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I think this a great idea, and I've recently noticed a number of people doing things in more or less the same direction. I've been collecting them:

* Deja http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deja/id417625158?mt=8&uo=...

* Squrl http://www.squrl.com/

* Plizy http://plizy.com/

* Showyou http://showyou.com/

* Roadshow http://fetchsoftworks.com/roadshow/

I even wrote a really simple way to actually use a folder called "Watch Later" in Instapaper as a video queue (only works for paying Instapaper subscribers): http://watchlater.radbox.org/ Mine focuses on trying to automatically discover HTML5-capable viewers for use on iOS.

Every one is slightly different, and this one looks particularly nice. Thanks for making it -- I look forward to trying it.

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I used to use boxqueue with Boxee before I got an Apple TV 2 (which I don't use that much, as it turns out). http://boxqueue.appspot.com/

It's a bookmarklet that lets you save videos to watch later on Boxee. Which I liked because I could save videos to watch later on the tv from the couch.

It'd be nice if there were some way to get similar functionality on the ATV.

Does this service, or any of the competitors, actually scrape the video (like pinboard.in does with bookmarks) so you can watch it later, even if the site is taken down?

That's something I would pay money for.

I' m curious about that too.

Roadshow (http://fetchsoftworks.com/roadshow/) lets you download videos to your device. I'm not sure if it's suitable for long-term storage like Pinboard is for web pages, but it might do what you want.

None of them support youtube.

http://watchlaterapp.com can do it. You buy credits ($0.01/min) to download a cached copy (to an ipad, I think you can do web too), but as others have mentioned, not for YouTube.

Hey yes we do (including the Big You! ;)

We think we have an interesting twist on the way you can get videos on to your iOS devices.

We're working really hard polishing up the experience for the user right now, so we'll be sending out invite codes really soon. Thanks everyone for signing up.

The nature of the youtube problem isn't technical. Any hacker can figure out how to download a youtube video. The problem is policy. You will get thwarted, shutdown or sued.

You can't build a business on top of subverting youtubes TOS. It won't work.

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