About Nozzl Media

Nozzl Media was born of a journalist’s dream: that vast repositories of public records could be scoured by software robots and made easily available online to citizens. Steve Suo, a former reporter for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, enlisted Brian Hendrickson, a software jack-of-all-trades, to build the robots.

Hendrickson had his own, seemingly unrelated dream: that microblogs, which are services similar to Twitter, could be open. Rather than having to use Twitter, users could create their own open source microblogging communities. Network members could communicate with one another just as they do on Twitter. But unlike Twitter, the networks — and their members — could communicate across a variety of user created microblog networks.

These two Portlanders put their dreams together to create a potent one-two punch: a real-time microblog stream that could deliver public records gathered by software robots. This content stream has expanded to include aggregated news content, social media and multimedia content, as well as advertising such as classified ads, display ads, coupons and real-time deal alerts.

Joined by journalist Steve Woodward and marketer Greg Griffiths, the team officially became an Oregon C corporation in April 2009.

Currently nearing beta release, this software is targeted for use by local newspapers and broadcast news operations. It comes in two flavors: a mobile version that delivers locational advertising and a web version that can be embedded on a news website.