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Bookmarklets are great and all, but I hope they make a Chrome extension. It took me a moment to remember how to turn the bookmark bar on. Edit: Especially since the bookmarklet doesn't appear to work in Chrome.
The key part here is that it is tailored for any kind of content as opposed to just text, everything you'd like to "view later". Spool ( http://getspool.com/ ) did this as well, with the twist that they actually scrape content (videos and all) to save to your devices to view offline. For some reason it doesn't seem like Spool ever took off.
The Pocket homepage suggests the same functionality: "If it's in Pocket, it's on your phone, tablet or computer. You don't even need an Internet connection."
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/04/17/read-it-later-rebrands...
OK, I think the bookmarklet/text scraper needs a little tweeking. I just tried Pocket's bookmarklet vs. Instapapers's on the "How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards" article that is also on the Hacker News front page. Pocket mis-identified the headline, instead getting the name of the blog. In fact the title of the article/blog post is not anywhere in Pocket's scrape. Link to the article: http://blogs.computerworld…
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Not diss'ing your app btw. The screenshot looks nice. I'm just not sure what the comparison is supposed to be showing
I think the name Pocket is absolutely perfect. It lends itself to a really clear and understandable marketing slogan ("Don't have time to read it now? Just put it in your Pocket!") but also leaves room for how the company might grow and expand in the coming years. "What else can you put in your Pocket?" I'm sure they have that written on a whiteboard in their office with 30 bulleted items below it detailing what they…
It's not a great name for search though. I couldn't find it on Google, and it's nowhere near the top in App Store search. It's possible it'll get better as the name gains popularity, but telling someone "Search for 'Pocket'" isn't going to work right now.
However, I immediately noticed it seems anyone can add any content to anyone’s queue if they know or guess their username — since everyone sends mail to the same address (add@getpocket.com), you only have to forge the From: email header (which is, of course, trivially easy).
As a long-time ReadItLater user, I'm not too impressed with the "Pocket" rebranding ("Read It Later" made it obvious what it did) but the new iOS app solves most of the issues I had with it (it auto-resolve bit.ly links, pulls in titles even if the client app didn't add them, etc). And it looks much better. Readability still has a more readable text-only view but I assume Pocket could just tweak the CSS (slightly lar…
Do you worry that Google is free? Or Facebook? Or Twitter? Also, regarding the name, I think it's great. Otherwise we'd be living in a world of searchtheinternet.com or SharePhotosWithFilters for iPhone!
OK, I think the bookmarklet/text scraper needs a little tweeking. I just tried Pocket's bookmarklet vs. Instapapers's on the "How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards" article that is also on the Hacker News front page. Pocket mis-identified the headline, instead getting the name of the blog. In fact the title of the article/blog post is not anywhere in Pocket's scrape. Link to the article: http://blogs.computerworld…
Some web devs (like me! :D) are lazy and make the tag always just the website's name.