Last week, Nik Cubrilovic and I put out a side project called Frictionless. Frictionless is a browser extension that lets you read articles shared on Facebook without being nagged to add newfangled social-reader apps.
Ironically (I live in constant fear of misusing this word), the project started with a Facebook status update and comment thread then was finished in a few days over Facebook chat. We originally named the extension Frictionless Clicking but got scooped by TechCrunch, who chopped off the “Clicking”. We adopted the truncated name.
Here are a couple more articles that describe Frictionless better than I — and require no apps to read:
Letters to the Editor