| Website | thinglabs.com |
| Blog | blog.thinglabs.com |
| @thinglabs | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 6 |
| Founded | 6/09 |
| Description | Maker of Brizzly and Plinky |
| Total | $2.2M |
| Series A, 6/08 Polaris Venture Partners | $1.6M |
| Series A, 11/09 Polaris Venture Partners Ron Conway Steve Olechowski Greg Yaitanes | $600k |
Thing Labs builds web-based software that makes it easy to create, share, explore and enjoy content.
Founded by Jason Shellen, a former Googler who worked on Blogger and co-created Google Reader, Thing Labs is the company behind Brizzly and Plinky.
| Website | brizzly.com |
| Blog | blog.thinglabs.com |
| Stage | Private |
| Launch Date | July, 2009 |
| Tags | twitter, web-application |
Brizzly is a social media reader from Thing Labs, Inc. It currently works with Twitter and Facebook, and adds features like inline media (photos, videos & maps) expansion, muting, groups, IM-like direct messaging and more.
Brizzly launched in July 2009 and is no longer in private beta testing.
| Website | plinky.com |
Every day Plinky provides a prompt (a question, a request, a challenge, etc.), and users write answers that can easily incorporate photos, playlists, maps and other rich media. These answers can be easily shared on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and most major blogging services.
The service publicly launched on January 22, 2009.
