Now for a difficult pill to swallow: Overcast doesn’t support streaming. It’s a polished look, but hardly revolutionary. Once you’ve finished subscribing to all of your favorite shows, they’ll populate the home screen in alphabetical order, complete with a small piece of cover art on the left-hand side of the screen. It’s not clear exactly how these are surfaced, but the feature adds a social layer to what is normally a solitary listening experience. Furthermore, there’s a nifty option that lets you connect your Twitter account and see what shows the people you follow are listening to. Thankfully, Overcast gives you the option to search for podcasts manually and also import them with a custom URL. If you’re a diehard politics fan, for instance, I suspect you’ll want more than half a dozen podcasts to choose from. They’re all great choices, but while I was skimming through the sections I was struck by the lack of depth and variety. They’re split into genres such as business, games, health and technology – each contains roughly six to nine shows which feel like they’ve been hand-picked by Arment. Otherwise, you can tap the plus icon in the top right-hand corner to view Overcast’s curated podcast directory. Veteran podcast listeners will appreciate its on-screen instructions for how to import shows from either Pocket Casts or Instacast – it’s a basic guide for importing OPML files, but the process is surprisingly painless. The podcast player sports a clean design that, with a sidelong glance, could be mistaken for Instacast with its orange accents and sparse menus. It’s not perfect though and Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper and co-founder of Tumblr, is the latest to step into the fray with a minimalist iPhone app called Overcast. In 2013, Arment sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks.I’ve tried a number of podcast apps in the past and my favorite, by a small margin, is Pocket Casts. Marco Arment left Tumblr in 2010 to concentrate fully on Instapaper. The service has more than two million users. In 2008, while still working for Tumblr, Marco Arment founded Instapaper, a reading service that saves articles for later reading on web browsers and other devices. In 2013, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Currently, Tumblr hosts over 108 million blogs. Karp had already bought the domain – – because it was an easy platform for publishing tumble blogs. That same year Karp was eager to design a short-form blog where users can follow other users’ blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Marco had a lot of experience with different programming languages and was hired by Karp to develop websites for various media companies. In 2006 Marco Arment moved to New York when he answered a Craigslist job ad placed by David Karp, founder of Tumblr. Prior to working for Tumblr, he was a software engineer for Vivisimo, Inc. Arment received a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College. As of January 2013, Arment’s blog receives nearly 600,000 page views each month. In May 2013, the subscription-only periodical was sold to Aperiodical LLC, a company owned by Glenn Fleishman, the publication’s current editor. In October 2012, Marco Arment introduced The Magazine, an iOS publication that comes out bi-weekly. However, in 2013, Arment announced that Betaworks bought the controlling interest of Instapaper. He left Tumblr to concentrate fully on Instapaper, a reading and bookmark service that launched in 2008. As the lead developer and first employee of Tumblr, a blogging platform that hosts over 108 million blogs, Marco Arment worked from Tumblr’s inception in 2007 until 2010. He is co-founder of Tumblr and creator and sole developer of Instapaper. June 11, 1982) is a web and iPhone software developer, as well as a magazine editor and technology writer, living in the suburbs of New York City.
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