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Speaking of monetization...they acquired Clipmarks.com which predates even the defunct Google Notebook (and possibly Digg). Clipmarks.com - although popular amo

Speaking of monetization...they acquired Clipmarks.com which predates even the defunct Google Notebook (and possibly Digg). Clipmarks.com - although popular among certain crowd - never made it big and had to rely on Ads until they gave up. So I don't see why the Clipboard isn't going the same route. As a former Clipmarks.com user, I have no intention to rely on any such clipping services for the daily curation I do (lately only for myself).

webwanderings 14y ago
I told Eric Goldstein (Clipmarks.com) a long time ago that you should run the website like a head editor of a newspaper and not let everyone show whatever they're clipping on the front page of the site. Curation based service sites have a front face which makes or breaks the adoption by those who pass by. If you let your front face show whatever the heck people are clipping (for the sake of democracy and due to popular vote counts, a la Digg), you are letting the perception of your site go to garbage. The perception Pinterest generated proves my point. A visitor should be able to tell what kind of audience hangs out at such curation sites. Pinterest generated a perception of design, aesthetic, shopping etc. Its front page is well curated with a goal. Clipboard doesn't give that impression, and nor does any such clones of Pinterest. I am not defending Pinterest over others (I don't use Pinterest), but people need to realize what they're missing when they run en mass after a successful formula. There are so many such Pinterest-look alike sites showing up lately and besides copying the front page design, none seems to be offering anything of substance, or a reason for anyone to anchor their curations.
- idleloops 14y ago
  I think this is an interesting point. I'm not sure how you censor your front page. I personally don't really care what's there, but you could quite easily offend, and scare people away from the service.
  - webwanderings 14y ago
    Editing is not censoring.

webwanderings 14y ago

I told Eric Goldstein (Clipmarks.com) a long time ago that you should run the website like a head editor of a newspaper and not let everyone show whatever they're clipping on the front page of the site. Curation based service sites have a front face which makes or breaks the adoption by those who pass by. If you let your front face show whatever the heck people are clipping (for the sake of democracy and due to popular vote counts, a la Digg), you are letting the perception of your site go to garbage. The perception Pinterest generated proves my point. A visitor should be able to tell what kind of audience hangs out at such curation sites. Pinterest generated a perception of design, aesthetic, shopping etc. Its front page is well curated with a goal. Clipboard doesn't give that impression, and nor does any such clones of Pinterest. I am not defending Pinterest over others (I don't use Pinterest), but people need to realize what they're missing when they run en mass after a successful formula. There are so many such Pinterest-look alike sites showing up lately and besides copying the front page design, none seems to be offering anything of substance, or a reason for anyone to anchor their curations.

idleloops 14y ago
I think this is an interesting point. I'm not sure how you censor your front page. I personally don't really care what's there, but you could quite easily offend, and scare people away from the service.
- webwanderings 14y ago
  Editing is not censoring.