Business Opportunities Weblog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
On the sixth floor of a trendy building in San Francisco’s recently renovated Mint Plaza, four former Google employees — scratch that: five former Googlers, with today’s addition of FriendFeed’s (now Facebook’s) Ben Darnell — and a few others are working on things, reports The Los Angeles Times. Founder Jason Shellen is purposely fuzzy with his [...]...
bub.blicio.us (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... Here’s some photos from the event: Team TechCrunch is ready to blog – Leena Rao, MG Siegler & Jason Kincaid. Michael Arrington & Steve Gilmore interviewing Dick Costolo, Twitter’s COO. Erick Schonfeld & Steve Gilmore moderating panel on Filtering the Stream. Feat. Jason Shellen, Kimbal Musk, Bret Taylor, Loic Le Meur, Chris Cox, Lili Cheng, Ron Conway, Amit Singhal, Jason...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... column. If you dare. Update : As former Google Reader team member (and current Thing Labs founder) Jason Shellen notes , favicons have been on the product road map since 2005. Maybe better never than late? CrunchBase Information Google Reader Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network : CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
Tomedes Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... but apart from its features it has some very talented people working on it backstage, they include Jason Shellen from Blogger, Chris Wetherell who is credited as a creator of Google Reader and Ben Darnell who has worked for both Google and Facebook. Similar Posts: Google adds new languages to Google Translate A round up of the best online translation tools Facebook goes Latin Twitter...
Money & Company (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
What do you get when you put five former Google Inc. employees together with a few other talented programmers in a small office in San Francisco? Some very interesting things. Jason Shellen, founder of Thing Labs, launched Brizzly today after...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... — Ben Darnell, an early Google employee who worked on Reader with Thing Labs chief executive Jason Shellen. He left for FriendFeed, all of two weeks before it was sold to Facebook. Thing Labs is backed by Polaris Venture Partners and Ron Conway. And one last easter egg, if you tweet ‘#jacob’ or ‘#edward’ into Brizzly, it will change to a Twilight theme....
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... — Ben Darnell, an early Google employee who worked on Reader with Thing Labs chief executive Jason Shellen . He left for FriendFeed, all of two weeks before it was sold to Facebook. Thing Labs is backed by Polaris Venture Partners and Ron Conway. And one last easter egg, if you tweet ‘#jacob’ or ‘#edward’ into Brizzly, it will change to a Twilight theme....
Mashable (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... is trying to compete in a very crowded space, but have an exceptionally strong team including Jason Shellen, who worked at Blogger with Evan Williams, and Chris Wetherell, who’s credited with having created Google Reader. Today, the company also announced they’ve added another ex-Googler to the mix, Ben Darnell, who was most recently working for Facebook via the social...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... acquisition . But Darnell’s ties run close to Brizzly as he’s a former Googler like Thing Labs’ Jason Shellen , Chris Wetherell , Dolapo Falola. At Google, Darnell was one of the original Google Reader team members. With Brizzly, Darnell will work on “ larger framework for communication and content discovery ,” Shellen tells us. This means he’ll be working on their infrastructure...
Voices (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... was an early Google (GOOG) employee and worked on the Google Reader team with Thing Labs founders Jason Shellen and Chris Wetherell. Here are two screenshots–one off Brizzly’s new public beta offering and one of the translation feature:
