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 at GigaOM »
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 »
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 »
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 at GigaOM »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 at GigaOM »
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 »
Who Are The Most-Read Authors On The Web?
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Which authors online keep readers coming back for more? Read It Later delved into its data to find which articles its 4 million users saved… Read more »
Longreads Founder Partners With Read It Later
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Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial… Read more »
