Between the Lines

Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King
Home / News & Blogs / Between the Lines

AOL acquires Thing Labs to follow up TechCrunch, 5min purchase

By | September 28, 2010, 1:43pm PDT

Fresh from its acquisition of TechCrunch, AOL picked up Thing Labs, a social software company.

With Thing Labs, AOL has three tuck-in acquisitions in just a few hours (Techmeme). Thing Labs is known for its Brizzly social software. Earlier Tuesday, AOL bought 5min Media, a video syndication platform.

AOL said it will take Brizzly and allow its users to share and discover content. AOL will integrate Brizzly with its Lifestream platform, which aggregates social networks and integrates them with AIM.

Thing Labs CEO Jason Shellen and Christopher Wetherell, vice president of product and engineering, will lead AOL’s AIM products.

Brad Garlinghouse, president of AOL’s consumer applications group, said the acquisition was also about grabbing talent.

We have to fundamentally change the way we think about the consumer experience and the team at Thing Labs has a vision and a track record of success that we think will help truly transform the messaging space.

Thing Labs was founded in June 2008.

Related:

Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily e-mail newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.

More from “Between the Lines”

Topics

TechCrunch, America Online Inc., Thing Labs, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Collaboration, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.

Disclosure

Larry Dignan

Larry Dignan has nothing to disclose. He doesn’t hold investments in the technology companies he covers.

Biography

Larry Dignan

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic. He was most recently Executive Editor of News and Blogs at ZDNet. Prior to that he was executive news editor at eWeek and news editor at Baseline. He also served as the East Coast news editor and finance editor at CNET News.com. Larry has covered the technology and financial services industry since 1995, publishing articles in WallStreetWeek.com, Inter@ctive Week, The New York Times, and Financial Planning magazine. He's a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of Delaware.

For daily updates, follow Larry on Twitter.

2
Comments
Add Your Opinion

Join the conversation!

Just In

RE: AOL acquires Thing Labs to follow up TechCrunch, 5min purchase
tomlin21-24319035676893835085146735905770 11th Oct
Blunders certainly are a element of getting human. Get pleasure from your goof ups for what there're: important residing lessons which may only be recognized the difficult way. Besides it nfl wholesale is a lethal error, which, a minimum of, consumers can find out from.
View in thread
0 Votes
+ -
RE: AOL acquires Thing Labs to follow up TechCrunch, 5min purchase
dsafhsdkjhfkj 28th Sep 2010
Take a look:

dearsales.com


Here have what you need!


It's very good!
0 Votes
+ -
RE: AOL acquires Thing Labs to follow up TechCrunch, 5min purchase
tomlin21-24319035676893835085146735905770 11th Oct
Blunders certainly are a element of getting human. Get pleasure from your goof ups for what there're: important residing lessons which may only be recognized the difficult way. Besides it nfl wholesale is a lethal error, which, a minimum of, consumers can find out from.

Join the conversation!

Formatting +
BB Codes - Note: HTML is not supported in forums
  • [b] Bold [/b]
  • [i] Italic [/i]
  • [u] Underline [/u]
  • [s] Strikethrough [/s]
  • [q] "Quote" [/q]
  • [ol][*] 1. Ordered List [/ol]
  • [ul][*] · Unordered List [/ul]
  • [pre] Preformat [/pre]
  • [quote] "Blockquote" [/quote]
ie8 fix

The best of ZDNet, delivered

ZDNet Newsletters

Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox

Facebook Activity

Blog Roll

Blog Archive

White Papers, Webcasts, & Resources
ie8 fix