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Robert Kevin Rose (born 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.

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[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

I thought digg was killed off by Reddit

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Will there be a $5 fee to access Pocket then?

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 3 hours ago

I... dont want to think about what Digg would do to it, or since no one remembers Digg has everyone forgotten about the 2010 redesign, and why Digg was sold to BuySellAds in 2018?

[-] finsk@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

Pownce was awesome the short time it existed

[-] RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

Looks like they offered to take it not buy it. Hell throw my hat into the "please give it to me" ring

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 22 points 11 hours ago

Has anyone ever used pocket except by accident?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 hours ago

Yes, many times. For a while I tried to use it as a read later for articles. But I never managed to actually remember to go back and read later the things I saved. I honestly think it's a useful tool. You can save articles offline to read later.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

So I had no idea you could use it to read offline. But I remember saving webpages to read later back in the 00s. I remember you could even choose how many links deep you wanted to save. Is this really no longer available?

Actually I like Offpunk for this kind of functionality, but that's not very mainstream.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

Well sure you can save web pages. Pocket was a manager for that.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Is there a better free read later app?

[-] idkicarus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Instapaper has a free plan. Personally, I moved away from Instapaper and use the extension MarkDownload to save pages as Markdown and import that into Obsidian.

[-] stray@pawb.social 15 points 7 hours ago

I'm just not sure what a read later app is even for. Can't you just leave the tab open?

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

The internet is not always available for at least some people.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The main idea is that you can access it regardless of which device you're currently using. Like saving an article you see when you're on your PC for when you're about to leave so you can read it on your phone while on the train

[-] krash@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

Try readdeck or shiori (both self hostable)

[-] giacomo@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago

not even by accident, lol

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I loved pocket when it let me tap to turn but then that got stripped out and I never used it again

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

I miss revision 3.

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