Findings Blog

Starting today, you will no longer need an invite code to sign up for Findings!  We’ve launched a new version, which enables this as well as a number of performance improvements and bugfixes.

We are incredibly excited about this milestone, and can’t wait to see your highlights.  Tell your colleagues, friends, and family to sign up for a Findings account today!

Alicia Eler at ReadWriteWeb posted a nice piece about Findings.

As many Neal Stephenson fans know, his newest book, “Reamde”, was released last month to much acclaim.  However, there was a slight hiccup with the release of Amazon Kindle version.  Due to numerous typos and “missing content”, Amazon automatically updated the book on early purchasers’ Kindles and Kindle apps.  They accompanied this update with an email stating that the readers’ bookmarks and highlights would unfortunately be lost.  It was not the first time something like this happened, but it raised an alarm with many serious readers who depend on the Kindle’s annotation features.  They were reminded that they are not in control of this content, and can lose this information at any time at the whim of Amazon and publishers.

Fortunately, users of Findings do not have to worry about losing their highlights and notes in this fashion.  If their Kindle ebook annotations are imported through our bookmarklet, they are effectively “backed up” from the service.  Additionally, we provide XML and JSON feeds of every user’s highlights and notes, so they can even be exported from our service as well.

We just deployed a new version of Findings that gives the clip pages a huge performance boost.  Page loads should be much faster now, as well as scrolling through your highlights.

This update was possible thanks to our newest face at Findings.  Our warmest welcome goes to Jeffrey Weston, formerly of The Onion, as our new lead backend engineer.  Expect to see more great things from us as he continues to work his magic on our codebase…