Are social media account aggregators dead? Friendfeed's not hopping about but Threadsy, a winner of the TechCrunch50 "Crunchie Awards" this week, aggregates email too with a nice interface. Is this the next big thing we need or an irritating attempt to cover bases in which we lose small details of individual media clients we've grown to love? Or in fact am I just too stubborn for change?

I've just signed up too, a bit of a friendfeed for email, twitter, facebook and other bits and bobs. It sounds quite generic but it's got a nice layout that splits it well and gives you nice control. I'm torn between thinking it's generic, but on the other hand it's just won the big aforementioned award. It also has a pretty ping noise which is intrinsically important to user enjoyment (disable option).

It's got a few good things (it shows videos and photos in updates & tweets which is nice but nothing fantastically new) and a few bad (I'm not sure you can check which Tweets' @ replies stem from, or add wave emails addresses). A downloadable interface would be nice which I imagine something like Waveboard, a desktop client for Wave I'm quite fond of. Waveboard is essentially wave, but in desktop application form which suits me more since, with not so many of users regularly checking Wave [unsubstantiated Twitter gossip and hearsay].

I'm pretty attached to my horribly-high-in-number specific tools. I like simple TwitterFox (now Echofon) and the Gmail email interface. Threadsy's nice, not something massively astounding, but it's got a nice interface with a few touches I might be inclined to use more. With a bit of obstinate practice.

If you follow this link, there's ten invites. If you have a play let us know what you think. It's quite interesting and I'm not sure where I stand on it yet - it might turn out to be quite bloody useful.