Web Clipping Service Clipboard Targets Evernote: Adds Note Creation, File Uploads. Web-clipping service Clipboard, which recently underwent a major redesign, is tweaking things yet again.
While previously, the company focused only on serving as an outlet where users could clip web content, organize it, and share it with others, today’s update now allows users to import local content, specifically images and text files, and create rich text notes online. Seemingly minor additions, these changes see Clipboard attempting to move even closer to becoming an Evernote competitor, a similar service which also allows both web clipping and content creation.
Historically, Clipboard has been something of an iterative update on what Evernote (or OneNote, SpringPad, etc.) offer today. That is, it’s been trying to find a sweet spot somewhere in between being a public image-sharing platform like Pinterest (by also adopting a image-heavy layout), and offering more utilitarian capabilities like those provided by other online bookmarking/note-taking tools. As Social Bookmarking Reignites, Venture-Backed Clipboard Acquires Clipmarks & Amplify. Clipboard, the web clipping service founded by former Overture vet Gary Flake, has just completed the acquisitions of two competitors, Amplify and Clipmarks.
The startup, which is taking on the challenge of reviving social bookmarking, is backed by many top notch investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, SV Angel, Betaworks, DFJ, First Round, CrunchFund (note: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is a founding partner in CrunchFund) and others. Current Amplify and Clipmarks users will be invited to join Clipboard via email, but anyone else can request an invitation to the Clipboard private beta directly from the the service’s homepage.
As per usual, terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed, but users are in the process of being notified now. An official blog post will also go up later today, serving as “official notification.” For those unfamiliar, both Amplify and Clipmarks served similar interests: social bookmarking. ‘Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, CrunchFund, Others (Invites) Today we take some time to dive into Clipboard, an intriguing new Web clipping and social bookmarking service started recently by Gary Flake, a former Overture executive who went on to found both Yahoo’s Research Labs and Microsoft’s Live Labs.
We’ve also learned the names of the fledgling company’s many, top notch investors. Clipboard aims to become the go-to service for saving and sharing the relevant parts of any page or service available on the Web, including much of its core functionality, or put differently taking care of everything in between simply bookmarking a URL and having to save an entire Web page. Using a bookmarklet, Clipboard users can ‘clip’ things like search query results, stock quotes, tweets or Facebook status updates, video clips, images with captions, a Google Maps map, a forum answer, an Amazon book review, an eBay product summary, a digital coupon, and the likes. Check out Flake’s public clips to get a better idea of what Clipboard can do. A screenshot of mine: