#visual bookmarking

[lightbring3r]

after months of struggling we are very sorry to tell you that Zootool is shutting down on March, 15th 2014.

Schade, auch wenn sich diese Nachricht schon vor Wochen abgezeichnet hat. Alles Gute Jungens...

[teamclipix-blog]

Introducing Price Drop Alerts, Bigger Images and Easy Reading

July 12, 2012

We’re constantly thinking about how we can improve Clipix and make it the absolute best it can be. Who better to learn from than our users?! We’ve taken a deep dive and analyzed some of the most common ways in which people are using Clipix and optimized for those uses. One of our most exciting discoveries was just how many users are clipping products from e-Commerce sites. Among all the clipped apartment listings and clipboards full of shoes, we knew there was something everyone would agree on; saving money rules.

So that got us thinking about how we could tailor the e-Commerce clipping experience to make it as phenomenal as possible. Then we had a crazy idea. One crazy enough it just might work. What if we could automatically let our users know when the price of the products they’ve clipped drops?! We got right to brainstorming and working through the technical feasibility and figured out that we could make it happen. It wasn’t long before we were supporting our patent pending “Price Drop Alerts” from hundreds and then thousands of e-Commerce sites, with the list of sites growing every day. Clipix now automatically recognizes when you’re clipping a product and lets you set up an alert that’ll send you an email when the product hits your target price. When we first started getting Price Drop Alert emails we almost couldn’t believe it; it’s pretty much the best feeling ever. Now, whether you develop a shopping addiction is up to you, but we’re here to organize your life and help save you some time and money too. If you come across a store where you’d like to see Price Drop Alert, just let us know right here. After Price Drop Alert we got to thinking about how we might improve Clipix to make people’s lives easier. Yes, it’s true; we rarely sleep! Some of the other most commonly clipped items are articles and blogs. We thought it would be pretty awesome if you could read an article without ever leaving Clipix. Now when you open a clip of an article, you’ll see the whole article right there. We’ve been getting some great feedback from voracious readers and students who do research. We’re in the midst of rolling this out and you’ll start seeing it on clips from all kinds of popular blogs and news outlets. Right up there with products and articles are photos and gorgeous images. We wanted to let our users experience the full beauty of their clips and so we’ve started displaying much larger images on Clipix. They really are spectacular and we think it makes Clipix just that much better. We’re always thinking about what we can do next to take Clipix to the next level. Have an idea? Let us know! 

[mradachi-blog]

A good read by David Galbraith co-creator of RSS and co-founder of Moreover, Yelp, Mocoms and Curations.

[splatforms-blog]

Pinterest may be the hot new social network on the web, but the idea behind the site isn't exactly new — in fact, it dates back to at least 2006. Writing for GigaOM, Yelp co-founder David Galbraith has briefly detailed the history of Wists, a site he launched six years ago that is functionally quite similar to Pinterest. "I get too much credit for RSS and for Yelp," Galbraith says, "but the one thing that I can unashamedly claim to have invented is visual bookmarking." Wists let users add images to the site using a bookmarklet, and just like with Pinterest, much of the community took to using it as a sort of virtual shopping list — the site even adopted the tagline "social shopping."So where did Wists go wrong? Galbraith provides a few potential reasons. For one, he never acquired the resources necessary to turn the site from a "quick and dirty prototype" to something slick and polished like Pinterest. He also feels that the site launched too early, as networks that could help drive growth like Facebook weren't near as big as they are today. "The lesson to be learned here is that first to market is not as important as sometimes claimed," he explains. "Most successful internet platforms are second or third generation versions of an earlier idea." Wists is actually still live, so you can check it out to see what Pinterest might have looked like had it launched a few years ago.

[splatforms-blog]

As Pinterest continues to grow, they have slowly rolled out features that improve their offering. At the beginning of the year, we made 30 suggestions for Pinterest, one of which was to add better video support for users that want to pin images.Pinterest has supported the pinning of YouTube videos for some time, but today announces support for Vimeo videos, which we supported not only because Vimeo makes up a substantial amount of videos online, but because the video quality is better, thus it is more commonly used for high production videos, which is often what many of our readers are looking to share as small business professionals.Pinning videos works the same way as pinning images on the site, and you can check out videos that have been pinned on YouTube or those just pinned from Vimeo to see how they render. Being able to pin videos is a no-brainer for a visual bookmarking site, and this simple addition will most definitely help users spend more time on the site.

[sprtstco]

Visual bookmarking with Zootool

I can't believe that I've never come across this brilliant visual and social bookmarking tool before!

Zootool is a visual bookmarking app that lets you save pages, images, links, or even videos that you see on the web. 

For anyone who's a disillusioned del.icio.us user like me, Zootool will almost feel like it's god sent. It has a minimalistic UI that's not confusing to use on the get go, importing and organizing bookmarks is hassle-free (I imported roughly 450 bookmarks and it was a breeze!)

It gives you a lot of flexibility on whatever it is that you want to do when you bookmark something (keep it public/private, add it to a bookmark pack, add tags, bookmark the entire page or just specific parts of it, etc).

The social aspect of Zootools is pretty nifty too, plus the public packs are great and can be very helpful for designers (like me) or just about anyone who needs a little bit of inspiration :D

It has an iOS app as well, which I haven't checked out yet but I will soon!

I gotta say I'm pretty hooked...if you're not using Zootool yet, I suggest that you mosey your butt on over there and start bookmarking!