Emad Fanous

I’ve heard a lot of blonde jokes in my lifetime, but this one is definitely the best.

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So I’ve been using Clipmarks for a little while.

It installs a toolbar into Firefox (also available for IE) that allows you to either highlight what you want as you would with your mouse or mouseover boxes (usually defined by tables) to select areas to save.

Once you highlight what you want, you save it into your account, give it a title, add some tags, organize it into folders, and choose to keep it private or public.

It is different from the social bookmarking tools out there in that you are clipping/tagging/organizing section of a page rather than entire pages. That means, you can select an item from sale on a store’s search page without worrying the contents will change (it actually copies the contents, HTML and all…but without the styles). I’ve found the concept/tool interesting but I wonder if anyone will care about copyright issues should they be the one being added into clipmarks.

You can also search through the clipmark tags (either the public ones or your own). You can choose to follow a user if you see that they are consistently providing you with good content. Additionally, you can comment on the stories.

This is a nice tool that adds structure to the unstructured web by allowing you to tag, title, & organize page subcontents including paragraphs/sentences, pictures, and most anything else that appears on a page. It also could serve (once it gains enough users) as a Digg crossed with a Technorati: you can track/trend tags and each clip for a story can act as a “digg” or vote for popularity.

The cost of utilizing a toolbar for your product: potentially fewer downloads and, therefore, fewer adopters. The benefit of it: once installed, most people leave it there so using it and coming back is inevitable. Of course if you build a great product, you can counteract the cost of using the toolbar.

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