San Francisco
– Thing Labs, a developer of Web-based software that includes social media
content aggregator Brizzly, has acquired Twitter iPhone application Birdfeed,
and Wikirank, a tool for visualizing Wikipedia data, GigaOM reports.
Financial terms of the
acquisitions were not disclosed.
Thing Labs’ Brizzly recently debuted a
wiki-format guide to trending topics on Twitter.
The company says it will
integrate Wikirank’s technology into the Brizzly Guide in coming months.
Out of
the Birdfeed acquisition, a new Brizzly iPhone application was launched today,
allowing users to post to multiple social media services from their
smartphones.
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(GigaOM)
