LinkLocker

It's quite entertaining to watch Venmo try to explain away the default behavior of their app, which broadcasts users' transaction info publicly. The unnamed PayPal spokesbot cited in that story claims the service was "designed for sharing experiences," which is a delightful wad of claptrap devised in order to spin the fact that they must want to publish this data about your finances in an attempt to attract new users.

Everything in Silicon Valley may "need" to be a disgusting "growth hack" in order ...

Instapaper has announced that it's going independent (again!):

We want to emphasize that not much is changing for the Instapaper product outside the new ownership. The product will continue to be built and maintained by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper for the past five years. We plan to continue offering a robust service that focuses on readers and the reading experience for the foreseeable future.

It's great that they're going indie again, and it's especially good to ...

One of the questions we are most frequently asked is why payment information is required in order to begin our free three-day trial. It's a great question, and I thought a brief explanation of our thinking might be helpful.

It took a bit longer than I'd hoped, but today I'm happy to announce that LinkLocker 2.0 is live! This release brings the following features and improvements...

I am making the final preparations to launch LinkLocker 2.0 this Sunday afternoon. The site and service will see a (hopefully) brief period of scheduled downtime beginning at around 20:30 UTC (that's 1:30 PM here in the Pacific time zone) on Sunday, June 17. This downtime is by nature a planned event, and services will be restored as quickly as possible.

LinkLocker 2.0 is the biggest update the service has yet seen. It brings hierarchical categorization of links, Firefox and ...