| 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 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.
| 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.
| 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.