November 16, 2011

Clipboard Reinvents Copy-and-Paste for the Web

Clip­board wants to help you save and orga­nize what you find on the web, and it's accom­plish­ing this goal by rein­vent­ing what it means to copy and paste.

On the sur­face, Clip­board looks like a lot of other save-and-share apps, such as Ever­note, Clip­marks and Snip.it. How­ev­er, founder Gary Flake says that his start­up's tech­nol­o­gy goes much deep­er than other web sav­ing and shar­ing solu­tions.

"We're the only solu­tion out there that has a real strong claim to being fast, inter­ac­tive and lightweight," Flake says.

Clip­board's rich­ness of clips makes it unique. While most copy-and-paste ser­vices either save only the text or basic struc­ture of a web­site or arti­cle, Clip­board actu­al­ly saves the orig­i­nal func­tion­al­i­ty and for­mat of the items a user shares. If you decide to save a Wol­fram Alpha page or a Face­book Post, Clip­board will retain its con­tent, struc­ture and even some of its func­tion­al­i­ty. You can check out an exam­ple from Wol­fram Alpha and an Amazon.com clip­ping to see the tech­nol­o­gy in action.

Clip­board's unique tech­nol­o­gy stems from the deep research of its founder. After get­ting his PhD., Flake became a research sci­en­tist in machine learn­ing and data min­ing before he found­ed and ran Yahoo's Research Lab. He even­tu­al­ly moved to Microsoft to run its Live Labs group, which pro­duced prod­ucts such as Pho­to­synth and Pivot......

Clipboard Reinvents Copy-and-Paste for the Web
http://mashable.com/2011/11/15/clipboard-com/

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