Feed my kindle - with Instapaper.com

I found two services to feed my kindle with stuff that Amazon doesn’t offer:
Instapaper.com and kindlefeeder.com
These services are somewhat different in scope, mostly kindlefeeder being an automated feed pusher to the kindle (at least in the premium version) and Instantpaper being the famous manual multi-platform extended bookmarking and visual-spam reducer it is.

I can wholeheartedly recommend Instapaper, I am not so sure about kindlefeeder.

I tried kindlefeeder for a few days and I must say that it repeatedly broke my kindle update/push mechanism. This problem occurred first after I sent the first feed manually and disappeard after I stopped sending feeds. I had to reset the kindle twice to get it working again.

Instapaper goes a long way to really grok the Kindle platform, basically all important navigation features are supported on the device - which is a necessity if you want to ingest a lot of information quickly. It is so good I subscribed to Instapaper for a mere buck per month to support the service - give it a try yourself!

Tablets - a Paul Graham Essay →

The advantages of doing things in software on a single device are so great that everything that can get turned into software will. So for the next couple years, a good recipe for startups will be to look around you for things that people haven’t realized yet can be made unnecessary by a tablet app.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace →

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

Pure genius - coming-soon intro →

Great re-framing! →

All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I pay nothing for. Storage is free.

African landscape, en route to Namibia

It’s not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

— Thought Fuse - by Sheraan - A blog on entrepreneurship, life hacks and big ideas.

What I’ve Learned, By Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom →

That’s a good one!

Dear Mr Schlenkhoff,
Thank you for your email.
We regret to inform you that Kindle subscriptions do not include access to The Economist in Audio, archive and full Economist Premium Content.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused in this matter.
Kind regards

— Email exchange with the Economist customer support. What a crap, I am paying a premium over the standard subscription and the other online benefits are not included??

Great new kindle features coming…

First, we are making Kindle newspapers and magazines readable on our free Kindle apps, so you can always read Kindle periodicals even if you don’t have your Kindle with you or don’t yet own a Kindle. In the coming weeks, many newspapers and magazines will be available on our Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and then we’ll be adding this functionality to Kindle for Android and our other apps down the road. Our vision is Buy Once, Read Everywhere, and we’re excited to make this possible for Kindle periodicals in the same way that it works now for Kindle books. More details when we launch this in the coming weeks. Second, later this year, we will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable - this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending. We will post to the forum later this year when these features are available

(Source: amazon.com)

Spomenik

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic →

HasWifi - The Inflight Wifi Resource →

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Pusher - Realtime client push powered by HTML5 websockets, beyond AJAX →