as you might know, readbag was one of the first services to run on google’s app engine cloud infrastructure. starting march, google will charge for highly-trafficed and high-available applications such as readbag.
in order to compensate for those costs and keep the application 100% ad-free, readbag will now be priced at $10 per year & user, charged securely via paypal.
apart from operational costs, readbag as simple as it is enhances your reading productivity and keeps your regular bookmark collection clean which, i believe, is worth a small fee.
thanks
— thomas
here are a couple of new features:
- the title of an entry can now be renamed after adding it via the bookmarklet
- new setting: disable confirmation for deleting links
- new setting: disable sharing to increase loading speed
- target url of an entry is now visible on hover
- increased loading speed for rss feeds
- dramatically improved reliability for offline & mobile viewing
you can now star each link which allows you to share them with the world via an own feed (like in google reader) or use this feature to mark a story as important.
starred links will have an asterisk in the title on all mobile versions, feeds and email digests.
you can now import links from other services like del.ico.us (typically stories you tagged with “toread” etc.) or any other site that offers an rss/atom feed. just click “import”, enter the feed url, hit import and the happy readbag robot will transmit your links.
the readbag bookmarklet now fully supports opera; please update it if you’re using it.
you’ll find a new greasemonkey script on the goodies page that allows direct integration in google reader.
if you have google gears installed, you can now go offline and take all your unread links with you to read them on the road.
