Comments on: Clipmarks re-designed (again)

By: azharc

azharc — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:49:12 +0000

Looks better, but not as good as I would expect from modern Web 2.0 : now 9rules redesign : that was a redesign, this is just some messing around.

I hate Myspace to the bone. Evil….

I might actually use this, useful when doing school research and Google Notebook is slow.

By: Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:46:50 +0000

Nope, I haven’t used Vox. Frankly, I try to stay away from social networks (I don’t even have a MySpace account )

By: DD

DD — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:23:18 +0000

I haven’t used it too much lately, as much as I used to, but I do like it. Although yes its not exactly like Google Notebook, there are similarities but I like Clipmarks a lot better of the two. I haven’t used Diigo.

ps (and totally unrelated) Have you tried vox yet? I’d love to hear your comments on it.

By: eric goldstein

eric goldstein — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:19:59 +0000

Thanks for the review Joe. I’m surprised to hear that the site was slow for you. A great deal of our development efforts were devoted to enhancing its speed.

Your point about diigo is a very interesting one. Quite honestly i have never used diigo, though i think i’m familiar enough with what they do to say that we’re really not trying to compete with them.

Our focus at clipmarks is to create a destination for people get unique, compelling bits of information that others have found on the web. It seems that diigo is more of a personal research tool (but quite honestly, i may be wrong about that). I would say that we see clipmarks being more akin to sites such as digg and reddit, with the distinction that the content contributed to our site is in very small portions.

There are two main reasons thatwe’re focused on small portions. The first is it makes it easier and more enjoyable for people to consume information about many topics in less time. Since we’re info-junkies ourselves, that matters a lot. The second is that it allows interesting content found within web pages to receive a spotlight that isn’t possible when it’s contained within an entire page.

For along time, many people have grouped clipmarks as being similar to diigo and google notebook. I’m hoping that we can change that perception.