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Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook

Posted by timothy on from the portal-of-calls dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Live Labs have introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others. It's similar in concept to Mozilla's Joey, a defunct project that let people copy and paste portions of Web pages onto a single page that they could access from their mobile phones or another computer. Thumbtack is also like other available services, including Google Notebook. But Thumbtack developers think their service has a difference. 'Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning,' according to the FAQ about the service."

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  1. Fire up the copiers Redmond! by Aranykai · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously. Whats next? Windows 7 will feature a task bar at the top of the screen with a magnifying shortcut bar at the bottom of the screen?

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    1. Re:Fire up the copiers Redmond! by fluch · · Score: 5, Funny

      And someone in Redmond reads this post and thinks: "Hmmm....!"

  2. IE Addon vs. Firefox Extension by skaet · · Score: 3, Funny

    From TFA:

    Thumbtack works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it lacks some features when used in Firefox, Microsoft said.

    So the Firefox extension lacks the "Share" or "Publish" ability, right?

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  3. Awww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, how cute! Clippy's got a cousin.

    Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning.

    I bet Thumby's classification of information works just as well as Clippy's classification of my current action.

  4. Thumbtack? by unkaggregate · · Score: 4, Funny

    So does that mean their product is a pain in the ass?

  5. Clippy? by squidinkcalligraphy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even the thought of office stationery in relation to Microsoft brings back those horrible nightmares...

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  6. Coming soon... by arotenbe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft Thumbscrew! The product guaranteed to make you scream in agony! Now with even more boneheaded user interface design decisions! Order now, and we'll somehow work in DRM and the Internet Explorer rendering engine, too!

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  7. Re:All those long words by WTF+Chuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny, I thought all those long words meant, "We are searching your notes so that we know what advertisements to cram down your throat."

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  8. Re:Saline Scrotum Swelling, a Slashdot Solution by nog_lorp · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is how Al-Qaeda communicates. There, I typed Al-Qaeda so this will be thoroughly analyzed by some sort of government agency.

  9. Re:I think an important question here is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    C-t note [ooh, auto-complete!]