Marcel in The Week In Quotes

The Week In Quotes

Our friends over at Readmill have a nice tradition: They post a digest of highlights every week. It’s a nice way to say goodbye to the week and a great way to find something to read for the weekend. So we’ll adopt this and present you our first weekly digest:

I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly everything.

»I used to believe that time was the most important thing I have, but I’ve come to believe differently. The single most valuable resource I have is uninterrupted thought.«

Jens Nikolaus recommended this article from adambrault.com

Twitter adds filters, but misses the point

»Instagram’s success is about a new way to show what you’re up to. It’s about creating a photographic timeline of your life you can flip through as easily as thumbing through a child’s picture book. The filters are just gravy.«

Timon Wimmer-Cuport recommended this article from theverge.com

Why I'm writing on the iPad | Macworld

»When I first got my iPad, I immediately changed the email signature to read, “Lovingly handcrafted just for you by Jason Snell.” I did it to remove Apple’s baked-in self-promotion from every email I sent, but in hindsight I think there’s something to the idea that words that spring from an iPad are not necessarily the same words that would come from other devices.«

Drake Shipway recommended this article from macworld.com

Behind The App: Twitterrific 5

»The first source code file was created on February 15th, 2012. Since that first check-in, there have been 2032 changes resulting in 824 files. Of those files, 73% are source code, 25% are images, and 2% are other assets such as fonts and sounds.«

fffabs recommended this article from furbo.org

No Sex, Please — We’re Domestic Goddesses

»look at me in my bedroom with my flannel-shirted boyfriend, look at the perfect meal I made for a picnic on our living room floor, look at me admitting to the dry skin I cured with this yummy organic shea butter — suggests a world flung open to you by a friend who wants to share every worthy secret to help you improve every aspect of your lifestyle. Those secrets, though, are products and humblebrags. The advice they offer is merely how to make ourselves, as women, ever more decorative. «

Malte Müller recommended this article from nymag.com

What to do with $175,000 in weed found in your back yard

»It smells strongly of marijuana – despite the fact that someone sealed it tightly into jars, Ziplocs and professionally vacuum-sealed pouches before THEY HID IT IN MY BACK YARD.«

Philipp Waldhauer recommended this article from factoidlabs.tumblr.com

The Web We Lost

»Ten years ago, you could allow people to post links on your site, or to show a list of links which were driving inbound traffic to your site. Because Google hadn't yet broadly introduced AdWords and AdSense, links weren't about generating revenue, they were just a tool for expression or editorializing. The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.«

zeichenriss recommended this article from dashes.com

Why Magazine Apps Suck

»But because the media industry loves nothing more than talking about the media industry, today we have dozens of stories with dozens of reasons for why The Daily failed. Blame News Corp. Blame Rupert Murdoch. Blame Apple. Blame Steve Jobs. Blame Eddy Cue. Blame the iPad. Blame the web. Blame native code. Blame Newsstand. Blame tablets.«

Tim Herbig recommended this article from techcrunch.com

Have a great weekend!

Marcel in Announcements

Out now: QUOTE.fm for iPhone (And it’s free!)

QUOTE.fm for iPhone just hit the AppStore. Now you’re able to read, save and quote articles from your iPhone.

Here’s what it can do:

Your Reading List. See what you’ve saved for later reading and read it when you’ve got the time.
Add new articles to your Reading List.
Social Reading: See who else read and quoted the article you’re reading and comment on their quotes.
Quote the article you’re reading and recommend it to your friends.

Go grab it in the AppStore. It’s free and you won’t find a more social reading experience out there.

You might have noticed that you’re not able to find new articles shared on QUOTE.fm at the moment. We’ll publish another blogpost in the next couple of days that will shed some light on this decision. Let’s just say: Everything you might miss will come in the biggest update QUOTE.fm has seen so far. Soon™.

QUOTE.fm for iPad and iPhone in an AppStore near you.

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Import your saved articles from Instapaper, Pocket and Readability to QUOTE.fm

This is amazing. Nico Knoll invested a bit of his time to build something that QUOTE.fm lacks: A way to import your saved articles from Instapaper, Pocket and Readability. So if you think about switching your reading experience to QUOTE.fm, feel free to use Nico’s solution.

If you have a bit of time to spare and want to build something neat, feel free to take a look at this list of ideas for our API: QUOTE.fm API Ideas Braindump.

Feel free to ping us if you’re building something. We are looking forward to post your creation here in this blog.

Marcel in Features

The first steps to a better QUOTE.fm

Yesterday we launched a new feature we are very excited about: A new layout for individual quotes. The problem with our previous solution was that when you shared quotes to Twitter and Facebook and someone clicked on the link the person would end up on a page only containing a headline and a blue quote without any hint what’s going on.

Those times are over. The new single pages are much more useful and self-explanatory:

Here are some examples:

Pruning: Making room for something new
The Best
Innovation is a fight
What’s inside the Skinner Box?

Basically there are no pages for individual quotes on QUOTE.fm anymore, we just put the quote and all comments where they belong: Directly to the article they originate from. You see someone sharing an article via QUOTE.fm on Twitter or Facebook? Click or tap the link and you’ll be directed to the site of the article. You’re able to toggle the quote, or disable the QUOTE.fm options altogether. If you click somewhere in the darkened space around the quote, or on the “Quote” button in the bar at the top, you hide the quote so you can read the whole article. If you’re done reading, just click the button again to view the quote, write a comment or recite it.

This is a huge deal for QUOTE.fm and we’re going to change a lot of things like this to make more sense in the near future. We’ll change some things to bring discussions to where they belong and to ensure a better experience of finding new stories worth your time. Some of the very first steps are the new single quote pages and a small redesign we gave Discover and Following and there is many more to come.

Happy quoting!

Marcel in Features

We’re on your site

Great news, everybody! Introducing: The Send to QUOTE.fm button.

Here is what it is able to do:

Save to QUOTE.fm Read – Let your readers easily save your articles for later reading to QUOTE.fm Read
Read now – Let your readers read the article in a reading environment they can customize themselves
Send to Kindle – Let your readers send the article to their favorite e-ink reading device. (Soon available for everybody, at the moment still in beta.)
Recommend on QUOTE.fm – This may be the best thing. Your readers can select a part they liked of the article and click the QUOTE.fm button to recommend the article on QUOTE.fm

The number to the right of the button shows how often the article has been recommended on QUOTE.fm. Click the number to go directly to the source page on QUOTE.fm.

Nice, isn’t it? And there is more.

The Industry

We’re happy to announce that The Industry (Source page of The Industry) already makes use of the new QUOTE.fm button. The Industry is a publication dedicated to highlighting design focused startups and people. If that doesn’t sound like a perfect fit, we don’t know what else would.

Make sure to head over there to read and recommend their articles. It’s great content and we promise that you’ll learn something new.

We’re on your site.

Go grab the embed code in the QUOTE.fm Labs, add it to your page and see what your readers find worth recommending.

Happy writing!

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