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This is a post by Bobby Travis, who wrote with me at 40Tech from 2009 through 2012. Bobby has since moved on to bigger and better things, but I've left all of his great contributions up on the site. - Evan

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You might remember our post on Threadsy Beta way back in January. Threadsy is a great web app that pulls all of your email, Facebook and Twitter info into one neat little interactive package, and even gives you some detailed multiple social network info on your contacts. In May, Threadsy went live to the public with a slew of new features, and has added even more in the last week. It’s safe to say that Threadsy is growing fast and doing well, so if you tried it and dropped it, you might want to look again — and if you haven’t played with Threadsy yet, we recommend you check it out!

Here’s the shortlist of Threadsy’s new features, some detail on their latest updates, and a few things we would still like to see:

New Features At Public Launch

As of public launch in May 2010, Threadsy included the ability to add Facebook comments and Likes/Dislikes, quick archive Gmail messages, include Facebook Wall posts in your main incoming messages area, follow and unfollow Twitter users directly from Theadsy, archive inbound messages from any service; as well as support for most IMAP email accounts, support for multiple chat platforms like Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Facebook Chat, etc., custom social signatures, email labels/folders, and more.

Check out the full list of features on the Threadsy blog.

New Features This Month

See Facebook likes & interests in the person profile

When you select a message in Threadsy, your contacts’ profile(s) information now includes their Facebook Likes and Interests, highlighting the things you have in common with them.

More support for photo services in your Twitter stream

Threadsy now supports even more photo and video services for inline viewing.

See Twitter stats in the person profile

Threadsy shows both your own and your contacts’ Twitter stats, including follower, following, and tweet counts.

Threadsy labs!

Threadsy Labs is a testing playground for new features. Feeling adventurous and helpful? Leave them your Threadsy username at this link to be added to their list.

Still Needed to Complete the Threadsy Awesome

There are a few features that Threadsy should incorporate to make the experience truly legendary — and eminently useful too:

CC: and BCC: in email

• This is a must for the conscientious email user, or the business user

Drafts for Twitter and Facebook updates

• The addition of drafts and scheduling for Twitter and Facebook updates would put Threadsy in the position to compete with tools like HootSuite and would be great for the power or business user
• The ability to add multiple Facebook pages, especially Fan Pages would support this as well

Muting!

• Being able to mute @messages and DMs from Twitter followers would go a long way to keeping an organized inbox!

Finally, as we mentioned in our original post, it would be really great if Threadsy actually started threading conversations. Twitter apps can do it, Gmail and other email apps can do it. Threadsy should really do it too, considering the name.

What do you think of Threadsy and its new features? Let us know in the comments!