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| Mar 11, 2020 | Twitter promove serviço Brizzly+ com recurso de “editar” tweets | O CEO do Twitter, Jack Dorsey, disse que a rede social “provavelmente nunca” terá um recurso para editar tweets. Em vez disso, a empresa decidiu divulgar um serviço de terceiros chamado Brizzly+ que oferece algo parecido: a opção de desfaze... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | With a bold new redesign, AIM could finally be cool again (seriously) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve used AOL Instant Messenger as my go-to chat client, but the new AIM may just be good enough to ... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | With a bold new redesign, AIM could finally be cool again (seriously) | It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve used AOL Instant Messenger as my go-to chat client, but the new AIM may just be good enough to change that.
AOL launched a preview of its latest AIM vision today, which includes new desktop, mobile, a... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Brizzly Plays Feature Catch-Up, Adds Foursquare And "New" Retweet Support | When I logged on to Brizzly this morning, a notification popped up announcing some brand new features for the web-based social networking client. As you can read on Brizzly maker Thing Labs‘ blog, there are also some design changes accompan... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Our New Parent, AOL, Confirms Our Scoop On Them Buying Thing Labs | Well, this is kind of awkward.
A couple weeks ago, we reported that AOL was in the process of acquiring of Thing Labs, makers of Brizzly. Neither AOL or Thing Labs would comment at the time, but we had multiple good sources on the deal. Fas... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | AOL Acquires Team Lead by Google Reader Creators | Thing Labs, the company behind social media stream reader Brizzly, has been acquired by AOL, multiple sources have now confirmed. The startup is led by Jason Shellen, who managed the creation of the category-killing Google Reader years ago,... |
| Sep 28, 2010 | AOL snaps up Brizzly creator Thing Labs, web video company 5min | Acquiring TechCrunch was certainly AOL’s biggest announcement today, but the company didn’t stop there: This afternoon, news spread that AOL has also purchased Thing Labs — creator of the Brizzly social media reader — for an undisclosed amo... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Inline Pictures And Video Are A Part Of What Twitter Is Announcing Tonight | The entire Internet seems to be guessing about what Twitter is going to unveil at their big event later this afternoon. Analytics, deeper Google integration, the killer business model? All fair guesses, but we’ve just heard from a source at... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | AOL in talks to buy Thing Labs? | Rumors abound about a social-media buyout, and new life for AOL's social media after Bebo Flop
AOL and Thing Labs, are in what appear to be the final stages of acquisition talks. Thing Labs is the creator of a Twitter and Facebook managemen... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | AOL Said To Be Dialing Up Brizzly-Maker Thing Labs For An Acquisition | A couple months ago, a rumor was spreading around that Thing Labs (makers of the Twitter/Facebook app Brizzly) was being acquired by Foursquare. That wasn’t true, it was simply speculation based on some tweets. Here’s another rumor for you,... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | AOL wants to get more social with Brizzly acquisition (report) | AOL is in final talks to acquire Thing Labs, the creator of Twitter and Facebook management application Brizzly, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch.
Neither company would comment for the TechCrunch story. Thing Labs chief... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Rate Limits Continue To Die: Twitter Opens Site Streams Beta | Twitter has just announced that it’s opening the Site Streams feature of its API up to developers. This is big news, as it allows mobile push services and web apps like Brizzly and Seesmic Web to immediately display new tweets, mentions and... |
| Aug 26, 2010 | Cee-Lo's "F*ck You" Ain't Got Nothing On Gaga's "Telephone" | As seen by the entire Internet, the August 19th premiere of Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You” will go down in history as the day the phrase “fuck you” became totally benign and commonplace.
But, in another case of loud web hipster chatter not resul... |
| Aug 11, 2010 | Cliqset Goes Mobile With iPhone, Android And Web Apps; Integrates Google Buzz | Cliqset, a realtime online social identity platform is going mobile today, with the launch of iPhone, Android and Web apps.
The free apps include much of the same functionality as the web client, with the ability to post and syndicate conte... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | 5 Big Questions About Twitter’s Move to Multimedia | Twitter slipped a new option into users’ settings earlier today that hinted the service may soon display images and video inline with users’ 140-character updates, much like Facebook does in its News Feed. Moments after it was seen and repo... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | Twitter Begins Testing Inline Photos And Videos On Its Website | A new option has just appeared in Twitter’s “Settings” menu called “Twitter Media.” This appears to indicate that inline image and video sharing is making its way to Twitter.com shortly. The option appears on my account, but checking the bo... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | $4.6M of Foursquare’s latest funding to go into executives’ pockets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After the popular check-in service Foursquare finally closed its second round of funding in June after much speculation in the press, t... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | $4.6M of Foursquare’s latest funding to go into executives’ pockets | After the popular check-in service Foursquare finally closed its second round of funding in June after much speculation in the press, the company announced it had secured $20 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others. According to a recen... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Cliqset 2.0 Launches With Deeper Twitter Integration And Content Curation | Cliqset, a realtime online social identity platform is launching a new version of its applications: Cliqset 2.0.
The goal of the new release is to better organize the social web and make Cliqset the go-to “distributed social ecosystem,” say... |
| Jun 25, 2010 | Automattic Buys Up Thing Labs' Plinky To Help Bloggers Overcome Writer's Block | WordPress developer Automattic has acquired Plinky from Thing Labs, the creators of social media application Brizzly. Plinky essentially aims to inspire content creators. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Plinky’s technology prompts you... |
| Jun 15, 2010 | Startups bet that Facebook has forfeited close friendships | As Facebook continues its inexorable growth across the globe, a host of Silicon Valley startups are betting that it’s no longer the best place online to hang out with your closest friends.
The latest attempt to gain ground in the social spa... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Yum! Brizzly Picnics Go Live To Turn Twitter Into A Private Chatroom | Brizzly has long been one of my favorite Twitter clients. But as Twitter itself has kept adding new features, there’s been less and less of a reason to use it. But a new feature that just rolled out may bring me back: Picnics.
We’ve written... |
| May 20, 2010 | Brizzly Teases Upcoming 'Picnics' Feature | Not being a fan of memory-hogging desktop clients, I prefer to use Web apps in my browser of choice (Google Chrome) for most everything. For Twitter, I tend to use Brizzly, a product of San Francisco-based Thing Labs, which was founded by f... |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Twazzup Launches New Twitter Analytics Service and Web-Based Twitter Client | Just about a year ago, Twazzup launched one of the more interesting Twitter search engines and one month ago, it became one of the first services to get access to Twitter’s full firehose stream. Today, the company is launching its first new... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Plinky Goes Kablooie | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Thing Labs, the California startup that launched both the Plinky prompting service and the Brizzly social media reader with support from Waltham, MA-based Polaris Venture Part... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Brizzly acquires WikiRank, launches wiki-style guide to trending topics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The deluge of information rushing by on Twitter m... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Brizzly acquires WikiRank, launches wiki-style guide to trending topics | The deluge of information rushing by on Twitter may get a little less intimidating.
Brizzly, the social media client from the team behind Google Reader, just launched a wiki-style guide to Twitter trending topics that stays long after hot s... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Brizzly Releases iPhone App | For power users, the Twitter website is often just a thing of the past. We’ve moved on to third party interfaces with multiple columns, special user list navigation, search, and so on. But what about the novice user that wants something mor... |
| Mar 10, 2010 | Brizzly's Been Busy — Buying Apps, Creating Guides, And Going On Picnics. | Since it launched last July at our Realtime Stream CrunchUp, Brizzly has been one of the best web-based Twitter apps. It offers support for viewing pictures inline, shortened link expansion, multiple Twitter accounts, and even some Facebook... |
| Feb 27, 2010 | Twitter To Add "Nifty" Site Features That May Make You Forget Third-Party Clients | Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use o... |
| Feb 22, 2010 | Seesmic Web Perfects The Management Of Twitter Followers | Do you follow more than 100 people on Twitter? If so, have you ever tried to manage them on Twitter .com? It’s awful. Really awful. They make you go through page after page of names in no real order (other than how recently you added them).... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Pinging In The New Year: Seesmic Acquires Ping.fm | Well that didn’t take long. Just four days in 2010 and we already have an acquisition. Social networking application Seesmic has acquired the social status updater Ping.fm.
The move positions the various Seesmic applications (web, desktop, ... |
| Dec 22, 2009 | Mozzler Comes Full Circle And Turns Its Realtime News Stream Into A Reader (Private Beta Invites) | Realtime news stream startup Mozzler, which launched at our November Realtime CrunchUp, is bringing more of a news reader feel to its stream search. Mozzler lets you search Twitter, Facebook, and Digg for breaking news. Today it is launchin... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Location's Social Paradox | There’s an absolute eruption of activity around location-based services right now. Companies are getting funded left and right, new ones are popping up daily, and certain ones are seemingly starting to take off. But for a number of them, th... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | Polaris Opening Dogpatch Labs 'Frat House For Geeks' In New York | Redeem now
Polaris Ventures, based outside Boston, is opening a new startup space in New York, offering free office space, Web access, coffee, and snacks for select early-stage startups and entrepreneurs.
This is the firm's third "Dogp... |
| Dec 8, 2009 | Brizzly Is The Most Handsome Chrome Extension. If Only It Were A Little Faster… | As we all know, today was Chrome Extension day. By now, you’ve likely tried out many of them and picked some that you like as well as those that you don’t. Easily one of my favorites so far is the Brizzly extension built by Thing Labs. It’s... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Twitter’s stalled growth could spell bad news for Twitter ecosystem | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or Aug... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | What Apps Should Twitter Acquire? | According to a statement made today by Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone, the company is interested in acquiring more companies to expand upon their current core set of features. At a news conference held in Tel Aviv, Stone was quoted as sayin... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Twitter’s stalled growth could spell bad news for Twitter ecosystem | October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.
According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from Se... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Brizzly Opens To All. And Snatches Someone From Facebook. | Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, ... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Facebook Agrees To Set Friend Lists Free. Mashups With Twitter Lists Should Follow. | Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter has starting g... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Now anyone can try Brizzly’s app for Facebook and Twitter | Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.
The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes featu... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | PublicEarth: Layers, Crowd-Sourcing, And Taxonomy Meet Maps | Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Jon Steinberg who very recently accepted a position an an Executive-In-Residence at Polaris Venture Partners, which backs PublicEarth. Still, this is an interesting product and concept in an inte... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | With Brizzly In Good Health, Director Of TV's House And Others Invest In Thing Labs | Brizzly is on a roll right now. Just yesterday, it became the first web-based Twitter client to implement Lists, and last week it rolled out Facebook support. Today brings good news for its parent company: More funding.
At the end of this m... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Brizzly Twitter client already supports Lists | Third-party Web-based Twitter client seamlessly merges Lists with its own Groups feature Though Twitter officially launched Lists only a week ago, third-party developers are already hard at work implementing the new feature into their appli... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Seesmic Web Gets Lists and Geolocation | Seesmic just announced the launch of Twitter lists in its browser-based Seesmic Web Twitter client. Earlier this week, Seesmic released the first desktop Twitter client with support for lists. Despite Seesmic’s best efforts, Brizzly managed... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Seesmic Web One-Ups Brizzly With Lists AND Geolocation Support (Kind Of) | Earlier this week, Seesmic rolled out support for the new Twitter Lists for its Desktop client. Today, that same functionality comes to its web-based client. And with it comes a bonus: Geolocation support.
Now, to be clear, most users still... |
| Nov 5, 2009 | Brizzly Marries Groups And Twitter Lists | When it was first unveiled at our Realtime Crunchup in July, easily one of the best features of the web-based Twitter client Brizzly was Groups. Basically, it allowed you to sort your Twitter followers into subsections, to make specific gro... |
| Oct 31, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: The Web in 5 Years, Hulu’s Plans, Google Wave Use Cases, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze how Google CEO Eric Schmidt thinks the Web will evolve, review Hulu’s latest plans to make money, investigate use cases for Google Wa... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Brizzly Adds Facebook – Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media (2000 Invites Below!) | Brizzly wants to be to microblogging what Blogger.com was to blogging five years ago. Currently, Brizzly offers a user-friendly browser-based interface for Twitter and Facebook. The Facebook integration went live today and more social media... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Brizzly Gets A New Coat: Facebook | Since its beta launch this summer, Brizzly has been hands-down one of the best ways to interact with Twitter. The web app puts a new and intuitive user interface over Twitter’s data, which allows you to do things like see pictures inline in... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Twitter-client Brizzly adds Facebook updates | Brizzly, the still-in-beta Twitter client from the team behind Google Reader, now pulls in updates from Facebook. It’s a nice, natural addition to the web-based client, which is a bit more consumer-friendly than Tweetdeck or Hootsuite.
Briz... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Twitter-client Brizzly adds Facebook updates | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Brizzly, the still-in-beta Twitter client from th... |
| Oct 16, 2009 | Keep Your Friends Organized: Twitter Expands Lists Beta | Twitter rolled out a limited beta of its new lists feature to a larger number of users late last night. With these new lists, Twitter users can now organize their friends into groups. By default, these lists are private, but one of the most... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | What Do You Hate About the Real-Time Web? | We just spent a whole day talking about the real-time web a the RWW Real-Time Web Summit. While the general mood was obviously extremely upbeat, a few sessions at the conference also focused on some of the questions that still remain to be ... |
| Oct 8, 2009 | Stuck In The Twitter Jam? Try This Hidden Route. | So, I’m a late riser most days (I like to go to bed late, real late). And today when I awoke, I thought it was a Vanilla Sky dream situation — but rather than Tom Cruise being the last person on Earth, I thought I was. You see, like most mo... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | Twitter Lists Competitors Respond: We Can All Get Along | It looked as if Twitter may have dropped a bomb on a number of Twitter -centric third-party apps yesterday by announcing its new Lists feature. It’s a feature that Twitter really should have implemented a while ago for better filtering if n... |
| Sep 23, 2009 | Mallory From Family Ties Could Be A Harbinger Of What's To Come With Twitter Retweets | So Justine Bateman, you know, Mallory Keaton from Family Ties, completely lost her cool this morning with a bunch of people on Twitter. She kept noticing people she doesn’t follow showing up in her tweet stream and proceeded to publicly cal... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | Let's Be Trends: Brizzly Launches A Twitter Trending Topic API | One nice feature of the Twitter web app Brizzly is that it has an explanation for why each trending topic on Twitter is popular at any given moment. And because these explanations are user-editable, they’re always up to date. Now Brizzly wa... |
| Sep 21, 2009 | Brizzly: Faster, Better, More Open | Brizzly, the web-based Twitter client that was first unveiled at our Real-Time Stream Crunchup in July, continues to roll out the improvements. After allowing users to upload and host their own pictures on its servers a few weeks ago, last ... |
| Sep 10, 2009 | Polaris Ventures Opens A Second "Frat House For Geeks," Dog Patch Labs Cambridge | In San Francisco, there’s a nice big space right on the water where startups can go to enjoy a place to work, Dog Patch Labs. Polaris Venture Partners refers to it as their “frat house for geeks,” as it’s a place for entrepreneurs to come a... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Brizzly Adds Photo Uploads. 500 Invites For TC Readers. | Brizzly, the new web-based Twitter client that was first unveiled at our Real-Time Stream CrunchUp in July, has today added a new feature: photo uploads. Users can now upload images to Brizzly’s servers and they will tweet out along with an... |
| Aug 31, 2009 | Twitter search gets threaded with Twitoaster | Twitter search engines have sprouted everywhere this year. But they often list results by time published, stripping them out of context.
French developer Arnaud Meunier wanted to get around that, so he built a conversational search engine t... |
| Aug 31, 2009 | Twitter search gets threaded with Twitoaster | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Twitter search engines have sprouted everywhere t... |
| Aug 18, 2009 | 140 Characters? That's A Lot Of Writing. Just Post A Picture On DailyBooth | It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Translated into this Twitter world we now live in, that’s like, thousands of characters. Thousands easily beats 140, so the people constantly complaining about Twitter’s brevity need to c... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Before There Was Twitter, There Was Blogger. And It's Turning 10. | What were you doing in 1999? Maybe you were following the Kosovo War. Maybe you were starting to use Napster. Maybe you were entering your senior year of high school (I was). Or maybe you started blogging. After all, on August 23, 1999, Pyr... |
| Aug 13, 2009 | Thing Labs releases peek at Twitter client Brizzly | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Thing Labs, a San Francisco start-up made up of s... |
| Aug 2, 2009 | Polaris Ventures Makes A Hire To Bolster Its Dog Patch Labs | Dog Patch Labs is the name of Polaris Ventures‘ San Francisco-based startup incubator, that it launched a little over a year ago. So far, it has helped launch LOLapps and Thing Labs, the startup behind Brizzly, a new Twitter app that was fi... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader | Twitter’s front-end look and feel on the web has been slowly improving over the past several months. But it’s still far from ideal, missing quite a few key elements that users turn to other apps for. And Twitter, with its APIs, is fine with... |
