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Something Good — A realtime reading list powered by your Twitter stream
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This is great. I love the offline nature of it. I started using an app that's in beta called Preload that does something similar with videos, but those videos are curated. I wish they were pulled from what friends are sharing like Something Good.
This will be great for my long bus commute with spotty 3G.
nicely done. One immediate suggestion is a way to save the url for use in other sharing platforms. While I may want to retweet an article, I also may want to post it to facebook. (or if that's in there, it isn't intuitive).
But very nicely done.
@sacbookreviewer The "Share this" option at the bottom of each article should give you all this (or double-tapping on the article body to pull up the share sheet earlier). You'll need to be logged into Facebook in your iPhone's settings to see Facebook; Instapaper, Pocket, etc should also show here if you want to save something to read later
@edlea Doh! I didn't read down enough of the article to see that before I was trying to figure out how to send it to another platform. Thanks
What a great app! Saves me time collecting links and saving to Instapaper and has been a boredom lifesaver on the Tube more than once.
I built this with @kidcapricious because we found we were spending more time adding articles to apps like Instapaper and Pocket than actually reading them! "Something" pulls in and stores the best articles people you follow on Twitter are sharing and lets you quickly read something good, or skim through until you find something interesting. During our beta, feedback was consistently that users were reading (and enjoying) articles they wouldn't normally have read.
@edlea And, living with the app for some time, we've come to really enjoy the ephemeral nature of it. You're conscious that once you swipe away an article - it's gone; if you want to do read it, you'll need to do it now!
You can still favourite the tweets/articles on twitter in-app.
Shake to undo a swipe.
Just a question, your app only takes articles from news sources right?
It seems it doesn't download news articles that are shared by the people I'm following ?
I may be wrong.
@pierre_vannier There are a couple of things happening - first it grabs the links people you follow are sharing. Then it ranks them based on various factors, such as age, number of favourites, etc. Finally, it downloads article content for each link, when it can find some. We're improving our article extraction - at the moment we're getting a few more false-negatives than we'd like so you won't see *every* link
@edlea thanks! Are there any intelligence with languages? I mean I follow 1/3 french tweeple and 2/3 american/english.
So far I haven't seen any news articles shared by my french tweeple...whereas they definitely shared news articles today. Any clue?
@pierre_vannier No intelligence around language - probably an unintentional bias towards English as we've tested more in English. However, I've seen a couple of French articles correctly parsed in the past hour
Humm.. Strange. I have 't seen any article in french in like a 100 swiped... Nothing at all since I first open the app. This smells like a bug imho.
@kevinace Most reading apps (Nuzzle included) give you a list of articles that you scroll down to find something to read. We've taken a more ephemeral approach - you're presented with an article, you can read it or not, then on to the next article. We find that users read much more varied content this way and discover things they might not normally read. It's a very different experience.
Also, we format articles for an optimal reading experience and save them to the device so they load much quicker.
This will save me at the end of the month when waiting for that unthrottled data to kick in.
Living from data-allowance to data-allowance is just no way to live…
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@sonubabeats It uses the native iOS background fetch mechanism. The OS decides when to make the request to optimise battery life.
You can disable it in "Settings" -> "General" -> "Background App Refresh" if you want to and the app will only refresh when you open it
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