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Thumbtack is an easy way to save links, photos, and anything else you can find on bunch of different Web sites to a single place. Grab the stuff you want, put it into a Thumbtack collection, then get to it from anywhere you can get online. Share it with your friends, or just keep it for yourself. It’s way easier than sending a bunch of links in an e-mail, and even easier than setting lots of favorites in your browser.
Let’s say you’re trying to find an apartment and your roommate isn’t sitting next to you. You could send a lot of links in an e-mail, and even attach some photos. But that’s not going to show her everything at once—she’d have to click each link and go back and forth among the windows. Instead, you could save every apartment to a single Thumbtack collection— pictures, prices and your own comments about what you like about each one—and then send a single URL to her. She opens your collection and bam, all the information she needs is right in front of her, all in one place.
The Bookmarklet makes it even easier to add to your collections--you can do it with just a click. Plus Thumbtack has gadgets, like the address gadget that will automatically find the address of items in your collection and show you a map of exactly where that place is.
Use it to: plan your party, buy a house, car, prom dress, party shoes or anything else you’d want somebody else’s opinion about; plan a wedding, family reunion or debutante ball; research jobs or places to live, or anytime you need to collect a lot of disparate information from different sites and keep it all in one place.
Thoughts:
It is similar to a hard drive. It provides the user with online space to save files/photos etc. which can be accessed from anywhere. It has the potential to make cd's, usb drives and portable hard drives obsolete. It could also allow people to share files without the use of emails. This means that file size is no longer an issue when sharing information. High res images, detailed 3d models and large pdf files can all be easily shared. Architects could use this technology to when working on collaborative projects with other companies, when someone is working out of the office or even over seas. This technology has the capacity to make the 'office as we know it obsolete, allowing unlimited amounts of data around the world at the touch of a botton.
Potential problems: What happens if the system crashes? Is the information backed up? How are privacy issues dealt with? How do you stop people from viewing your work/personal information/photos.