Why trust Greenbotis on quite the app-building spree. It’s latest is a new service called Spaces, which aims to simplify the way you share images, videos, links, other content gathered from the web.
The new tools, announced in a blog post, will be available on Monday in an app for Android, iOS, the web. The service isn’t live at the time of this writing, though there’s already a Spaces product page.
Official Blog Given that this is a product, search is built in for finding your saved content.
Spaces seems to follow the philosophy of the new iOS-only keyboard called Gboard, which puts a search button right next to the keys. Spaces organizes offers search for -friendly content, which in turns means you’re more likely to use services like YouTube, Chrome, image search.
Official Blog Spaces for iOS supports push notifications enables chat around shared articles.
Group messaging is a major component, as you’re able to hold conversations about everything that you share with others. The initial draw is probably for consumers who want to chat about all the nifty stuff they find online, but there’s also a drop of productivity thrown in considering that you can share talk about articles clipped from the web.
The product feels like it overlaps a little with many other existing services, but that’s how the company tends to roll. It throws out a bunch of new products then iterates them over time to more align with how the user base actually responds.
The story behind the story: has done a lot of work with new apps updates recently to more tightly integrate its services on the web as well as Android iOS. The company recently added new extensions for Inbox Keep that make it easier to save share links. Given that the company’s revenue is still tied deeply to search services, expect more tools improvements to existing ones to keep coming to both mobile platforms.
