Colin O'Malley

Pull tweets and threads into Briefly

So far, the content in Briefly has been primarily based on links to articles. Articles are wonderful, but we’re beginning to cast a wider…

Weekly streaks up on anchor pages

On the top of many of your anchor pages, you will now see a weekly streak board. These are the folks that have been consistently active in…

to Twitter share enhancements

We’ve just launched a few Twitter share enhancements that make the Briefly to Twitter and back experience much easier and more personal.

Tags come to posts

For the past few months, we have been experimenting with tags on posts. Our first version of tags included ‘keywords’ derived from the…

Pick the right anchor from Twitter

For the those of you using the @reply feature from Twitter, you may have noticed that your posts have been receiving the ‘From Twitter’…

Moving to a single anchor system

So we’ve made a rather large architectural change to Briefly that may not be immediately apparent to folks cruising through the…

A major UX refresh for Briefly

So far, Briefly has been all about highlights. Mostly text highlights, but also image highlights. When you highlight, you are identifying…

Images light up Briefly

We recently released a new feature to brighten up your stripped down Briefly experience: images!

At reply for highlights from within Twitter

We have an excellent feature for you as we prepare for a pandemic adjusted Thanksgiving here in the US. To everyone celebrating (or just…

Automatic Highlighting in Tweets: launch notes for July

So we’re just a few weeks out of the gate and we’re having a good ride already. Thanks to everyone that has given Briefly a spin and for…

PLOW is now Briefly

It’s been a long while since we’ve posted here. We’ve been cranking on a re-imagining of how to meet our initial goal with PLOW, and after…

October ’17 Release: Beautiful Twitter shares and SSR

Over the last few months, we’ve been working on adding “SSR” to Plow. What does that mean?

September ‘17 Release: PLOW is now location aware

We have a ton of location specific communities that are developing in PLOW, so we decided to invest in making anchors location aware and…

We’re here to break our silence after a long period with our heads down.

Is your digest too small? Follow a few more anchors and you’ll soon be topped up with great content, curated by your peers.

Release notes for April: Major keyboard controls, performance, and search

I’m only on the east coast for a few more months, so I’m relishing this last significant transition from winter to spring. This year, the…

Release notes for March: Fortifying Earhart

Greetings fellow travelers!

Locked in for 2017

The new year is here. A time to reassess, recalibrate, reinvent. When we started PLOW, we were deeply concerned about a click bait oriented…

Release Notes for December: Profile feeds

December is upon us and we can already smell the holiday cheer. At PLOW, we’re focussing internally right now, on the things that we can…

PLOW reborn with project ‘Earhart’

For months now, we’ve been pretty quiet on new features for PLOW. It pains us to work on initiatives that our users can’t see for extended…

Addressing the Troll Pandemic

Here at Plow we are starting to tell our points of view on the state of web content and social media in a new series of blog posts. This is…

Humans do it better

Here at Plow we are starting to tell our points of view on the state of web content and social media in a new series of blog posts. This is…

Release 2.7: Revamped Endorsements, Mobile UI, and anchor follow alerts

It’s cold, dark and rainy here in NYC this morning, but we’re upbeat because we have another big release to share for PLOW. We’ll create…

Release 2.7: Revamped Endorsements, Mobile UI, and anchor follow alerts

It’s cold, dark and rainy here in NYC this morning, but we’re upbeat because we have another big release to share. We’ll create our own sunshine, dagnabbit! Our endorsement module gets it’s biggest UI refresh yet. We’re now showing multiple anchors by default, giving you

Release 2.6: Boosted Comments

Dearest citizens of PLOW - You’ve really spoiled us with the commentary. When we browse content on PLOW, we’re struck by how often the community is leaving thoughtful, original comments on items. In many cases, the comments are even better than the original item. With release 2.6,

Comments with muscle

Dearest PLOW people - PLOW is a forum for thoughtful curation and discussion. We have been very impressed with the quality of the commentary that you have provided on top of content so far and we want to give you tools to make that process easier and more rewarding. With