How as clipboard differentiated from Pinterest? From what I can see, the difference is that it archives whatever you've clipped. Is there a proprietary technology element to this that has value for Salesforce?
Going on one limb here - The vision of Clipboard per Gary William Flake (who is an awesome guy, btw) was laid out while he was working on similar ideas at Microsoft. There were already a few prototypes which I am sure, Microsoft (patent generating machine) would have patented. So, either Clipboard folks have filed a ton of patents as Gary continued to pursue relevant ideas at Clipboard, and are sitting on valuable IP, and SalesForce is buying IP + Gary + Team or just Gary + Team. Acquisition price would be higher in the former scenario (not sure by how much % though)
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How as clipboard differentiated from Pinterest? From what I can see, the difference is that it archives whatever you've clipped. Is there a proprietary technology element to this that has value for Salesforce?
How about that it's already built?
They're shutting it down, and AFAIK storage of information parsed from web pages isn't particularly proprietary.
Going on one limb here - The vision of Clipboard per Gary William Flake (who is an awesome guy, btw) was laid out while he was working on similar ideas at Microsoft. There were already a few prototypes which I am sure, Microsoft (patent generating machine) would have patented. So, either Clipboard folks have filed a ton of patents as Gary continued to pursue relevant ideas at Clipboard, and are sitting on valuable IP, and SalesForce is buying IP + Gary + Team or just Gary + Team. Acquisition price would be higher in the former scenario (not sure by how much % though)
Pinterest grabs images. Clipboard grabs the DOM.