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Pared-Down, iPhone-Friendly Bookmarking with Instapaper
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 6:50 AM on February 1, 2008
If you like the idea of online bookmarking but don't necessarily care about the "social" or tagging aspects of sites like del.icio.us or Digg, Instapaper is the site for you. Rather than adding browser buttons or relying on specialised icons to add web pages to your story queue, you simply click a bookmarklet to add pages, and hit "Skip" if you want to delegate a link for later reading. All your links are sorted into three categories (Unread, Recently Read, and Recently Skipped) for quick browsing, and the super-clean interface would make even del.icio.us jealous. Better still, the site has an iPhone/iPod touch friendly version. For compiling reading lists or even using as a secondary bookmarking site for projects, Instapaper might be right up your back-to-basics alley. Instapaper is a free service that requires a sign-up.
Tags: bookmarking | bookmarklets | bookmarks | web browsing
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super_bryant
Posted 2:37 AM 1/2/08
does anyone know a rough estimate of how much disk space adding software and such to the Ipod touch takes? cause I'm not sure if I should get the 8 or 16 gb. Right now I have a 4 gb nano thats full? anybody have any suggestions .....is the 16 gb worth the extra hundred dollars?
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zaka
Posted 2:37 AM 1/2/08
Chipmark is an excellent solution for online bookmark management. It's run by a team of students under the guidance of a professor at the University of Minnesota.
zaka
xxdesmus
Posted 2:37 AM 1/2/08
It's works quite well for exactly what the purpose is. I always have a need for a "read this later" list of links.
xxdesmus
edythemighty
Posted 12:37 PM 1/2/08
"iPhone-friendly"? That's just link bait ;P I am lovin Instapaper :D
edythemighty
tallyjen75
Posted 12:37 PM 1/2/08
Interesting bit of information here. I'll have to try that. I have been using Google Bookmarks myself. They have a really simple tool that you can use on your iGoogle home page to add bookmarks to it. That way you can get them on any PC at anytime without any hassle. Super easy to add or remove and to categorize bookmarks in it. It's a widget I found when I googled Online Bookmarks.
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