Forbes buys social bookmarking site Clipmarks
Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us.
The New York-based startup lets you select text, photos or videos on web pages, then use Clipmark’s bookmarking feature to save the URL and your selected information to your Clipmarks folder. From there, you can share your “clips” with friends and colleagues and even search to find the… Continue Reading
Yoono takes aim at Clipmarks
(updated version)
Yoono is the latest start-up to offer a “web clipping” feature to let you manage your reading and collaborate with others.
For those who’ve never heard of Yoono, it is a French company that offers a social search engine. It gives you downloadable toolbar that, with varying degrees of accuracy, displays websites, blogs, and news articles related to the Web site you’re visiting at the time. When we last wrote about them, in early December,… Continue Reading
Grouptivity, stripping and sharing Web content
updated
Grouptivity is the latest start-up that wants to let you share your views on Web content with friends or work colleagues.
Specifically, Grouptivity gives you a toolbar that lets you easily strip all of the content from any Web page, including text, images and video. It puts that content onto a clipboard, which you can then send to your friends with notations (see partial screenshot below).
The messages are called GroupMail because they can go to multiple… Continue Reading