On Monday Facebook announced a new “Save” bookmarking feature for reading links later. It’s a helpful tool for decreasing news feed clutter, but it furthers the company’s shift away from social. Read more »
Pushing its one app for any Windows device concept, Microsoft released Reading List for Windows Phone 8.1. The app already exists on Windows 8.1 and syncs saved web content for later reading. Read more »
Although Chrome for Android is a super browser, I’m shocked that there’s still no native method to show just the content of a web page without ads or annoying distractions. Safari… Read more »
Pinterest is making it easier for users to save text-based articles to the site. The move is likely to attract more media companies to Pinterest, and may also prevent some users… Read more »
For the last few months, Instapaper creator Marco Arment has laid low. After selling his smash iOS app Instapaper to Betaworks in AprilĀ and tablet publication The MagazineĀ to the rest of its… Read more »
Is save and read it later service Pocket becoming like my old (forgotten TiVo) — lot of saving and a lot less reading? CEO of Pocket says no, not really. But… Read more »
Digg isn’t a newcomer to the social news scene — in fact, it helped pioneer the concept. But the folks at Betaworks are re-imaginging social news for 2013, and the RSS… Read more »
Marco Arment sees a bright future for read-it-later services, and says that Instapaper’s acquisition by Betaworks will allow it to get some new features that he hasn’t had time to add. Read more »
New media incubator Betaworks has acquired Marco Arment’s popular read-it-later platform Instapaper. Betaworks acquired Digg last year, and the firm is focusing on both short-form and long-form content companies. Read more »