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Ginx: Pierre Omidyar's Stealthy New Social Recommendation Service
ReadWriteWeb —
... eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has joined the executive team of a stealthy new startup called Ginx, according to financial findings unearthed by ...
Pierre Omidyar Is Getting His Ginx On (Co-founder Status Confirmed).
TechCrunch —
... Pierre Omidyar left eBay long ago to become a billionaire philanthropist and angel investor, but he is taking on an operational role in a new startup called Peer News. It operates a Twitter app called Ginx currently in “private pre-alpha.” That means nobody but Pierre and a few pals are supposed to know about it. But ...
eBay Founder Omidyar Launching New Startup Ginx, A Twitter-Based Sharing Tool
paidContent —
... So the company has now issued a release confirming Ginx is being created by Peer News, co-founded by Omidyar and eBay's former classified ads VP Randy Ching: "Ginx is a Twitter client that aims to provide Twitter users with a rich experience for sharing and discussing links. Ginx was created to enable people to become more actively engaged in the news and topics they care about." ...
Ginx, an easier way to see what people are sharing on Twitter
VentureBeat —
Ginx describes itself as a tool for sharing news through Twitter. But it’s not just that, it’s also a better interface for using core Twitter features than Twitter itself. I’ve been playing around with the service, which is still in private testing mode — already, it’s helping me to better see what’s worth reading on Twitter, and who might be interesting to follow.
Lets say somebody tweets a link to a news article. Ginx shows me the logo of the publication, the headline of the story, and a thumbnailed image if available. That way I know ...
Ginx Reinvents Twitter’s Interface For The Sake Of Sharing
TechCrunch —
I met up with Randy Ching, co-founder of Ginx alongside eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, this afternoon to finally get a glimpse of what their secret startup is all about.
We first wrote about Ginx last month when it was revealed that parent company Peer News had raised $2 million in funding. At the time, we could only infer its purpose from Omidyar’s twitter account, which was hooked into Ginx somehow.
Now we know that it’s basically an interface for Twitter on steroids. Ching explains that the most fundamental purpose behind Ginx is to help people ...
Pierre Omidyar's New Ginx Looks Like a Dud
ReadWriteWeb —
Remember that link I shared on Twitter yesterday? What if I told you I had a new tool that would help you find it again...and all it would cost was 1 year of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's time? That would be insane, would it not?
That's exactly what we saw, though, when we got a sneak peak today at Omidyar's new product Ginx. We wrote about Ginx when PE Hub first caught wind of its funding last month. We hoped it would incorporate all kinds of data-intensive recommendation mystery awesomeness. It might later, but so far it's quite simple and we ...
Ginx does Twitter better than Twitter does
Webware.com —
... Ginx, a buzzy new startup co-founded by eBay's Pierre Omidyar, has begun to release its Twitter front-end into a limited private "pre-alpha." The upshot is this: If you're a Twitter.com user and you got one of the of the coveted beta invites, use Ginx. It's better than Twitter.com for accessing your Twitter feeds. Ginx is competitive with Twitter desktop apps, like Tweetdeck and Twhirl, although there are things that the clients do that Ginx does not.
Ginx's big improvements over Twitter.com are in two areas: First, it handles links better. ...
ClikBall: A Slick New Way to Share Links, From the Creator of Userscripts.org
ReadWriteWeb —
Ginx Helps You Find And Follow The Experts on Twitter
TechCrunch —
... Each group on Ginx is created and administered by a single owner who determines who the experts are in a particular field or category. For example, here’s a group of journalists who are focused on covering Apple news. It’s run by the user ...
Ginx does Twitter groups (invites!)
Webware.com —
... We have 100 invities to the private test version of Ginx for Webware readers. Use the invite code A79C5098E6B4. If you get in, I created a Ginx group of CNET writers you can follow: @CNETWriters. ...
ExecTweets: A sponsored Twitter app with twist
Webware.com —
Twitter and online advertising company Federated Media earlier today rolled out ExecTweets, a Microsoft-sponsored site featuring Twitter feeds from "top business execs." ...
Ebay Founder Omidyar Shuttering His Twitter Project Ginx, To Launch Online News Site
ReadWriteWeb —
... that he's closing down his Twitter client Ginx early next year and instead focusing on an online local news project. We reviewed a "private pre-alpha" version of Ginx in February and ...
