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Fimoculous.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Brijit , the site that I praised for its 100-word article capsules, has closed shop . Three days ago, Owen at Valleywag wrote of the site, "Until someone finds a cure for logorrhea, both Brijit and Valleywag will have a market." Guess not.
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overstated (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
The long-form article summarization service Brijit decided to close its doors today . It would appear that their business model (paying people to summarize long-form news articles) was not viable. I may be in the minority, but I used the tool as a clipping service, subscribing to feeds of articles about the industry (Facebook, Social Networks, etc.). I’m really sad to see it go; it was one of the...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
It seems like just yesterday—well, late October, anyway— Brijit.com , the website that read and summarized magazines, was launched. At the time, The Washington Post 's Frank Ahrens profiled Brijit's founder, Jeremy Brosowsky, and wrote, "[T]he Internet is littered with good ideas that turn out to be bad businesses, and online publishing can be especially tricky: Do you go mass-market or niche? Subscription-based,...
