Google Notebook (which we’ll be launching next week) is a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you’re searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.
(via. Official Google Blog)
This sounds almost identical to a service I have reviewed before, Clipmarks (see review).
Clipmarks is a website which enables you to clip images and text onto a website to store and, optionally, share. Just like how you can take magazine and newspaper clippings, Clipmarks allows you to do this on websites.
Sound similar? Google are such original thinkers (cough). I just hope Clipmarks doesn’t get brushed aside.
Tags: clipmarks, google, web 2.0, web2.0, google notebook
If Google does release a product like this, I hope it looks better and more useful to users. That clipmarks interface is very busy and not very helpful to first time users, but the idea is good. Personally I see it as more of an online whiteboard where people can see what others are jotting down and such.
Whatever it is hope it’s compatible with Opera for once.
My guess is that Google Notebook is actually Writely, which Google acquired earlier this year, if you say Google is a copy cat, then what about Writely?
This is only my opinion, no offense.
-Haochi from Googlified
Google notebook screenshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericajoy/tags/notebook/
I’ll certainly never turn down a compliment like that (google copying…or should i say clipping…our idea)
I think it’s probably too early to tell exactly what they’re offering and how specifically it compares to clipmarks, but my initial take is that google is offering a tool whereas clipmarks about a different way to experience the web.
One of our users (Arifsali) said it like this earlier… “Google or Yahoo or Microsoft Live, when it comes to bookmarks and managing personal data (add networking as well) none of them have lived up to the “expereince” one could get out of Clipmarks or Digg. The tools are not critical, the soul is. ”
I agree with that.
Looks a little similar
Not like Clipmarks.
Google Notebook does not allow to email or make public individual notes, only a whole notebook. Besides, there’s no social discussion, community or comments. On the other hand, Clipmarks does not have a notepad function. These are two different animals.
I tried both Google Notebook and Clipmarks, and those two things are quite different, interface-wise. I am staying with Notebook for now, let’s see if it will prove valuable for me.
[...] I’m a fan of Clipmarks, which is a site which basically allows you to take clippings of text and pictures of websites through browser extensions. The service is somewhat similar to Google Notebook and Diigo, both of which were released [well] after Clipmarks. Clipmarks has various social functions, such as the ability to share, describe, tag, comment and POP clippings. [...]
I appreciate the concept of Google Notebook. My 2 cents:
http://anupamj.blogspot.com/2006/09/notepad-for-web.html
- Anupam