Making Twitter-like functionalities a social norm At one point, putting "@" before a username wasn't a well-known way to reach out to someone. But Twitter's made that action a bit more commonplace. As many on Twitter know, by putting "@" before a username allows the sender to reach out to others on Twitter. Today, socialmedian, a second-generation social news site, released Replize, a feature that extends the "@username" function. (Here's a video of Jason's pitch on what socialmedian is). Here’s how the new Replize feature, according to socialmedian. 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 ... [ Read more ]