Science Technology: Microsoft Launches Thumbtack; Its a Google Notebook Competitor

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Microsoft Live Labs has just released Thumbtack, a new online notebook service of sorts, allowing you to create different collections where you can store links and content and share it with friends. Microsoft offers a few examples of how you might want to use this: finding a new apartment with your roommate, creating a list of your favorite restaurants, or storing data on different cars if youre in the market for one.

The most comparable competitor is probably Google Notebook, which lets you create an unlimited number of lists that can be shared with your contacts. Just like Notebook, Thumbtack offers a bookmarklet so you can add to your collections as you browse the Web. Heres a demo of Thumbtack from the Live Labs team:

Video: Thumbtack Introduction

I could see this being somewhat useful for very specific tasks, but generally speaking, simple bookmarking and tagging of Web pages works just fine for organizing links Id like to remember. Do you think Thumbtack is something youd use? Or, are you using any online notebook tool for that matter?

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