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SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

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Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#11

damn! now what I'm I supposed to do now with all of my cooking recipes? Seriously, I think I will go back to the old school word document for storing stuff, you can't trust services like this to last. Does anyone have a recommendation of a paid alternative that won't close?

Evernote?

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#13
I consulted for Clipboard very early on. Gary Flake is a really smart, talented and drive engineer. I'm glad he got a chance to see this through. Sorry it didn't gain the kind of traction I'm sure the team was looking for. I hope some of their tech can be worked into the salesforce stack and will continue to live.

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#14
post #12
post #8

The point is the domain name, gals and guys.

can you elaborate? what is in there with this domain name for salesforce?

Not sure what there is to elaborate on. It's a 9 character, properly spelled dictionary word, one that resonates highly with anyone who has ever cut-and-pasted something on a computer.

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#15
Great service, worked well, looked good, team of developers, everything free.

It seemed this thing was headed for acquisition from the start.

I'm done using these sorts of services. If it doesn't run within my Emacs / Vim / Unix workflow then I won't bother, or I will build it myself.

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#17
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about that it's already built?

They're shutting it down, and AFAIK storage of information parsed from web pages isn't particularly proprietary.

Going on one limb here - The vision of Clipboard per Gary William Flake (who is an awesome guy, btw) was laid out while he was working on similar ideas at Microsoft. There were already a few prototypes which I am sure, Microsoft (patent generating machine) would have patented. So, either Clipboard folks have filed a ton of patents as Gary continued to pursue relevant ideas at Clipboard, and are sitting on valuable IP, and SalesForce is buying IP + Gary + Team or just Gary + Team. Acquisition price would be higher in the former scenario (not sure by how much % though)

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#18
post #16

I really love using clipboard. If SalesForce has some "forces" in it, they shall simply let a small team of 1 or 2 people to just maintain it. Or at least, opensource it.

Unlikely. SFDC acquired Seattle-based Thinkfuse last year, who had a great product that people LOVED, and shut it down:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/25/salesforce-acquires-techsta...

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#19

damn! now what I'm I supposed to do now with all of my cooking recipes? Seriously, I think I will go back to the old school word document for storing stuff, you can't trust services like this to last. Does anyone have a recommendation of a paid alternative that won't close?

You can pay for Google Apps, which has Drive, which has Keep.

https://drive.google.com/keep/

Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.

#20

I consulted for Clipboard very early on. Gary Flake is a really smart, talented and drive engineer. I'm glad he got a chance to see this through. Sorry it didn't gain the kind of traction I'm sure the team was looking for. I hope some of their tech can be worked into the salesforce stack and will continue to live.

Bro/Sis, your http://siculars.posterous.com link is out-of-date. What is your new home on web?
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