Recorded yesterday evening just after picking up some new iPads, Ben and I talk about standing in line outside our respective Apple Stores, our first impressions of the iPad 2, and more. Episode 3 is proudly sponsored by Due App and Justin Blanton.

The new and improved sharing / social feature in Instapaper is great. Before 3.0 you had to know someone’s exact Instapaper username and then subscribe to their “favorites” folder. And since Instapaper recently began requiring people to have email addresses as their username I’ve been hesitant to share mine publicly.

But now to subscribe to the articles someone likes in Instapaper you can find them much more easily if you also follow them on Twitter, Facebook, etc. (Though you will only be able find them if they have hooked their Instapaper account to their Twitter and/or Facebook accounts, etc.)

You can find my Instapaper likes via my Twitter account. I’m @shawnblanc on Twitter and if you follow me there, when you log into Twitter via Instapaper you’ll find me.

Devastating.

Many thanks to Agendas for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Agendas is an iPad app for meetings, and I have some co-workers that should get this app so the rest of us can benefit from it.

Agendas lets you build meeting agendas and share them with others on their iPads during your meeting. We all know that an agenda can make or break a good meeting. And I can think of two reasons why you should use Agendas for your meeting agendas: (a) it will help save the environment by not making paper copies that will just get tossed anyway; (b) it will help people pay attention instead of goofing around on their iPad while you’re trying to lead a meeting.

Let’s just say it like it is: notifications in iOS suck.

There are five things I routinely am getting notifications from: iCal alarms, reminders I set in Due, text messages, DMs from Twitter, Voicemails.

What irks me most about messages are two things:

• Text messages have to be responded to right away or else marked as read. If I want to ignore the text message so it doesn’t keep buzzing I don’t want it to be marked as read.

• iCal alarms that go off on my iPad, iPhone, and Mac at the same time. I can think of two ways to fix this: (a) the devices know when they are on the same Wi-Fi network and then just one device displays the alarm; or (b) give me the option to set a default device that is the only one that ever displays the alarm.

Readability’s iPhone app for reading articles later was rejected by Apple almost three weeks ago. And so, between now and then, they’ve turned out this top-notch web app as an alternative.

You save it as an app to your iPhone Home screen and it uses HTML5 offline storage support so your articles are available for reading later even when not connected to the Web. Even articles you favorite or archive will sync up next time the app is launched when you’re online.

Also, MG Siegler has written more about it on TechChrunch.

A collection of Mac Apps in the Mac App Store that have iPhone and/or iPad counterparts and that sync their info.

How long until Apple updates Mobile Me (or builds something new) that lets 3rd-party devs sync their apps over the air and that easily lets users keep their apps in sync just using our Apple IDs? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, MobileMe has a lot of potential.