Thing Labs releases peek at Twitter client Brizzly

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

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