it to see what it’s capable of, but for now, I’m pretty damned happy with it.
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