Sunday, April 12, 2009

New Microsoft Labs "Thumbtack" service

Thumbtack is a new service from Microsoft Labs. It allows you to keep all the information you find on the web in a central place. It's kind of like your favorites, but this allows you to keep just the actual information from the site that you need.

I for example am always looking at technical information and other blog entries, documentation about a specific topic, say SQL or Exchange. I constantly keep bookmarks of the pages that I need to go back to and look at the info, but with thumbtack I can keep just the actual snippet of information from that page. So instead of filling my favorites with a ton of links that I need to go back and hunt down the exact piece of information that I need, I can now just keep it in my thumbtack collection. You can also share that collection with your friends or coworkers, it is a really neat service that I hope Microsoft Labs keeps around. A true hidden gem.

http://thumbtack.livelabs.com

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