{"id":657175,"date":"2013-05-09T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=643957"},"modified":"2013-05-09T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:52:15","slug":"salesforce-acquires-visual-web-clipping-service-clipboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657175","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce acquires visual web clipping service Clipboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visual organizer and web content clipper service Clipboard announced Thursday<\/a> that it’s been acquired by Salesforce and will be shutting down the current operation. <\/del>AllThingsD is reporting<\/a> that the company was acquired for somewhere between $10 and $20 million.<\/p>\n

The company explained its decision in a blog post on the site:<\/p>\n

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“We have some bittersweet news. We are extremely happy to announce that salesforce.com has signed an agreement to acquire Clipboard, allowing us to pursue our mission of saving and sharing the Web on a much larger scale. But at the same time we\u2019re also sad to see this stage of our adventure come to an end, especially since it means that our relationship with you, our users, will irreversibly change. As a result of this news, the Clipboard service at clipboard.com will be discontinued on June 30, 2013.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I wrote about Clipboard back in September 2012 when it launched its iPhone app<\/a> and new desktop design. At the time, I noted the similarities between the service and Pinterest, in that they both allow you to save items from across the web and organize that content into “boards.” The Clipboard service allowed you to save links in a way that made them private and fairly useful because of the amount of content that came embedded in clipped material.<\/p>\n

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“Anyone who\u2019s used Pinterest before will feel immediately familiar with Clipboard \u2014 the design is almost\u00a0identical\u00a0to the Pinterest layout, with the option of grabbing material from across the web, saving that material to \u201cboards,\u201d and liking other people\u2019s posts.<\/p>\n

But Clipboard doesn\u2019t seem like a site for wedding daydreams or fashion photos in the way Pinterest does. Clipboard posts, or \u201cclips,\u201d default to private, and unlike Pinterest\u2019s static photos, Clipboard clips retain almost all of their original web functionality, making them seem more like helpful notes-to-self in the vein of Instapaper or Evernote.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the company’s closing post, it reported that the service only gathered 140,000 users who created about 3 million clips. By comparison, last August Evernote had 40 million users, up from 25 milion in May 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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