Did they really just sign their shut-down notice with the words 'peace out'? I don't know why im surprised. Those two words sum up quite compactly the i-tell-myself-and-my-customers-i-give-a-shit-about-them-and-my-product-but-when-it-comes-down-to-it-i-honestly-could-care-less-ness that seems so prevalent in startup culture right now. What happened to genuinely giving a shit? I could actually summon a degree of respect for their decision if they had at least been real enough about it and added 'suckers' to the very end.
SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.
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Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.
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Well, it makes sense: no one has come up with the magic formula to deal with the over abundance of information available today. (Disclaimer: see my submissions for my own ongoing attempt).
LinkThing: http://linkthing.com is pretty awesome. People should check it out, seriously.
Hey - thanks for posting the link thoughtcriminal! One quick correction - its .co -- http://linkthing.co
Its an ongoing project - feedback is super welcome!
Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.
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LinkThing: http://linkthing.com is pretty awesome. People should check it out, seriously.
Hey - thanks for posting the link thoughtcriminal! One quick correction - its .co -- http://linkthing.co Its an ongoing project - feedback is super welcome!
Do you have any thoughts about open sourcing it at some point, or charging money? Either way, I'd feel more confident putting my data in there. Otherwise, it looks awesome.
Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.
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LinkThing: http://linkthing.com is pretty awesome. People should check it out, seriously.
Hey - thanks for posting the link thoughtcriminal! One quick correction - its .co -- http://linkthing.co Its an ongoing project - feedback is super welcome!
The service looks great!
One question: do you intend to make browser extensions? I understand that bookmarklets are simple and fairly universal, however the bookmarks bar is inconvenient for me, as opposed to a button to the right of the address bar.
Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.
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Hey - thanks for posting the link thoughtcriminal! One quick correction - its .co -- http://linkthing.co Its an ongoing project - feedback is super welcome!
The service looks great! One question: do you intend to make browser extensions? I understand that bookmarklets are simple and fairly universal, however the bookmarks bar is inconvenient for me, as opposed to a button to the right of the address bar.
Hey Zikes - I've fooled around with extensions a bit, but I didn't want to get deep into the "supported browsers" game at this point. There's enough under the hood work left to be done in the core application to keep me busy for a bit.
Extensions are definitely in scope for the future though - not just to bookmark things, but sync your browser bookmarks/folders with your LinkThing content etc. Any thoughts or suggestions you have would be appreciated!
Re: SalesForce.com acquires Clipboard, plans to shut it down.
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Hey - thanks for posting the link thoughtcriminal! One quick correction - its .co -- http://linkthing.co Its an ongoing project - feedback is super welcome!
Do you have any thoughts about open sourcing it at some point, or charging money? Either way, I'd feel more confident putting my data in there. Otherwise, it looks awesome.
I haven't thought of charging for it, because honestly if you want to spend money on it, I think there's better solutions out there (at this point!) - like Pinboard. The other side of the coin is that it costs me very little to run, so there isn't really a fire lit under monetization.
My roadmap, if you will, is to keep building out core functionality, particularly around unique ways to create value in the bookmarking space - like the embryonic "Subscriptions" feature you'll notice in the black menu bar. I'd also like to build out "table-stake" options like full-content archiving. Once I've got some unique value to market, and a baseline level of functionality to match the competition, I would consider charging for it.
Open sourcing it: honestly, I don't think I know enough about the process to do so successfully - i.e.: I don't want to just create another dead github project, but I don't know enough about the community side of it to create something "living," so to speak. Would welcome your thoughts on it though.
In regards to getting your data out- you can dump it at any time to a CSV file under your username menu in the upper right-hand corner. Its not a rich export, but its simple and parseable, so your data is never trapped, per se.