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zeedotme
Love the idea. Similar to http://readness.com except not automated. Our coverage: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/06/17/readness-a-last-fm-for...
kovyrin
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
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
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[dead] zeedotme
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
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
What does "our hackday" mean?
tikhon
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
A lot of startups, especially in Mountain View/SF do this, I work at one of them.
gsokolova
truly innovative! reduces time and effort in sharing documents!
al_james
Hmmmmmm.... Any chance of a google chrome extension button? I dont have a bookmarks bar!
jamesjyu
We're definitely thinking about this. Stay tuned.
RossM
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
Arh, good tip thanks!

But still a bit of a pain. A tiny icon next to the URL bar would be much better!

jayliew
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
isn't this what twitter is (or at least should be) about?
jamesjyu
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
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
1.) I'd love to use this.

2.) I cannot use because this because it requires a Facebook login.

al_james
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.