The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
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Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#2I love Instapaper, but it's especially interesting that Marco has been able to compete against larger groups like Readability and Apple's Reading List. I'm afraid it might be inevitable that he gets swamped by a constant stream of competitive features, unless Instapaper expands beyond 1 employee.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#3I might be wrong, but isn't Instapaper is using the Readability's technology to process HTML and make it more readable? (http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/).
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#4I might be wrong, but isn't Instapaper is using the Readability's technology to process HTML and make it more readable? ( http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/ ).
No, it uses a custom scraper written by Marco. I've found that both of them work better on some pages and worse on others.
(However, I do believe the "Safari Reader" feature of iOS 5 and Safari 5 does use Readability to extract the contents.)
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#5A lot of imaginations among the announcements between Instapaper and Readability.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#6wow, and this didn't even touch on Evernote's Clearly. Busy day in the 'easy mobile reading' space.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#7I love Instapaper, but it's especially interesting that Marco has been able to compete against larger groups like Readability and Apple's Reading List. I'm afraid it might be inevitable that he gets swamped by a constant stream of competitive features, unless Instapaper expands beyond 1 employee.
But if it's just a 1 person company he can afford to stay small and still be highly profitable.
Additionally Readability has stated that they're still figuring out their business model, where as Marco has had a steady income for a long time now. It's entirely possible that Readability vanishes in a few years and Instapaper is still around.
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#8I love Instapaper, but it's especially interesting that Marco has been able to compete against larger groups like Readability and Apple's Reading List. I'm afraid it might be inevitable that he gets swamped by a constant stream of competitive features, unless Instapaper expands beyond 1 employee.
What evidence do you see that being a one-man operation is hurting his business? As far as I can tell Instapaper is still leading the field in features and quality...
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#9The reason I don't develop my ViewText any further is that the barrier to entry for this is just to low. Marco already has an excellent app, now reability will enter his market, along with Apple.
Here's an example: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marco.org%2...
Re: The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
#10I might be wrong, but isn't Instapaper is using the Readability's technology to process HTML and make it more readable? ( http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/ ).
No, it uses a custom scraper written by Marco. I've found that both of them work better on some pages and worse on others. (However, I do believe the "Safari Reader" feature of iOS 5 and Safari 5 does use Readability to extract the contents.)
The "Reader" button appears to be a fork of Readability (http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-re...)
Also of note, the original Readability was actually "partly inspired by" instapaper (http://lab.arc90.com/2009/03/02/readability/)