August 2010
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Public Profiles and Top Links Now Live
One of the main things I wanted to do with laterstars from the very beginning was use it as a way of finding interesting links that I’d never come across on my own. Ever since the site started I’ve gone through and browsed peoples’ profiles from time to time and consistently came across some really cool stuff that people had faved from within their Twitter streams. There’s...
May 2010
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Privacy Settings and Upcoming Public Viewable...
Laterstars is still within an invite-only beta period, and only activated members can view any pages besides the initial signup form. Once you’re in, however, you can view other peoples’ links. This turns out to be pretty awesome because you can go through and copy all the interesting links you find that you would have never seen otherwise to your account. Personally, I’ve...
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April 2010
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New One-Click Bookmarklet - Click It And Forget...
We already have a pretty sweet bookmarklet that searches for all the tweets that link to whatever page you’re on and lets you choose one to fave so it gets imported into your laterstars. I’m still surprised by how many pages I want to save that have already been tweeted at some point, letting me save it with minimal effort. However, the way the existing version works, it still requires...
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Article Previews
This was actually added a few weeks ago, albeit a bit under the radar… but, you can now preview any link within laterstars. As you’ve probably noticed, if a link is to something we detected as being media, like images and videos, there is an icon on the right side that is either a small preview (images) or a video service icon. If you click on that icon or tap ‘p’ on the...
March 2010
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why laterstars is what it is - the laterstars...
This is the last entry in a series about why laterstars came into being. Part 1 sets the stage, going over all the problems I ran into while trying manage tons of information from hundreds of RSS feeds, and Part 2 talks about why I think there needs to be a shift away from RSS altogether. In this final post, I’ll explain how laterstars came to be, what I’m trying to accomplish with it,...
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“Have ditched my RSS Reader in favour of @laterstars. Now I only have to manage 1...”
– @dantarrant
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rss, you're dead to me - the laterstars manifesto,...
In part 1, I went over all the ways I’ve tried to stay on top of the glut of information available to us all by RSS, and how nothing has ever really worked for me. If you haven’t read it, the basic gist is that while there are plenty of tools available to try to rein it all in, from GReader and NetNewsWire for initial collection and reading of all the feeds, to delicious, Pinboard and...
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rss, you're dead to me - the laterstars manifesto,...
my story of being a failed digital packrat
So why was laterstars even started, what’s the point? There are already plenty of ways to collect and consume links whenever you want. Sites like Reddit, Digg, Hacker News and the like are all abundant sources of good stuff on tons of different topics. And, of course, people are constantly spreading links around to each other via things like...
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account tab comes alive
Up until now, the only thing the account tab has been good for is logging in and out. There were some coming soon items in there for a while that didn’t do anything when you clicked as well, just holding a place for the real deal. Well no more. Let’ start from the top.
Invite Friends
We’ve given all users an invitation to send to a friend. Yeah, just one for now. Some of...
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bookmarklet!
Since we started the site I’ve been thinking of ways to get stuff that I don’t find on Twitter into laterstars. I basically want laterstars to be my One True Place for everything I want to save and read later, and I’ve got to admit that I don’t come across everything I’m interested in from my Twitter stream. So, what are the options?
My first idea was to tap into...