Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months.
It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your TwitterTwitter
stream, threaded DMs, and built-in photo uploading. It also recently added support for Twitter Lists. However, it’s remained in invite-only mode. That changes today though, as BrizzlyBrizzly
is flipping the switch and allowing anyone to sign up for an account.
The company tells us that they’ll “still be in beta for a bit, which just means we’ll be continuing to experiment as usual.” One of those experiments, which launches today, is on-the-fly translation of tweets, which in theory lets you follow people who tweet in different languages and have them translated into your language of choice in your stream.Brizzly is trying to compete in a very crowded space, but have an exceptionally strong team including Jason Shellen, who worked at Bloggerblogger
with Evan Williams, and Chris Wetherell, who’s credited with having created Google ReaderGoogle Reader
. Today, the company also announced they’ve added another ex-Googler to the mix, Ben Darnell, who was most recently working for FacebookFacebook
via the social network’s acquisition of FriendFeed.
If you’re not yet familiar with the product, this video gives a brief overview:
Let us know what you think of Brizzly in the comments.
This looks pretty interesting. Definitely would love to see more Google Reader like functionality in this space.
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