Today, we are happy to report that clips from Clipmarks and Amplify have been migrated to Clipboard. If you had previously requested migration of your clips, they will now appear in your Clipboard account under Home and tagged as #clipmarks or #amplify. All imported clips were assumed private and have, therefore, not been published.

The clip above is one of the very first Amplify clips converted and re-published by its owner, and it seemed nicely suited to commemorate the good news.

Today, we are excited to share with you our new video which emphasizes three core elements of the Clipboard experience: select, collect, and reflect.

We hope that you enjoy it. Let us know what you think!

The primary backend store of Clipboard is built on top of Riak, one of the lesser known NoSQLs solutions. We love Riak and are really happy with our experiences with it -- both in terms of development and operations -- but to get to where we are, we had to use some tricks. In this post I want to share with you why we chose Riak and also arm you with some of the best tricks that we learned along the way. Individually, these tricks gave us better than a 100x performance boost, so they may make a big difference for you too.

If you don't know what Clipboard is, you should try it out. We're in private beta now, but here's a backdoor that will bypass the invitation system: Register at Clipboard.

Today is a bittersweet day for us. On the bitter side of the spectrum is the news that Clipmarks and Amplify are shutting down. For those of you who don't know, Clipmarks was one of the first Web services that gave users the ability to save and share portions of Web pages. Amplify, created by many of the same people, was a similar service that promoted a more social and collaborative version of the same concept. Clipmarks and Amplify were truly pioneers in the space that we are in, and we -- as well as many others -- are indebted to them for having paved such an important path.

On the sweet side, Clipboard is excited to continue to grow its user base by offering invitations to former Clipmarks and Amplify users. Look for this invitation in the email account that was linked to your previous Clipmarks or Amplify account. You'll find that the underlying premise of the site is similar to Clipmarks and Amplify. We believe that Clipboard expands on those functions to bring you a more enhanced experience.

We are so excited to be expanding our community and we look forward to hearing your feedback about Clipboard. Happy Clipping!

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In case you hadn't noticed, Clipboard just got a design refresh. While we've been incrementally changing the bits and pieces of the site over the last few months, this is the first time we decided to step back and take a look at the site as a whole. We've tried to bring more focus onto your content, de-clutter the UI, and make interacting with clips easier.

Your clips are now presented in a much cleaner and more readable way. Descriptive clip actions are now at the top making them more discoverable. We've added an action counter onto all clips in the tile view, that will keep count of how many people have interacted with the clip. We've also added annotations at the bottom of the thumbnails so you can get a preview of what people have written.

An example clip is displayed below:

Tile View