I was on Refind (until they went paid) and now I'm on OneNote. I take notes in OneNote as well so I think this works out well. I wish their Chrome Extension works a bit better though (some sites are difficult to capture as an Article).
yeah, I think the competition is looking for tech like the one opengarden had, something of a mesh network where people are connected thru bluetooth and wifi (direct), etc.
I think it would've been more convincing, if the study was able to show the splits down non-/geekie parents (or by parent's occupation). My dad's an engineer and he's very geekie for his generation, growing up I always wanted to be like my dad. When I was 12, I'm sure I would've scored high on the geekiness index.
I'm sure they will do promoted jobs. But I wonder if this is more of a defensive move against job related ads that are stagnant - they're trying to do something similar to what they did with the hotel booking: to encourage higher all around bidding from the ecosystem on ads (or find new revenue stream) by putting competition on the intermediaries (ota) that were outbidding the orignators (hotels) for keywords about the originators.
I agree. Plus, I don't think this is differentiated from other flagships. Some people will like it others won't and I'm not sure if there is a moonshot in there to justify $300m.
I think your right on about google tracking. you visit a website and they're probably using google analytics or google ads somewhere, or it's a 3rd party feeding data to some form of google ad network.
At Wire, we've actually been working on the "autotagging" (& some more) for the past 2 years. We're focused on mobile and don't have a desktop version, yet.
Our current version tags a page based on the keywords in metadata, title; we're still fine tuning it and will include the content in the future.
The way Wire works is: instead of the conventional bookmarks, users just saves what they find and use the same search engine they use everyday to find it again.
What the user saves is stored for offline viewing. In addition, we've also included an offline p2p feature that allows the user and an nearby offline friend to share what they've saved.