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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…
Being Pedantic: Who built this site??? All of overuse of the " " tags, and the XHTML Transitional doctype. Yeesh!
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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Do any reading apps have pinch zooming? I don't see how pinch zooming would work with reflowing text well.
FWIW, Android's browser has pinch-to-zoom & reflows the text when you stop zooming. Works fine.
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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.
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Which is exactly why I use Instapaper. If you're not the one spending the money, you're the one being sold.
What's stopping Instapaper selling you as well as getting you to pay for it?
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.
I'll have to give the extensions a try when I get a chance.