Comments on: Pocket’s Top 10 lists: view-it-later tools catching on — but will everyone use them? http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/20/pockets-top-10-lists-view-it-later-tools-catching-on-but-will-everyone-use-them/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kfinn http://paidcontent.org/2012/12/20/pockets-top-10-lists-view-it-later-tools-catching-on-but-will-everyone-use-them/#comment-191233 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:07:49 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=222401#comment-191233 I think the value of a service like Pocket goes beyond just “reading it later”. Let me give you an example. Rather than individually saving articles for later consumption, I do it wholesale for my favorite websites using ifttt and RSS feeds. Basically, ifttt turns Pocket into an offline version of Google Reader by enabling the auto download and tagging of a website’s RSS feed. This way, when you are offline (e.g. on an airplane) you have all of your websites available for reading (fed by RSS via ifttt into Pocket). The power of Pocket is about taking the Internet offline as much as it is about reading it later.

I can’t wait for these services to get better and help enable a broader set of offline interactions with various web services. (Gogobot sure could use an offline site for those traveling internationally.)

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