A Personally Curated, Mobile Newspaper
A couple weeks ago, I happily joined the iPhone bandwagon (finally!).
One of my favorite apps so far is Instapaper, which allows me to save articles to my iPhone. Any time I come across an interesting article or blog post I don’t have time to read, I simply click on a “Read Later” bookmarklet. Viola! The article is saved to my iPhone, in readable format for convenient mobile reading.
My new morning routine is to visit SF Gate, New York Times, TechMeme, and Hacker News. Open every interesting article in a new tab, and click “Read Later.” Within minutes, I have an extremely personalized newspaper which I read on my commute, while I wait in line for lunch, or any other period of downtime.
Smart phones may not be ubiquitous yet, but they will be – and this is how many of us will consume our daily news in the future. Mobile news reading offers convenient, extremely targeted, personally curated content. And for now, without the ads and all the extra noise.
I hope Instapaper adds Twitter and Facebook integration, tagging, and the ability to share a feed of curated content with others.
By the way, this recent Wired article names Instapaper as iPhone’s killer app. The first Wired article I read about Instapaper, before I got my iPhone, is here.
