Meet LaterLoop, a new bookmarking tool that was recently featured at Google’s I/O conference.
LaterLoop’s core functionality is very similar to Instapaper, which we reviewed last January. After adding either a Firefox extension or a Bookmarket to their browser, users can click “Save For Later” whenever they come across an interesting site that they don’t have time to read. These pages are saved in a list of temporary bookmarks on LaterLoop’s site, which can be accessed at a later date from a normal browser or from a mobile device (the site currently supports Blackberries, Nokia smartphones, and iPhones).
The site has also just implemented a download function that allows users to save all of their bookmarked sites into a .zip file. This will be handy for people on the go looking to catch up on their reading during a flight. Unfortunately this doesn’t work on the iPhone yet, though we can probably expect to see something once Apple’s official application store launches.
LaterLoop isn’t exactly a novel application – similar functionality can be found from toread, Firefox’s Read it Later extension, PhoneFavs, and a number of others. But it has very intuitive interface, and Google’s endorsement of the app at their I/O conference speaks volumes.
LaterLoop is the latest offering from developer Gregor Hochmuth, whose other ventures include FlickrStorm and Mento.
Nice. Needed.
Try out pushpopurl.com … sort of like tabs / history in the cloud. Also built on Google App Engine.
Why do we need a new bookmarking tool? Google Web History has all your searches, the websites you visited, what time, how many times. You can even search your searches. The best bookmarking tool is one that bookmarks stuff for you without you having to do anything.
I wrote about it here: The best bookmarking tool, Google Web History
@3 – It’s nice but there’s a difference between user-save and auto-save.. some people have privacy concerns (and some others don’t)…
Agreed. The user-save and auto-save is key.
Ryan
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Google demoed this application because there are not (m)any better applications that are hosted on AppEngine right now, not because they think they are trying to promote this particular app. The feeling I got from talking with the AppEngine developers was that they are disappointed that nobody has come out with anything cool that runs on AppEngine yet.
@6 – agree.. add PHP, and they’ll have world..
that said, whether google is brave enough to add php for gae, is, of cos, another matter..
but nothing prevents them from introducing a gae-version of php
> @6 – agree.. add PHP, and they’ll have world..
@6 – agree.. add PHP, and they’ll have the world..
(and seriously).. how many people know/like python?
Check out Yawas: it also stores your bookmarks on Google machines, but also lets you highlights web pages. And of course, the highlights are re-created when you revisit the page. It’s using Google Bookmarks and stores highlighted pieces inside the “notes” field, between <>
readbag.com launched earlier on the appengine with much more features.
I agree… I only know one person who knows python.
Definitely they should add php asap.
Although I guess it will come with a big overhead over the app.
Actually, our (sincere, but perhaps unqualified) “advice” to them (ie., google gae) is, don’t repeat the previous twitter team arrogance.. meaning, google appengine is certainly good, in fact we look forward to using them, but don’t confine people to stupid caveats (in the case of twitter, downtimes; in the case of gae, python, or “alternatively”, that webapp framework)..
Because, hosting is so cheap these days, and there’re other potentially more appealing/competive choices (ec2/joyent), that people do NOT have to live with python to create their apps, even if the google brand certainly sounds attractive… sure, there will be people who will start learning python, simply for the purpose of google appengine…
So far, it’s pretty confusing.. like the sms account verifications, like, don’t even know what application names are available (very very confusing), and like, those yaml uploads could be further automated but not yet, etc…
>don’t even know what application names are available (very very confusing)
that is, that “Application Identifier” for the .appspot.com thing.
@6 is right on the money. Google DID NOT endorse laterloop. Instead, App Engine, a 6 week old solution for Google was in the Keynote at IO. They had to show customer adoption and traction and since there are no apps of significance, they struggled to find ANY app that looked in ANY WAY legit and interesting. Hardly the “endorsement” that you quote in the article.
Shoot, just search for appspot.com. Ignore the first few results and look only at the results that are appspot.com urls.
Did you think Google would screen shot these in the keynote?
http://reset.appspot.com/
http://to-done.appspot.com/
http://apptunes.appspot.com/
I built a similar app after seeing InstaPaper, but it stores everything in your del.icio.us account.
http://dogmarked.com
I still prefer InstaPaper
PhoneFavs has been working well for me, it requires an extra click or two to save bookmarks, but offers much more mobile friendly functionality.
I love this idea, an easier way for recording my favs on my favorites.
I’m glad they people are working on this problem (the zip file thing sounds nice), but there is still a long way to go. I think there will be some interesting ways to use social networks and bookmarking together that are still unexplored.
Another cool iphone app: http://www.zintin.com
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well it definitely rocks
as ive got quite a lot of ppl hooked on to my limo hire site via this.
Google can be so generous at times juss makes ya wonder.
LaterLoop is a special app for me, but I’m still amazed that Google is allowing it.
Regards,
Jermaine
Love this
this is good
Great info.