Brizzly Explained

Brizzly
Type:Social web reader[1]
Owner:Thing Labs
Language:English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Korean
Current Status:Available

Brizzly was a third-party Twitter and Facebook interface. It was unveiled at one of TechCrunch's events in 2009[2] and was acquired by AOL in 2010.[3]

Its features included allowing users to create lists to organize followers,[4] showing user the full in-line links from URL shortening services and showing photos from photo sharing services. It was described as FriendFeed for Twitter.[5]

On October 28, 2009, it released Facebook integration. On November 20, 2009, the Brizzly team announced that it was in open beta.[6]

On March 1, 2012, Brizzly announced it was shutting down at the end of the month in light of time commitments by developers to AIM-related work.[7]

On August 22, 2018, Co-Founder Jason Shellen announced Brizzly is back.[8]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media (2000 Invites Below!) . Readwriteweb.com . 2009-10-05 . 2009-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091031062904/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/brizzly_adds_facebook.php . 2009-10-31 . dead .
  2. Web site: MG Siegler . Brizzly: Faster, Better, More Open . Techcrunch.com . 2009-09-21 . 2009-10-27.
  3. Web site: AOL . AOL acquires social software start up Thing Labs .
  4. Web site: Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader. M. G.. Siegler. 12 August 2016.
  5. Web site: Brizzly – Making Twitter More Like Friendfeed . CenterNetworks . 2009-10-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090910075148/http://www.centernetworks.com/brizzly-making-twitter-more-like-friendfeed . 2009-09-10 . dead .
  6. Web site: Brizzly now open to the public (and other big news) - Thing Labs, Inc. . Thing Labs, Inc. . 2009-11-20 . 2009-11-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091123070253/http://blog.thinglabs.com/2009/11/20/brizzly-now-open-to-the-public/ . November 23, 2009 .
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20120303205832/http://blog.thinglabs.com/post/18566654313/brizzly-is-shutting-the-cave-door Brizzly is shutting the cave door
  8. Web site: Hi, Techcrunch Here with an Amazing New Product, Brizzly.

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