by Don Reisinger

Just off its first major upgrade, socialmedian, a service that lets users find and share news from within their social networks, announced today that it’s offering a new feature called “replize,” which enables sociamedian users to interact with each other using @username short codes, much like Twitter. But according to the company, its

@username functionality is one of the most advanced in the space and aims at enhancing the overall experience. That’s debatable.

Much like Twitter, sending a replize requires the @username to be anywhere in the comments field. Unlike Twitter, once the “reply” link next to the person’s comment is clicked, it’ll automatically pre-populate the text input field with the user’s @username. Once the replize is sent, it’s highlighted for the recipient and they can choose to receive a notification via email whenever they receive a replize.

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