"Snipitron, a new social bookmarking site for academics, professionals and students, launched in pre-beta mode on Friday. On many levels, it's your conventional bookmarking site: you add URLs via the web interface, a bookmarklet or the browser plugin (IE and FF), add tags, add friends and explore websites bookmarked by others.
Slightly different is the idea of collections: all your bookmarks are part of ongoing projects, usually concerned with researching an assignment or a purchase."
I'm surprised there have not been more 'vertical' del.icio.us variants. Looks useful to a subset. For a business I wonder how much the 'niche' audience will restrict the sites ability to make money?
PRO:
simple
export data via RSS
pre-built input tools via browser
CON:
does not copy delicious conventions enough
free & long term viable? ('We're still working through the whole "money thing.")
Another site that completely fails to make it clear what they do on the front page. "The best way to capture and share your research." What the heck does that mean?
The FAQ is four paragraphs long, of which only two sentences are at all meaningful.
How about just having the front page say: "SNiPiTRON is a way to build research projects based on the web pages you capture. Then you can share and discuss your research with friends, colleagues, co-workers, etc." Even this is too wordy and could be cut down.
Why even bother building it if 90% of the people who get to the site are going to hit the back button within the first ten seconds? heh.
Great response. We are in Beta and trying to get everything looking good for our public launch. We hope to have the FAQ's updated soon and be more descriptive on our front page. Thanks for the feed-back.
Slightly different is the idea of collections: all your bookmarks are part of ongoing projects, usually concerned with researching an assignment or a purchase."
http://mashable.com/2007/03/17/snipitron/