Snip.it
Type of site | Social networking service |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, Japanese, Italian, Greek, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA |
| Key people | Ramy Adeeb (Founder/CEO) |
| Slogan(s) | Collect the Web |
| Website |
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| Registration | Required for full functionality |
| Launched | September 2011 |
Snip.it is a social platform for creating collections of articles, videos, and images on the web. Users create and maintain theme-based collections around interests such as politics, science, education, and fashion. Users can browse other collections, 'resnip' from another users collection into their own, comment on or favorite a snip, share on other social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Reddit), and review stats on where their page traffic comes from.[1]
Founded by Ramy Adeeb [2] (of Cairo, Egypt), the site is managed by a team of 6 engineers and funded by True and Khosla Venture [3] as well as several other prominent investors.
On January 22, 2013, Yahoo! acquired Snip.it for an amount of $10 million in total. Snip.it have stopped their services temporarily in order to redesign the site. By March 2013, the site suspended all snipping. [4] By August 2014, the site's url permanently redirected[5] to Yahoo Tech.
Technical
Snip.it's backend is written in Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js and Node.js [6]
External links
References
- ↑ "TechCrunch - Hands-On With The Newly Revamped Snip.it: Where Pinterest Meets News, And So Much More".
- ↑ "FastCompany Meet Snip.It Founder Ramy Adeeb, Who's Debunking Web-Induced A.D.D.".
- ↑ "Khosla Ventures-Backed Snip.it Lets You Clip, Save And Share Collections Of Content On The Web".
- ↑ "WayBack Machine, March 2013". Archived from the original on March 2, 2013.
- ↑ "WayBack machine, August 2014". Archived from the original on August 28, 2014.
- ↑ "Making Snip.it".