Plinky launches microblogging community site to help you create content
Plinky is a new microblogging service designed for people who have trouble thinking about what to blog. It helps you find and create interesting information to share and discuss. It lets you do things like create and share locations on Google maps, share songs that include album art that Plinky grabs from Amazon, share images from around the web, and more.
But Plinky’s not just about sharing and discussing your activities from around the web, like… Continue Reading
Super-secret Plinky makes its first big hire
Plinky, the secretive service that can right now only be vaguely described as a social content encouragement startup, is getting less secretive. It finally has a website. (Well, a place-holder for one anyway.) And now it’s making a high-profile hire.
Today the company brings on board Ryan Freitas as the director of product design. If you don’t know the name, you know the work. Freitas (pictured below) was the director of experience design at Adaptive Path… Continue Reading
Recommendation service Plinky, and its brain, plot to take over the blogging world
Here’s a startup to watch, although there’s not much to see yet. It’s called Plinky, and it’s founded by Jason Shellen, a former lead developer at blog platform Blogger, which was acquired by Google in 2003. Shellen, who left Google almost a year ago after doing things like creating Google Reader, is by virtue of his Blogger job well-versed in the blogosphere’s behavior patterns.
So, Plinky is building a “content encouragement” tool, Shellen tells GigaOm… Continue Reading