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Websitethinglabs.com
Blogblog.thinglabs.com
Twitter@thinglabs
CategoryConsumer Web
Employees6
Founded6/09
DescriptionMaker of Brizzly and Plinky

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San Francisco, USA
San Francisco, CA, 94103
USA

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Thing Labs

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.

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Brizzly

Websitebrizzly.com
Blogblog.thinglabs.com
StagePrivate
Launch DateJuly, 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.

Plinky

Websiteplinky.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.

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  1. Ex-Googler’s Plinky Raises $1.5 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  2. techcrunch.com [edit]
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