Hi. I'm Joe. I like law, tech, and stuff for geeks. I'm an Associate Editor at Phillyist and a contributor to Geekadelphia. I judge people loudly in public but other than that I'm a nice guy.
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Longform.org feeds your @Instapaper account with longer, high-quality articles -- via @newyorkobserver [Reading]
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I came upon an article in the Observer this morning about a couple of guys in their late twenties who love Instapaper, a free web service and iOS app that let's you save articles on the web for reading later, and formats them perfectly for easy-on-the-eyes reading, whether you're on an iPad or a non-Apple mobile handset.
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These two guys love to use Instapaper to queue up longer articles that they can read to kill time productively on train rides, in lines, and anywhere else where they find themselves between appointments, meetings, or places with some free time. But it's harder and harder to find quality longform articles in a sea of RSS feeds -- I should know, I have over 270 feeds in my RSS reader and wake up to well over 1,000 unread updates every morning. Curating those and deciding what to read about, and write about, can be fun. But sometimes you want the curation done for you.
Feedly is a wonderful way to organize your Google Reader account and works even better as you accumulate more feeds. It essentially crowdsources the curation of your feeds list, showing you what's popular and offering suggestions based on your reading, liking, and sharing histories.
But Instapaper isn't about curation. It aims to help us avoid forgetting about an intriguing headline by combining a lightning-fast bookmarking feature with a quality reading experience.
It's simple: co-founders and editors Aaron Lammer and Max Linsky find great articles they think are "too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser." They link to them on their website and embed a "Read Later" link to add each story to your Instapaper account. Longform.org comes complete with sub-categories and even accepts user submissions. So try it out.
Source: New York Observer
Unlike the competition, @Lastfm has no plans for an official webOS app [webOS]
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Image via last.fm
I recently commented on Last.fm's Get Satisfaction page about the potential for an official webOS app from the company. These days, I'm an avid use of lostfm for webOS, which is a third-party application developed by Precentral.net forum user xschemer. It's a wonderful implementation of Last.fm's API and really gets the job done.
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My question about whether or not the company plans an official webOS app wasn't born out of a lack of Last.fm functionality -- xschemer's app is awesome -- but instead was more of a way to test the waters when it comes to opinion on webOS. The truth is, Last.fm's answer only left me with more questions.
Engadget advised by lawyers against buying iPhone 4 scoop -- Via WSJ.com [Quote]
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Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of Engadget, which is owned by AOL Inc., said that the site was contacted April 17 by people who claimed to have found the device in a bar. These people asked Engadget to pay for access to the device, but it declined to do so after consulting with its attorneys. "We believe it's the same device," said Mr. Topolsky
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Good call, JoTo. Suit would be silly here, but you never know with Apple. You just never know.
"This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4" -- Via @Gizmodo
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Yes, this video blows. They want you to visit their post, and they're right, you should:
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Pixelpipe For webOS Helps Compare Video Sites [Apps]
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So I finally got around to playing with Pixelpipe - http://pixelpipe.com - and it's not bad. It alows you to upload all sorts of files to all sorts of websites. Notably, I used it to post the stock introduction video that is shown the first time you turn on a Palm Pre. I sent the video to Blip.tv, Viddler, Vimeo, and YouTube simultaneously. Vimeo forces a thirty minute wait for all basic (free) accounts. It still has fifteen minutes left to post the video. YouTube came in second, posting the video in a couple of minutes, with the caveat message that processing was still going on and that video quality may improve when the processing had completed. Blip.tv came in third, posting the video after about five minutes. The winer by a million miles was Viddler, which posted the video faster than I could check on it. It was effectivley instant. I still want to test Pixelpipe's handling of photo disemination, but I'm fairly impressed with the video upload. Only request is support for tagging. Speaking of which, I'm sending this post from Pixelpipe to Posterous to see how that works out. Hopefully there are no tags in the post title. If there are, Pixelpipe doesn't understand Posterous' native subject line tag support. That wouldn't surprise me, since Posterous built tyhat feature specificaly for emailing posts. If you use Pixelpipe on your Pre, iPhone, desktop, or other device, let me know about your experiences with it in the comments!
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You: What's that? Them: An iPhone. You: A what? Them: Have you been living under a rock? You: No, but my iPhone has! -- Via @Gizmodo [Image]
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via gizmodo.com through HighSnobiety
I just really wanted to do that thing I did in the title. If we're friends, and you have an iPhone, and you buy and use this, we won't be friends anymore. Just sayin'.
UPDATE 2: joebeta.com Gets A Mobile Flavor [Image]
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UPDATE 2: Still working on m.joebeta.com. Stick to joebeta.mofuse.mobi for now.
UPDATE: I managed to make m.joebeta.com work instead of the standard MoFuse URL. Many thanks to MoFuse founder David Berube. Follow him on Twitter. This is what I love about the modern web: real help from the developers themselves.
Yes, I know the image is an iPhone and I love my Palm Pre, but http://www.mofuse.com/a/ doesn't have a Pre demo.
Now http://joebeta.mofuse.mobi will point to a more mobile-friendly version of this site.
Tweet"Captain Picard Laments Twitter, Lauds the iPhone" -- Via Gizmodo [Video]
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The man who was Captain Jean-Luc Picard makes me feel dirty for being a Twitter user, and makes me wish I had an iPhone.
