Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook 107
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Live Labs have introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others. It's similar in concept to Mozilla's Joey, a defunct project that let people copy and paste portions of Web pages onto a single page that they could access from their mobile phones or another computer. Thumbtack is also like other available services, including Google Notebook. But Thumbtack developers think their service has a difference. 'Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning,' according to the FAQ about the service."
Fire up the copiers Redmond! (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously. Whats next? Windows 7 will feature a task bar at the top of the screen with a magnifying shortcut bar at the bottom of the screen?
IE Addon vs. Firefox Extension (Score:3, Funny)
From TFA:
Thumbtack works in Internet Explorer and Firefox, but it lacks some features when used in Firefox, Microsoft said.
So the Firefox extension lacks the "Share" or "Publish" ability, right?
Awww (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, how cute! Clippy's got a cousin.
I bet Thumby's classification of information works just as well as Clippy's classification of my current action.
Thumbtack? (Score:4, Funny)
Clippy? (Score:3, Funny)
Even the thought of office stationery in relation to Microsoft brings back those horrible nightmares...
Coming soon... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Thumbscrew! The product guaranteed to make you scream in agony! Now with even more boneheaded user interface design decisions! Order now, and we'll somehow work in DRM and the Internet Explorer rendering engine, too!
Re:Fire up the copiers Redmond! (Score:5, Funny)
And someone in Redmond reads this post and thinks: "Hmmm....!"
Re:All those long words (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Saline Scrotum Swelling, a Slashdot Solution (Score:3, Funny)
This is how Al-Qaeda communicates. There, I typed Al-Qaeda so this will be thoroughly analyzed by some sort of government agency.
Re:I think an important question here is... (Score:1, Funny)