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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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    If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
    1. Re:Fire up the copiers Redmond! by fluch · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:I think an important question here is... by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I have something interesting to paste or write down, and am too lazy to start up my text editor, I use Google Notebook.

    The disadvantage of the text editor is that I can only rarely remember what I named a file if I was in a hurry. The notebook lets me search and even preserve markup and images. Basically, Google Notebook is the text editor for the Lazy.