Grouptivity bloggers capture users, and turn them into community members

Grouptivity bloggers capture users, and turn them into community members

Grouptivity is one of several Web tools that lets you easily strip information from a Web site and share it with others. Now it’s stepping up its intimacy with you. It wants to help bloggers capture you when you grab information from the blogger’s site, by prompting you to become a “member” of the site.

All bloggers have to do is insert a line of code in their blog. For bloggers, it’s convenient, because it lets… Continue Reading

Yoono takes aim at Clipmarks

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

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