My studiomate Cameron and his FictiveKin crew have been cooking up a fantastic new service and they didn’t let me write about until today! Now, talk about torturing a blogger!
Gimme Bar is the name of their brilliant visual booksaving service. Yes, you read right, I said visual bookSAVING, not visual bookmarking. Whenever you ‘gimme bar’ a photo/website/recipe/text you save the item. Literally. How? You well, by saving it to your Gimme Bar page and by saving it to your Dropbox account. You gimmie something and boom, it’s not only on your Gimmie Bar account but also on your hard drive.
Gimme Bar‘s interface is clean and a pleasure to use. It lets you organize your findings in collections, easily follow what your friend’s collections and add their content to yours, all with just a few clicks.
Gimme Bar is still in private Beta but they are opening it up for 3 days for my swissmiss readers, starting today. Take advantage of this and sign up *now*. They’ll close it up again thursday night!
Not sure yet why Gimme Bar is better than other seemingly similar services? Well, watch the demo below and you’ll be in the know.
www.gimmebar.com Sign up is opening up for three days only!
ps: It’s Cameron’s birthday today! Let’s make it a good one and share that GimmeBar Goodness!
YES YES YES! Such a great product. Can’t wait to see the world using GimmeBar.
Aug 30th, 2011 / 2:19 pm
Gimmebar is an awesome idea, I use it all the time now!
Aug 30th, 2011 / 2:28 pm
The great thing about gimmebar is it will archive all forms of digital data. No more depending on url structures staying the same for your already unorganized bookmarks. For me it’s definitely become an essential tool for gathering and archiving.
Aug 30th, 2011 / 2:44 pm
YAY
Aug 30th, 2011 / 2:46 pm
Just signed up! Let’s see…
Aug 30th, 2011 / 2:51 pm
Neat! hmmmm, I wonder how this can be a productivity tool at the office……..
Aug 30th, 2011 / 2:53 pm
Using it! Instant new fave. #yay
Aug 30th, 2011 / 3:33 pm
I will definitely use this! Exactly the data-saving tool I was hoping/looking/expecting for. Thank you! :)
Aug 30th, 2011 / 3:45 pm
I am in love with this! Not a lot of work about to happen!
Aug 30th, 2011 / 4:07 pm
Smells like constant copyright infringement to me. How can they seriously save all the original files?
Aug 30th, 2011 / 5:00 pm
How is this different from Pinterest?
Aug 30th, 2011 / 6:05 pm
I’m with @Peer. It comes across as an app that makes it easy to steal the actual content that anyone posts to the internet. If for some reason it isn’t that, then their video needs a little bit of a re-work.
Aug 30th, 2011 / 7:19 pm
Just signed up- I’m excited to start using it!
I felt like it was worth mentioning(since it’s in Beta) that the form where you are supposed to input username, email, and password wasn’t labeled or defined- I had to guess what information was requested and which box to put it in. If it matters, I’m using Firefox3.6.2 & OSX 10.6.8. Maybe pass it along to Cameron?
Aug 30th, 2011 / 9:46 pm
Really a cool tool but as @peer mentioned, keeping a copy of the content is definitely a copyright infringement.
Aug 31st, 2011 / 1:26 am
looks great, but why did they chose to chop off some of my vertical space when I have so mutch space on the sides? with widering screens I need bettrer use for my horizontal space.
Aug 31st, 2011 / 3:24 am
Great but I Couldn’t drag the bookmarklet to the bookmarkbar in chrome.
Aug 31st, 2011 / 3:59 am
What’s the difference between using the bookmarklet and installing the Gimme bar? Don’t like the way that if I install the Gimmebar it can access my data on all websites & my tabs and browsing activity.
Aug 31st, 2011 / 8:41 am
Started using it yesterday, literally can’t stop! Aesthetically and organizationally pleasing. Sharing it with everyone I know.
Aug 31st, 2011 / 8:48 am
please dont let them close it down!
Aug 31st, 2011 / 9:32 am
– bookmarklet isn’t working in chrome
– couldn’t tell if gimmebar gives full credit to all artists or links back to original source (best example of where that doesn’t work: tumblr) that are “gimmied” because i’m on chrome and i don’t want them to access my data and browsing history by installing the extension
hope to see improvements!
Aug 31st, 2011 / 10:05 am
This is going to make life a little easier! Thanks.
Aug 31st, 2011 / 1:34 pm
Just signed up–LOVE IT!
Aug 31st, 2011 / 2:39 pm
I don’t want people using this on my site – its just encouraging (even more) theft. Is there a way for me to block or disable it when people access my site?
Sep 1st, 2011 / 2:30 pm
I LOVE Co-Design and I love the Gimm Bar – help – how do I get it?
Sep 7th, 2011 / 9:13 am
Alright people you need to stop freaking out.
This service is just like bookmarking on steroids (with automatic backups to dropbox). It automatically picks up on the source of all the content you save which in a way makes it less likely for the whole ‘stealing’ stuff to go on.
The only thing this service will mean is more traffic to your site if something gets bookmarked.
One thing I have to say though it that it very, very similar to zoo-tool but has a cleaner/more intuitive interface.
Already send loads of feedback to them and really enjoying the program so far!
Sep 7th, 2011 / 2:21 pm
want it – now!
Sep 7th, 2011 / 11:04 pm
What about DROPMARK?
Is this project the same?
Sep 18th, 2011 / 6:27 am
This seems a lot like Evernote’s webclipping tool (but nicer! :)
Sep 28th, 2011 / 11:52 pm
i really like it! i hope it gets enough users to keep it going, because i LOVE that you have the option to keep things private (unlike pinterest) thank you for sharing and promoting!
Apr 18th, 2012 / 7:13 pm