One of the many responsibilities of working in the rapidly evolving software industry is the need to rapidly respond to new trends and developments. One such development that really caught our eye was the recent acquisition of $2.5M in funding by Readitlater, a company with a product that many have pointed out to us very much resembles Zukmo. Given the a obvious similarities, we decided that we’d take the opportunity to outline what actually make Zukmo and Readitlater very unique products.
Though we could write paragraph after paragraph about why Zukmo and Readitlater aren’t exactly in the same market space (Readitlater focuses on one-time reads, Zukmo focuses on longer-term information management solutions, Readitlater stores content offline while Zukmo indexes it in the cloud for easy management, etc.), a chart always seems to do the trick a little bit better:
| ZUKMO | READITLATER | |
| Functions | ||
| Desktop document support | Yes | No |
| Notetaking | Coming Soon! | No |
| Web clipping | Coming Soon! | No |
| Web bookmarking | Yes | Yes |
| Direct RSS feed handling | Coming Soon! | No |
| Sharing and collaboration | Yes (Soon Improving!) | Yes |
| Content available offline | No | Yes |
| Content stored in cloud | Yes | No |
| Indexed searching | Yes | No |
| Simplified viewing | Yes | Yes |
| Integrated Services | ||
| Delicious | Yes | Yes |
| Yes | No | |
| Google Reader | No | Yes |
| Google Docs | Yes | No |
| Google Apps | Yes | No |
| Instapaper | No | Yes |
| Yes | No | |
| Login Integration | ||
| Yahoo! | Yes | No |
| Yes | No | |
| Yes | No | |
| Yes | No | |
| Mobile Platforms | ||
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone | No | Yes |
| iPad | No | Yes |
| BlackBerry | No | Yes |
| Browsers | ||
| Firefox | Yes | Yes |
| Chrome | Yes | Yes |
| Safari | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Explorer | Yes | Yes |
| Opera | Yes | Yes |
| Flock | Yes | No |
*Information obtained through staff research and is not independently verified
As it’s easy to see, Zukmo and Readitlater actually differ quite significantly, and Zukmo continues to grow in terms of integration and functionality, weekly. We aren’t aiming for anything less than the best information management tool around. In order to actually shape Zukmo into the best, though, we need your help! Please send us any feedback or suggestions you might to feedback@zukmo.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
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