Posted by Zack Garbow on December 20 2008

Twitter set the trend of responding to other users with the @ syntax and Socialbrowsers have naturally followed suit by communicating with each other with @ in our comment threads.

We figured since this was the preferred way of responding to each other, it's about time we made it easier to do. Therefore we've release our new "Replies" feature. Using replies, you can now quickly address each other in comment threads, with Socialbrowse supplying Gmail-style auto-fill. From your profile you can now quickly track conversations involving you. Here's how it works:

From any comment page, including the embedded comments, you can now directly respond to another user using the @ syntax, with Socialbrowse providing an auto-fill, consisting of all your friends and anyone who has already contributed to the current conversation. Just type "@" and a few characters of their name, and Socialbrowse will provide matches to choose from. When you select one of the names from the list, Socialbrowse will track these replies and serve them up to the subject of your response.

One of the best parts of Socialbrowse is engaging in conversations with smart people. But it can be frustrating to step away for awhile and forget which conversations you wanted to follow up on. Or perhaps you don't even know if someone responded to one of your comments. With the Replies feature, you can now track who has responded to you on any threads from your profile.

Just select the Messages/Replies tab in your profile and we'll show all of the comments addressed to you using the Replies feature, with links back to the conversation. That way you can always go back and get in the last word ;-)