Yet another curious use of "content management": Clippen.com To Launch Web Content Management Tool. "Clippen.com is an Internet company, designed to bring together 'clips' of the exact news from the Web which each individual user wants. The company's clipping technology enables users to 'grab' selected information from any webpage which they seek, and to view that content clip on a variety of platforms including the PC, Palm Pilot and/or digital cell phone." In other words, they're an Octopus/OnePage competitor. (Not really anything to do with content management in the way I'm familiar with the term, at least.)


I tried out the tool. Briefly. It installed something on my hard drive via an ActiveX-induced installation program upon signing into the application. (I let it.) It's definitely very early (it was just released), and it shows. I didn't understand it right away, and the amateurish design didn't give me confidence it was going to be worth figuring it out. I'm sure it will get better, though, because "Clippen.com is a well-funded, pre-IPO Internet company." Shew!