Thing Labs releases peek at Twitter client Brizzly
Thing Labs, a San Francisco start-up made up of several former members of the Google Reader team, released a video preview of its upcoming Twitter application, Brizzly.
About 80 percent of Twitter’s users don’t access the service through the main site. Instead, they go through third-party applications or clients like TweetDeck, Tweetie and now, Brizzly.
Brizzly expands shared photos and videos from Twitter so you don’t have to leave the application for a separate Web page. It… 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