13 Mar 2010

Instapaper: Now Even More Useful with Email

I love services I can interact with via email. I can post to my Facebook page via email and I can do the same here. One of my favorite services is Instapaper. I use it to bookmark and save articles to read later, which I often do in bulk on long plane rides.

Earlier this week it quietly added a killer new feature. You can now email in URLs or newsletters and it will save them to your Instapaper account for perusal later. I find this invaluable. 

Kudos to Marco Arment for continuing to build out a killer product. This is by far the most valuable service I have added to my arsenal over the last year or so. And it continues to get better. You can get the details here at the bottom of the page.

16 Aug 2009

Bookmarklets: Instapaper Gets Even Tighter with Google Reader

Is RSS dead in the age of the stream? Not for me. I still use Google Reader a lot. It's how I keep ahead. And while I still believe RSS won't catch on with the mainstream it's still a very important technology to watch. Emerging services like PubSubHubbub will help RSS will get faster and power new real-time services.

If you use RSS chances are you're a news junkie. One of my favorite complementary services is Instapaper, which allows you to save articles for future reading on any mobile device.

Over the weekend Marco Arment posted a killer update to the code that makes it easy to bookmark any article in Google Reader directly off the desktop and/or mobile version. This works faster and better than other solutions. Not only does this save a news item for future reading but Instapaper will also follow the link to the original source too and cache it. You can learn more here.
2 Jul 2009

Video Interview: Marco Arment of Instapaper

I took a quick trip uptown today to learn more about Tumblr and meet with their team. (I will have a video interview next week up with Tumblr's co-founder, David Karp.)

While I was there I shot this five-minute interview with Marco Arment, who developed Instapaper as a side project. (Follow him on Twitter @MarcoArment)

If you haven't tried the fantastic Instapaper service, be sure to check it out. Instapaper, which works on many mobile devices, is really for active web readers. It makes it a snap to save articles for future reading. Though we don't have it on video, Marco showed me some of the forthcoming features in Instapaper 2.1 for the iPhone. The new version, which should be out in a few weeks, has stronger integration with Twitter and Tumblr.

24 Jun 2009

Instapaper 2.0 Turns Every RSS Feed Full-Text

via youtube.com

Watch this screencast - particularly the part where the New York Times is added as a folder. Note that the app doesn't just pull down the text in the feed but the full text of every article - and then makes it available in a mobile format on your device.

24 Jun 2009

Instapaper Becomes an Awesome Techememe Reader

Instapaper Pro for the iPhone got a nice upgrade last night that turns it into a mini feed reader of sorts. The best feature is that it will automatically download the full text of the top articles on Techmeme, not just the links.

   
Click here to download:
Instapaper_Becomes_an_Awesome_.zip (110 KB)

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