Clipboard.com note storage service is closing

The Clipboard service, launched 2 years ago (October 13, 2011), closes. Salesforce.com has signed an agreement to acquire Clipboard.com. This was announced on the company's blog on May 9th.

You can use the Clipboard until June 30; All user notes will be available for export to the archive, after which the service will completely remove all content.

Now:

• Registration of new users has been terminated, however, previous users can continue to use the service as usual: create, delete and organize their notes ( hereinafter referred to as clips );
• Those. support stops, tickets for clips are no longer accepted;
• Plugins and widgets are not available for installation;
• Public clips are not available for viewing.

What is it and what does it eat

The free clipboard.com service was designed to store clips. At the touch of a button, the user was asked to save any content: from interesting articles and scientific works to images, links, texts and even web pages. All clips are carefully saved as a gallery in your account on the site. In addition, the service allowed uploading photos and pictures from a computer, creating online photo albums. A great feature and rarity was that the service was completely free.
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Success and gratitude

In almost 2 years of work, 140,000 people created about 3 million clips and over a million people used them . Service became the winner and winner of the " Readers ' Choice 2013 " award held on about.com ( where, among other things, Evernote participated ). Such companies as Apple, Google and Microsoft used it in various marketing companies, for which the authors thank for their support and choice. They also thank everyone who took part in the service, including a group of developers, users, the press, bloggers and all those who invaluably contributed to the development of the service. The Clipboard team assures everyone that it will continue its mission of organizing online notes, only as a part of salesforce.com ( which most likely will affect a paid subscription ). Clipboard's CEO, Gary Flake, will be vice president of development at salesforce.com , followed by a core team of developers and designers.

It should be noted that not so long ago ( in February and March ) a number of serious updates were released aimed at improving the service. The interface has been redesigned, the logic of the application, the ability to download images from the computer and sorting by boards has been added.

Users have already asked many questions regarding the closure of the service. Answers to the most common can be found in a special section FAQ

In the photo below - the development team on the eve of the publication of the sad news.

“We want to express our great gratitude to our users. Your suggestions, content and overall interaction with each other was oxygen for our development. You inspired us and we hope that you have made your life on the Internet a little better, very useful, successful and even a little fun.

It's time to say goodbye. ”

RIP Clipboard.