Public Feed, by Pocket (Beta) - Share your favorite items to your public profile

Pocket is testing out a way for you to share your favorite items to a public profile, which others can follow to see your picks in a feed of recommended items. Your saved items are still private by default, but you can now choose to broadcast favorite pieces with your followers. This is really interesting by Pocket, The Verge has a good writeup here. The public beta is now available on iOS and Android.

♬ Public pockeeeets ♬ This is exactly what I use twitter for except without the noise. Looks great, will give it a try!

I use pocket everyday and I'm constantly sharing my reads with people and through Twitter! This is a move!

I believe that the Pocket eco system has the potential to drastically improve signal to noise as a social reader.

Would love to try it but my iPhone says that pocket is not a trusted developer... :(

Potentially this move can change a lot of things in the content curation and distribution space. I like it because people put things on pocket that genuinely interest them instead of profile-building-generic stuff. So excited 😍😍

This is AMAZING! I use @Pocket daily. Adding a social layer can really make it the number one place to find quality content to read.

This is both amazing and annoying...on the one hand, the way Pocket simplifies sharing articles with friends and, now, with anyone via profiles is terrific. But I still feel like Instapaper has the upper hand for actual reading, annotating, and working with content in a non-social context—highlights and notes are indispensable to me. Guess I'm still stuck using both :P

While I have always loved pocket, they continue to push towards discovering more content. Nuzzle already tells what is popular on my feed and my lists. While most folks have the issue of too much content. I hope they focus on clearing up the existing queue of articles. I would pay more to have help me get through what I have already added.

I've been a longtime pocket user ever since it was called Read it Later. I was a big fan of delicious many moons ago and wrote a couple of pieces for Sarah Lacy about the way Yahoo bundled the acquisition of the once former king of social bookmarking. I thought Delicious would return to glory after the founders of Youtube acquired it from Yahoo (more like rescued it)..and it started out so well with a new feature called Stacks (similar to pinterest boards for links) but then it died a slow death as they pursued other interests. I've been using pocket for items I will read later but I still use delicious to save links indefinitely according to tags (old habits die hard!)... but I use Point to share links with friends because it's quicker and easier than Pocket. At least until now... I need to check this out. Point lets you send any link directly to a friend within the browser plugin so my friends and I have dramatically reduced email glut by using point for links. I'd like to stick with just pocket though. Heck, I'd love to get rid of delicious for saving links longterm too. Here are two pieces I wrote about delicious back in the day. http://web.archive.org/web/20080... http://web.archive.org/web/20150...