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So this is like a public-facing Evernote? Crossed with Pinterest?

a) Needn't be public facing. b) You have much more flexibility to select the specific bit of HTML you want. c) Does a way better job of capturing the "live" DOM context. You aren't grabbing an image, you are grabbing text/structure/etc. d) Resembles Pinterest only in that you can make collections of things and share them with people. Unlike Pinterest, the point isn't just to show people stuff, but rather to harness something useful (you are grabbing bits of structured data).

Can you elaborate on the "structured data" and how it's gonna be useful? To the average user, it seems like the biggest value proposition here is the ability to keep your posts private. For those who don't need to keep things private, how is it better than using Pinterest?

You can clip almost arbitrary parts of web pages. See http://clipboard.com/gary/boards/examples for a whole bunch. This makes a big difference because instead of simply having pretty pictures of food, you can save actual recipes and search over ingredients. You'll probably find http://clipboard.com/category/Programming interesting as well.

I poked around and wasn't able to find a way to export my structured data (RSS, API, something). This is admittedly something that would initially only appeal to a very select few users, but would enable both much richer users of the data and at least the beginnings of an ecosystem around your product.

Also, and this is not to be negative, but I have been burnt repeatedly by bookmarking/clip services going out of business and while I wish you the best of luck a _key_ aspect of trying a new one is that they do not act as a roach motel for my data.

I'm just happy not having clips made of PNG's with painful fonts/colours/sizes that don't work on my phone/console/monitor/whatever.

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