Microsoft Live Labs has released a new web clipping service called Thumbtack, that enables users to compile links, media, and text snippets and store them online for future reference. In addition to storing these useful pieces of information for themselves, users could also share it with their family and friends and have them collaborate to their repository.

Thumbtack is definitely not a market pioneer in this area, as TechCrunch points out that their are a lot of other services that already provide similar functionality:

There are a number of sites that offer some very similar functionality, including Google Notebook, Evernote (covered here), SimplyBox, and Snipd. There’s also Twine, a web clipping service that can automatically categorize items using semantic sorting technology. The Labs Team has tried to explain what differentiates Thumbtack in its FAQ:

While there are several applications that overlap with functionality in Thumbtack, they all serve specific constituencies related to list making or note taking. Thumbtack focuses on being a repository and crossroads for user collected content from across the web. It emphasizes the activities that follow the act of gathering – archival, research, sharing and publishing. Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning…

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