Thing Labs is a company focusing on social media products, with its biggest products being Brizzly (in private beta) and Plinky. It is run by Jason Shellen, a former Googler behind products like Blogger and Google Reader.

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Thing Labs received $600k in Series A funding. (11/09)

Posted 11/6/09 at 11:02am
Thing Labs received $1.6M in Series A funding. (6/9/08)

Posted 11/18/08 at 2:13pm
Thing Labs added Simeon Simeonov as Co-Founder. (6/08)

Posted 1/22/09 at 2:23pm
Thing Labs added Ryan Freitas as Director of Product Design.

Posted 1/22/09 at 2:23pm
Thing Labs added Jason Shellen as CEO & Founder.

Posted 8/18/08 at 8:54pm
Thing Labs added Chris Wetherell as VP of Technology.

Posted 6/11/09 at 8:32pm
Thing Labs added Michael Hirshland as Investor & Board Member.

Posted 8/27/09 at 8:08am

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Brizzly
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Website	brizzly.com
Blog	blog.thinglabs.com
Stage	Private
Launch Date	July, 2009

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 still in private beta testing.

Plinky
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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.