I read a lot of information throughout a day. Probably too much for my own good. There is no way I can remember everything I read, and often overlook a potential story because 25 others have come up on my radar since then.

That’s one reason why I absolutely adore these new ultra-quick cloud bookmarking services that have been coming out recently. I gushed on one a few months back, Instapaper, but there are others now including ReadBag and the arguably most impressive, LaterLoop.

Steve Rubel wrote a great piece yesterday about using these to quickly capturing information for later use.

These new ultra-quick cloud bookmarking services absolutely smoke something like Delicious. Sometimes you don’t need all that tagging and such, you just want a quick way to save something.

Of everything I’ve found on the Internet in the past 6 months, these tools are probably the most useful to me. They also all work perfectly on the iPhone, so I can easily bookmark something to read on the go – and LaterLoop even allows you to export items in a .zip format if you need to go offline.

Though I like all three, I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to using LaterLoop or Instapaper. LaterLoop probably gets the edge because it archives past saves for you, just in case you ever need to go back. You can’t yet search these archives, which is lame, but it does allow to you ’star’ items just as you would in Gmail and the like.

Instapaper has a newer feature that can’t be missed as well. It’s a new seperate site called Give Me Somthing To Read, which looks at the service’s user data and picks out some of the most popular items that were bookmarked. There are only a few every day, so it’s great if you really just want to find something interesting to read when you have some time to kill.

But the best part of Rubel’s article has to be his discovery of yet another new way to use FriendFeed rooms. After we just proved with VentureBeat at the WWDC how FriendFeed rooms can be an excellent tool for live-blogging, Rubel has stumbled upon a new brilliant feature for them: data collection.

Using a room set to private and armed with the FriendFeed bookmarklet, it’s so easy to tag any item on the Internet with notes for later. I’ve been using it the past two days and it’s simply brilliant.

Rooms can be set so as not to create more noise in your main stream. And most importantly, they are searchable. I doubt FriendFeed intended for such usage but it’s amazing.