[itay]

In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a huge benefit.

You can also have things private and/or shared with a select group of people, which is what I usually do.

For example, a common use case I've found is that I'll clip something from Gilt/other signup required sites, to show someone a deal they might be interested in, but they don't want to sign up just to look at it. If they like it, they end up signing up.

[idleloops]

Thanks for that.

So the clips aren't totally live - if you are sharing content that is somehow walled off.

[itay]

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Your clips can be private and shared with a few people (or none), or they can be completely public. In the example I gave, I wouldn't really mind if they were public, but I don't see a reason to make them public - it is just to share with a few friends, really.

[idleloops]

I might have misunderstood the product. I assumed (though this would be tough), that when you took a snippet of a page, and say the page updated later on - the snippet would reflect the change.

You make it sound like the snippets are static caches of content.

[itay]

Yes, that's my understanding as well. That's also what I want. I'm taking a snapshot in time of a page, so that I can then go back to that snapshot and look at it.

Sometimes those snapshots are not valuable after a while, so I delete them :)