5 posts and columns on Jason Shellen

A Few Holiday Photos From Tech's Cool Kids: What They Did on Winter Vacation

in News on January 2, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

For many in tech, 2010 was the year of photo sharing. So, in honor of a big year of sharing photos with friends, here is a quick gallery of shots from the holidays, gathered with care from the walls and feeds of a few of tech’s most social shutterbugs.

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In AOL's Shopping Spree, One More Thing: Thing Labs

in News on September 28, 2010 at 4:08 pm PT

AOL had best take a breather before its checkbook overheats and seizes up. On top of today’s confirmation of the acquisitions of the TechCrunch blog empire and video distribution start-up 5Min Media, AOL announced it had purchased Thing Labs, maker of the Brizzly family of Web-based social software. The Thing Labs team, headed by Google and Blogger vet Jason Shellen, will continue to oversee Brizzly and the integration of some of its features into AIM and AOL Lifestream. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Almost Famous Update: Now-Out-of-Beta Brizzly Hires Facebooker and Translates Tweets

in News on November 20, 2009 at 8:00 am PT

Brizzly, the Web-based Twitter client from Thing Labs, covered in Almost Famous two weeks ago, begins public beta today. In addition to opening its “expanded” Twitter interface to the world at large, the start-up is offering an on-the-fly translation tool for foreign tweets. And it has hired former FriendFeeder and current Facebooker Ben Darnell.
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Almost Famous: Brizzly's Chris Wetherell

in News on November 6, 2009 at 12:05 am PT

This week: A video visit with, some questions for and a few pertinent stats about Chris Wetherell and his creation, Brizzly, a Web-based social media reader.
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Meet Drake Meeting Brizzly: A Spanking New ATD Feature

in News on November 6, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

Today, All Things Digital debuts a new feature called “Almost Famous” in our Voices section. No, it is not about Kate Hudson and nascent rock stars. Well, you might meet geek rock stars to be. Focused on innovative, interesting or just plain odd start-ups, we thought it was a good way for our readers to get a gander at some up-and-coming ideas and trends. It will be penned by Drake Martinet every Friday.
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