DISQUS

RBA · 2 years ago

"Forbes finds the service useful for helping their reporters collect and share information about articles they are reading "

That's a reason to use the service, not quite to acquire it. Unless the offer was undeniably good, I sense Clipmarks could have benefited more from having Forbes as a client rather than selling their entire business to them, but again, we don't know much about the complete story.

I for one favor selling the service over selling the company, especially at such early stage. Am I crazy?

Roger McNamee · 2 years ago

Hi!

I'm a director of Forbes and have been directly involved with the Clipmarks team.

Let me add two things to the thread. First, the story is premature, but only by a little. Second, Forbes is committed to transforming business journalism so that our audience gets more insight about business and investing in a lot less time. We think Clipmarks will play a really key role in this. We are committed to supporting Eric and his team as the continue to develop the Clipmarks site. In addition, they will embed the technology in the Forbes.com site to ensure that this amazing functionality is available to our editors and readers.

To RBA - you are not crazy. We were open to every possible option; this is the one that worked best for Eric and the Clipmarks team.

RBA · 2 years ago

Thanks Roger. BTW we'd love to have Forbes as a client. Let me know! :-)

Fantasy Futures Exchange · 2 years ago

along those lines and sure to be snapped up by someone soon: The Fantasy Futures Exchange, it's wonderful niche financial site created by Karel Baloun-formerly of Facebook. It's the ONLY existing website where people can papertrade futures for free with no time liimits without dealing with a brokerage firm, opening an account or being hounded by a brokers to open accounts. Fun and Educational. Slightly different concept but definitely in the financial realm.

mozzer · 2 years ago

Roger --
Having met Eric and looked under the hood myself, it's an ok tool without a lot of there, there, quite frankly. (Though I understand that the goal of a fund like Elevation is to take those contrarian bets.) Guess his angel well dried up. Really hope you're getting this one for a song...

MB · 2 years ago

I'd have to disagree with you Mozzer. Yes, on a business level there might not be a lot there. However, they do have something very unique in the ways they let you manipulate data sets (this might be boiling it down too much too). Combined with the interfaces that they have for letting you manipulate data, it creates a really powerful tool for doing SO many different activities. I hate to compare things to Google, but all they had back in 1998 was a 200,000 page database, accessible by a rather unique search method. That wasn't much either....but given time and adoption of ideas and shifts in the way we view/use the internet, Google has had its way. I think it ends up being personal preference for what exists that drives opinions, because the various applications of the technology could be invaluable to different folks. This would never be fair if we were trying to compare business models, because this is a complimentary technology, sort of like a prosthetic limb, but like 10 of them.

Peter Siel · 2 years ago

To Roger McNamee from Forbes:
Congratulations on the purchase, but have you considered Simpy? Simpy is another social bookmarking service from NYC, and I find it much more interesting and useful than Clipmarks. It's probably too late for you to change your mind, but have a look anyway.

Adriana Lima · 2 years ago

I couldn't understand some parts of this article Forbes buys social bookmarking site Clipmarks, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

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Social Bookmarking · 1 year ago

I'm probably running behind, but did Forbes ever go through with the purchase of Clipmarks?

Clipmarks is a great service - use it every day - and they continue improving it.

Andrew

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williamgeorge · 1 year ago

ClipMarks, which is based in New York, enables you to clip things from the web — text, photos, videos, etc. — make selections, and save them to your ClipMarks folders. In a similar way to how Del.icio.us works, ClipMarks focuses more intensely on browser integration and solving the problem for online researchers and students rather than focus on getting everybody to replace their browsers’ Bookmarks.
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maximilian · 1 year ago

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

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Current Reports Live · 1 year ago

I really enjoyed this article on Forbes...Very Interesting!
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