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Brijit Launches Facebook App
Written by Allen Stern - February 5, 2008
Brijit is a Web service that creates 100 word abstracts of many magazines and some blogs to help you find the most important articles. Check out our interview with Editor-In-Chief Jeremy Brosowsky to learn more about how Brijit works. I think of Brijit as the Cliff Notes for Web content.
Today Brijit has launched a semi-useful Facebook application. I've posted a screenshot of the application below and it's pretty basic - shows you three articles in latest, popular and recommended. I say semi-useful because unlike poking, picking, dunking, and plucking, the app has some meat to it as a time-saver. But only showing three stories and then clicking off to Brijit's Web site is lame. There's also no customization for categories. C'mon guys, let's make this more robust so that I can recommend it to my Facebook friends.
It does appear that they are doing a very heavy hiring push.
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Allen:
Thanks for the mention, and for noticing Brijit for Facebook's value as a time-saver. Hope you're well.
To your concern, the seed kernels of customization are already there, we'll be growing them over time, and we're committed to continuing to look for the best UI for dealing with hundreds of sources, thousands of subjects, etc., within the Facebook environment.
But the real point of the app is that Brijit for Facebook is a no-hassle, zero-effort way for friends to compare recommendations across 100 of the world's most trusted sources. I hope you'll start using the app and eventually upgrade your assessment from "semi-useful" to "super-duper useful and fun, too."
More here: http://brijit.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/brijit-for-facebook-will-save-you-time-and-make-you-smarter-seriously/
Best,
Jeremy Brosowsky
founder and editor-in-chief, Brijit
but where are the friend's recommendations? I didn't see it.
On the application page, "Your Friends' Activity On Brijit" is at the very top of the page. On your Facebook Profile page, "Your Friends' Activity On Brijit" is the first section, but it's collapsed. Hope this helps.
-Jeremy
It's one step at a time for new ideas like this. In a way, this reminds of the Newseum Web site. It's a Web site that shows you all the front pages of newspapers from the world all over. I checked out my own country and was thrilled to find two papers there. Except that they weren't exactly the titles I really read. Still needs more tweaking and more connecting with other people. Perhaps Brijit is in the same stage. Hopefully, it will be able to rise to expectations and then you can go on recommending it. :)