Readab.ly is now live, with a preview on a readable, streamlined and beautiful news reader. As seen on the screenshot above, it will pull the links from your twitter stream and show them on an interface reminiscent from google reader. The promise is to turn then your twitter experience into a news and information discovery tool, with a more streamlined interface than option-click on links and having a series of tabs (or windows) on interesting links from tweeter.
The idea is not new, but it’s the delivery that makes it stand out, perhaps like the beautiful/integrated experience on a iPod vs a standard mp3 player, with the right buttons at the right place, and an intuitive layout instead of just a functional interface.
Readably is by Chicago-based design Josh Puckett, and Montreal-based Jérôme Gravel Niquet. Jérôme is known recently for launching ostrich, one of the most viral apps in Montreal to date. The Ostrich app gave him the experience on delivering a popular application, phenomenal growth, intense product development, all built ontop of a brand new technology. This time, he’s joining forces with Josh Puckett, known from his design work at Less Everything, and let’s hope, with a more solid infrastructure to back users growth.
