Look, here’s an RSS reader for Google Glass
Here’s an RSS reader app for Google Glass. Users can save articles to Pocket or email them to themselves to read later. Read more »
How many people are actually “reading it later”? Pocket launches tool for publishers
Pocket, a service that lets users save content for later, is launching a new publisher program. Publishers can add a Pocket button to their websites and can then track how and when their content is consumed over time. Read more at paidContent »
Pocket’s Top 10 lists: view-it-later tools catching on — but will everyone use them?
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Tools like Pocket help you manage a flood of online content by zapping it into a personal box to view later on. The company showed the stories and videos that we’re storing the most — but the tech-heavy nature of its Top 10 lists suggest these tools still await widespread adoption. Read more at paidContent »
Read-it-later service Pocket launches Mac app
Pocket, which allows users to save content from the web to view later, has added a Mac app to its lineup of iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and web apps. Read more »
Listen up! Pocket reads saved articles aloud on Android
A solid app gets even better today with the ability to read aloud saved articles on an Android device. This will make Pocket, already one of my most used apps, an even bigger part of my day, allowing me to hear offline articles at spare moments. Read more »
Longreads offers some exclusive content to paying members
Longform journalism site Longreads is giving paying members exclusive access to long-form content that is not available elsewhere on the web. The first selection is a chapter from Charles Duhigg’s bestselling book “The Power of Habit.” Read more at paidContent »
Should you use Kindle’s new read-it-later feature?
Amazon launched a “Send to Kindle” extension for Google Chrome that lets users send articles to their Kindle. Other services, like Pocket and Instapaper, can do the same thing. Which one should you use? Read more at paidContent »
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) raises $5m in second funding round
Pocket, the web-content-saving company formerly known as Read It Later, has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round and will use the money to expand its platform. The company now has nearly six million users. Read more at paidContent »
Readability ends publisher payment program
Readability, a web and mobile app that lets users save content to read later, is ending the publisher payment program it launched in February 2011. Surprisingly, many readers paid — but most publishers didn’t collect the funds. Read more at paidContent »
Instapaper for Android arrives. Will users buy it?
Another of the most popular iOS applications makes the move to Android as Instapaper becomes available in Google Play. Marco Arment, Instapaper’s creator, has noted that Android users prefer free software, so will they buy his app or opt for a free alternative? Read more »
Read It Later’s app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket
Read It Later is making its app completely free — no more premium version — and renaming it Pocket to express the fact that users can save any type of content, not just articles. Read more at paidContent »
More like watch it later: video is huge on Read It Later
Instapaper competitor Read It Later isn’t just used to bookmark articles found on the web, but also to keep tabs of a whole lot of videos. In fact, YouTube has become the most popular domain for Read It Later since the service added video suppport. Read more »
App downloads are (Kindle) Fire-d up!
Amazon’s Kindle Fire was one of the most popular devices on sale this holiday season. The tablet, which is based on a version of Android OS, is expected to rival iPad. Data from Read It Later, a time-shifted reading app, only proves that point. Read more »
Shifting reading habits boost Read It Later in 2011
Read It Later is one of the quiet success stories of the tablet and smartphone revolution. What started as a simple Firefox extension is now a much-used tool for our shifting reading habits, thanks to the emergence of new mobile devices. Read more »
Is There A Business Model To Support Some Of The Great New Curation Tools?
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I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more at paidContent »
