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| Type of site | Social web reader |
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| Available in | English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Korean |
| Owner | Thing Labs |
| URL | brizzly |
| Current status | Available |
Brizzly was a third-party Twitter and Facebook interface. It was unveiled at one of TechCrunch's events in 2009 and was acquired by AOL in 2010.
Its features included allowing users to create lists to organize followers, 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.
On October 28, 2009, it released Facebook integration. On November 20, 2009, the Brizzly team announced that it was in open beta.
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.
On August 22, 2018, Co-Founder Jason Shellen announced Brizzly is back.
See also
References
- ^ "Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media (2000 Invites Below!)". Readwriteweb.com. 2009-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-10-31. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- MG Siegler (2009-09-21). "Brizzly: Faster, Better, More Open". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
- AOL. "AOL acquires social software start up Thing Labs".
- Siegler, M. G. "Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader". Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- "Brizzly – Making Twitter More Like Friendfeed". CenterNetworks. Archived from the original on 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
- "Brizzly now open to the public (and other big news) - Thing Labs, Inc". Thing Labs, Inc. 2009-11-20. Archived from the original on November 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
- Brizzly is shutting the cave door
- "Hi, Techcrunch Here with an Amazing New Product, Brizzly".
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