Today we’re incredibly proud to be launching the next generation of our content normalization engine, codenamed Iris. It’s live right now and you’ll start to see improved results as you use Readability over the next few weeks. For the past year, while Readability’s adoption and growth accelerated, we began thinking about how we wanted the [...]
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Chris Dary is the CTO of Readability. You can reach Chris at chris@readability.com.
Readability needs help with Community Support. Interested?
Readability is looking for a talented community support person to help us manage our passionate, growing userbase of readers, publishers, and developers. And where better to look than to our userbase itself? As part of Arc90—a small, Manhattan firm of passionate, design–driven technologists—we each wear many hats. Designers who code, engineers who invent, managers who [...]
Tap Into The Readability API—Instantly
It’s easy to casually throw around the word “platform” when you’re building a technology, but for us the term carries special meaning. Since day one, we’ve aspired to make Readability a foundational service that others can build upon, not just a singular reading app. I’m proud to say that we’ve made our platform goal a [...]
Readability for Everyone
We have some great news to share: we’ve removed the limits on free Readability accounts. All users—free and paying—now get unlimited access to their Reading List, Favorites, Archives, and all our other features. I wanted to take a quick minute to run through our motivations for the changes. This tweak helps us accomplish our goals [...]
Introducing the rdd.me API
One of the more useful tools in the Readability toolbox has been our link shortener, rdd.me. The interesting bit about rdd.me is simple: When an article is linked to through rdd.me, it offers up the availability to view the content in a clean, readable view. To date, it’s been useful for a number of diligent sharers [...]
Readability API Contest—The Winners!
Today we at Readability and our three judges—Sarah Chubb, Anil Dash, and Jeffrey Zeldman—are proud to announce the winners of our API Contest, where all comers put their skills on the line to vie for our $5,000 dollar grand prize. We couldn’t be happier with the quality of the submissions we received – thank you [...]
Growing Roots: Integration & Performance Updates to Readability
Every once in a while we like to step back and make some improvements that might not be the prettiest, but are nonetheless necessary for a stable and healthy application. We like to call them growing roots releases – things that will help us to branch out further in the future. Today, we released a [...]
Meet the New Readability Mobile
With the re-launch of Readability as a full-fledged reading platform, we made a commitment to deliver the best possible reading experience not only in your web browser but on mobile and tablet devices as well. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of the new, enhanced version of Readability for mobile and tablet devices. With [...]