Calling all Readability enthusiasts—we have a special opening here at HQ. Are you fanatical about community, customer service, and Readability? If you’d like to put those powers to use, we are waiting to hear from you. We’re expanding and looking for a talented Customer Support and Community Manager. NYC applicants warmly welcome, but we are [...]
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Jeffrey MacIntyre (@jeffmacintyre) is an Arc90 Lead Strategist and freelance writer. He is an advisory board member of Readability.
Readability in the Wild: Chrome Store, Echofon, and Tweetbot
Fans of comfortable reading are finding news ways to encounter the Readability experience across the web. Here are three you may have spotted recently: Google Chrome Web Store: As we mentioned the other day, the official Readability extension has landed at Google—and to warm reviews already. (“One of the best add-ons I have ever installed!!”) [...]
The Little Things
The team at Readability is bearing down on a major release update. Yet, as a member reminded us just the other day on our community site, Readability Ideas, it’s the little things that count when you care about hand-crafting a better reading experience. Here’s proof. Custom keyboard shortcuts You spoke, we answered. One of our [...]
The Readability API Contest
Developers: May we have your attention, please? We’re very excited to announce the Readability API Contest, where any and all developers may pit their skills against one another to innovate the reading experience online. The grand prize? $5,000. Minutes ago tonight, at the New York Tech Meetup, the Readability team shared this unique opportunity for [...]
The New York Review of Books Turns the Page
Readability was built from the ground up to embrace publishers of every shape, size, and definition. From the humble blog comment to the status update on up, all we produce and consume online is content: by extension (as web professionals know), everyone is a de facto publisher on the web. Allowing readers to reward the [...]
All the hNews Fit to Print
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Readability is, among other things, an advocate of the web standards movement. We made the decision to adopt the hNews standard, a microformat pioneered by the Associated Press, for two reasons. We believe better metadata is a laudable objective for making digital publishers’ content work harder for themselves. But we also maintain that standards like [...]