Mozilla is shutting down Pocket (theverge.com)
Mozilla says it’s shuttering Pocket because “the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved.” Pocket’s email newsletter, called Pocket Hits, will continue under a new name, “Ten Tabs,” but it will no longer have a weekend edition.
This is true. I remember—and still miss—the original del.icio.us site and service. That was the way I saved web content back in the day. Then Yahoo! (I think) bought it, and the decline began. The “read later” era came after, with Pocket and Instapaper emerging as the standouts. I’ve used both, but I always leaned toward Instapaper. Now I’m wondering if it’s the last living leaf on a dying tree. The Instapaper Blog hasn’t mentioned the Pocket news yet, but this Twitter post shows they’re working to handle a surge of Pocket imports. Maybe the tree’s not dead after all.
Links on Daystream (like this one) are an outgrowth of my old del.icio.us habits. I use them to save and reflect on articles that catch my attention. Just my way of creating a personal, annotated archive of web content I want to remember.
Also—del.icio.us is probably where I first encountered domain hacks, which now feel like a nostalgic relic of the early web. Matt Mullenweg’s site is still my favorite example. Wish I’d thought of something like that.
Speaking of nostalgia, I’m hoping Marco Arment has thoughts on all this in the next—i.e., first post-Pocket-announcement—episode of ATP.