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Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by LinaLauneBaer »

camiller wrote: post #19

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…

The good thing is that Instapaper's extraction process can be modified by anyone who has an account:

http://www.instapaper.com/bodytext (Login required)

So if something is not working properly you can improve Instapaper on a site by site basis.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by camiller »

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #43
camiller wrote: post #19

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…

The first H1 tag might be better (and would also work in this case).

The first H1 tag in the computerworlduk article says "Blogs", the second has the title.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by camiller »

LinaLauneBaer wrote: post #51
camiller wrote: post #19

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…

The good thing is that Instapaper's extraction process can be modified by anyone who has an account: http://www.instapaper.com/bodytext (Login required) So if something is not working properly you can improve Instapaper on a site by site basis.

I had no idea you could do that! That's cooler than the other side of the pillow!

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by jubos »

thoradam wrote: post #12

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.

Spool is still here, and still transcoding and caching videos. We got some new stuff coming down the pipe, so stay tuned.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

stuartmemo wrote: post #41
jamesgeck0 wrote: post #33

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.

Bookmarklet works fine for me in Chrome.

The bookmarklet works in Chromium on my Ubuntu box, but not on this machine (18.0.1025.162 m, Windows Vista).

The Pocket extension in the Chrome web store works perfectly and looks prettier. I don't know why they didn't just link to it in the first place.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by msh »

timkeller wrote: post #35
hopeless wrote: post #27

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…

Which is exactly why I use Instapaper. If you're not the one spending the money, you're the one being sold.

But unfortunatly there are no good Instapaper client for android.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by vincentmac »

camiller wrote: post #19

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…

I just tried adding that Microsoft article via the Pocket Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/niloccemoadcdkdjli...) and had no problems with it identifying the content correctly.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by SupermanScott »

there wrote: post #45
Splines wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It doesn't seem to take long for products-named-after-common-words to rank high on Google (though search in the Play store has always been horrible). Case in point: my Pushover app/service was released about a month ago and is on the first page of Google results for "pushover", despite there being a game and movie of the same name.

I pretty sure that is Search Plus Your World customizing the results for you.

pushover.net is number 10 when I search in an incognito window.

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by kyleslattery »

msh wrote: post #56
timkeller wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is exactly why I use Instapaper. If you're not the one spending the money, you're the one being sold.

But unfortunatly there are no good Instapaper client for android.

Papermill? http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/23/2897938/papermill-is-the-f...

Re: Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later)

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Post by rubergly »

ajross wrote: post #36

Just tried it. Criticism #1: authentication management borderline sucks: I have to create an account name, not just use an email adderess. Why? Does this get displayed to other people? Not that I can see. Similarly, why no distributed authentication options? I'd have been happy to log in via Facebook or Google for this app. There's no reason they'd be told what I was looking at, just that I was reading stuff on pocke…

Do any reading apps have pinch zooming? I don't see how pinch zooming would work with reflowing text well.
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