Replize (& Flickr)

This is what I just recieved from Social Median. Ofcourse they aren't trying to take twitter's place. Keeping communication buzzing within one's community is the life of a Social Network. Jason, you really used your thinking cap for this feature, Nice one!

"We launched an exciting new feature set on socialmedian today, “Replize.” Replize enables sociamedian users to easily interact with each other using @username short codes. This takes what people are already doing on services like Twitter (using @username replies) and extends and enhances the functionality.

 Here’s how it works.
1. To send a replize to any user on socialmedian, all a user needs to do is include @username for any username(s) anywhere in the comments field. If you click the “reply” link next to a comment we’ll pre-populate the other person’s @username. You can include several people in a replize, e.g. @jasongoldberg @louisgray @nishith. The replize will be sent to all.
2. We then highlight the replize to those users in their homepage News Feed. Users can also be notified by email whenever they have a replize.
3. We’ve also added a “Replize” tab to the homepage so that users can easily view all their replize in one place, and thus quickly see all the stories they have been included in discussions onLater this week we’ll enable auto-complete functionality for any @username you are following or who is following you. We’ll also then enable people to also send their replize as tweets.We also today enabled socialmedian users to connect their Flickr to socialmedian.

This is particularly handy for mobile photo uploads as Flickr has great apps for blackberry and iphone, enabling socialmedian users to now instantly upload any photo on the go to socialmedian. To connect your Flickr to socialmedian, go to Add Something > Site > Flickr on socialmedian. You can choose to add all of your Flickr photos and favorites, or only those matching certain tags (keywords).As always, please pass along feedback and suggestions.

Thanks-jason"