caterpillarcowboy:
giantrobotlasers:
Tumblr should have something equivalent to an @reply. It should go in the “messages” area in the dashboard. A question should be highlight-able and an @reply assigned so as to send just a part of a post to a friend, with context available.
Another benefit of an @reply is the ability to do a type-ahead like facebook. This would make me associate a tumblog with an identity easily, and would be very good for Tumblr. When that happens on Facebook, no one cares too much. When it happens on the web on a blog, google notices and it matters.
I love this idea. Not only would I use this, but it would also allow tumblr users to more easily scale (increase) the number of people they follow. Why? Because instead of scouring your dashboard in case you missed something, the @reply feature could be used like to signal people’s attention.
I could not have said it better myself, I completely agree with giantrobotlasers and caterpillarcowboy.
The only thing I might add is, let’s not confuse these features as “the Facebook model” or “Twitter’s feature”. These features will be standard across all social media eventually. Frankly, I’m shocked it took Youtube and Facebook so long to implement @replies when its value was so obvious. Tumblr is much younger, but they still need to keep pace. They’re already ahead of the blogging game as the originators of Reblogging, so they should make a push to maintain that key advantage.
Paul Suarez, PC World
