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Our hackday project: Readshout.com

87 points by tikhon 16y ago

zeedotme 16y ago
Love the idea. Similar to http://readness.com http://readness.com except not automated. Our coverage: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/17/readness-a-last-fm-for-news-now-why-hasnt-this-been-done-before/ http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/17/readness-a-last-fm-for...
- kovyrin 16y ago
  I'd personally hate all my reading (including shit I open but do not like/read) to be shared on my account. Having control over what is shared is good IMHO.
  - tikhon 16y ago
    yeah this is opt-in, as opposed to opt-out. you only click the bookmarklet for links that you think are interesting and worth sharing
  - deleted 16y ago
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  - zeedotme 16y ago
    yeah, with Readness though you do have 15 minutes to remove something you've read from your "reading list". Also i believe they're making it so that it only counts as read after a certain time on the article. Heck, I don't work for the guys. Just like the idead and prefer the lazier Last.fm like scrobbling in the background.
  - amirmc 16y ago
    I'm pretty sure readness waits for several minutes before scrobbling what you're reading. I'd find it more interesting to see what general reading habits it uncovers rather than a simple 'share' button.
jayp 16y ago
What does "our hackday" mean?
- tikhon 16y ago
  Scribd periodically has "hackdays" where we all work on whatever interests us (think of it like google's 20% time). James Yu and I built this during one of those hackdays.
  - bitemyapp 16y ago
    A lot of startups, especially in Mountain View/SF do this, I work at one of them.
gsokolova 16y ago
truly innovative! reduces time and effort in sharing documents!
al_james 16y ago
Hmmmmmm.... Any chance of a google chrome extension button? I dont have a bookmarks bar!
- jamesjyu 16y ago
  We're definitely thinking about this. Stay tuned.
- RossM 16y ago
  I was about to suggest Ctrl+B then did a double-take. Have they removed the bookmark bar from the dev build? Edit: Ah, they've changed it to Shift+Ctrl+B.
  - al_james 16y ago
    Arh, good tip thanks! But still a bit of a pain. A tiny icon next to the URL bar would be much better!
jayliew 16y ago
This seems to be exactly what I use FriendFeed for (I pretty much only use FF's bookmarklet). So this is like FriendFeed, but stripped down?
dotcoma 16y ago
isn't this what twitter is (or at least should be) about?
- jamesjyu 16y ago
  Twitter is about any kind of status update. Readshout is focused only on the links that you're reading. I know it might sound like a small difference, but user behaviors can change dramatically based on how people are primed. I also don't like sharing every single interesting link I find on Twitter, but I wouldn't mind doing this on Readshout.
Vindexus 16y ago
Request: include a title attribute on links that has the full article title. That way when something gets shortened and has the ellipsis at the end I can just hover over the link to read the whole thing.
jshotwell 16y ago
1.) I'd love to use this. 2.) I cannot use because this because it requires a Facebook login.
al_james 16y ago
Humph.... Signed up and lots of random people started following me. Thats what I hate about twitter. I am not here to make friends, I am here to share with my contacts. Request: Private profiles and only share with my followers.

87 points by tikhon 16y ago

Love the idea. Similar to http://readness.com http://readness.com except not automated. Our coverage: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/17/readness-a-last-fm-for-news-now-why-hasnt-this-been-done-before/ http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/17/readness-a-last-fm-for...

kovyrin 16y ago
I'd personally hate all my reading (including shit I open but do not like/read) to be shared on my account. Having control over what is shared is good IMHO.
- tikhon 16y ago
  yeah this is opt-in, as opposed to opt-out. you only click the bookmarklet for links that you think are interesting and worth sharing
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
- zeedotme 16y ago
  yeah, with Readness though you do have 15 minutes to remove something you've read from your "reading list". Also i believe they're making it so that it only counts as read after a certain time on the article. Heck, I don't work for the guys. Just like the idead and prefer the lazier Last.fm like scrobbling in the background.
- amirmc 16y ago
  I'm pretty sure readness waits for several minutes before scrobbling what you're reading. I'd find it more interesting to see what general reading habits it uncovers rather than a simple 'share' button.

jayp 16y ago

What does "our hackday" mean?

tikhon 16y ago
Scribd periodically has "hackdays" where we all work on whatever interests us (think of it like google's 20% time). James Yu and I built this during one of those hackdays.
- bitemyapp 16y ago
  A lot of startups, especially in Mountain View/SF do this, I work at one of them.

gsokolova 16y ago

truly innovative! reduces time and effort in sharing documents!

al_james 16y ago

Hmmmmmm.... Any chance of a google chrome extension button? I dont have a bookmarks bar!

jamesjyu 16y ago
We're definitely thinking about this. Stay tuned.
RossM 16y ago
I was about to suggest Ctrl+B then did a double-take. Have they removed the bookmark bar from the dev build? Edit: Ah, they've changed it to Shift+Ctrl+B.
- al_james 16y ago
  Arh, good tip thanks! But still a bit of a pain. A tiny icon next to the URL bar would be much better!

jayliew 16y ago

This seems to be exactly what I use FriendFeed for (I pretty much only use FF's bookmarklet). So this is like FriendFeed, but stripped down?

dotcoma 16y ago

isn't this what twitter is (or at least should be) about?

jamesjyu 16y ago
Twitter is about any kind of status update. Readshout is focused only on the links that you're reading. I know it might sound like a small difference, but user behaviors can change dramatically based on how people are primed. I also don't like sharing every single interesting link I find on Twitter, but I wouldn't mind doing this on Readshout.

Vindexus 16y ago

Request: include a title attribute on links that has the full article title. That way when something gets shortened and has the ellipsis at the end I can just hover over the link to read the whole thing.

jshotwell 16y ago

1.) I'd love to use this. 2.) I cannot use because this because it requires a Facebook login.

al_james 16y ago

Humph.... Signed up and lots of random people started following me. Thats what I hate about twitter. I am not here to make friends, I am here to share with my contacts. Request: Private profiles and only share with my followers.