Pulse, a social news reader for iPad, iPhone and Android, is getting into the save-for-later article bookmarking arena with the release of Pulse.me.
Pulse.me, which goes live Thursday, allows app users to create an account and save stories they discover in any of Pulse's apps. By starring those stories, users save them for consumption later, and the stories can be viewed in any of the Pulse applications or online at Pulse.me, Pulse's first web component.
The Pulse.me product is intended for application users looking to sync their reading experience across web and mobile platforms. Those who star stories in Pulse applications are effectively collecting them in an article repository, denoted by the new ".me" icons in the apps, that they can revisit from their preferred Pulse access point.
The Pulse.me product release also includes Instapaper, Read It Later and Evernote integration. Users who star stories via Pulse can also choose to earmark them to be sent to any of those services.
Pulse's new product isn't a direct attack against Instapaper or Read It Later -- favoring connection over competition for the time being. At launch, Pulse users won't be able to save stories from the web, but we have reason to believe that a way to save web stories to Pulse.me is in the works.