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Microsoft Live Labs Thumbtack

Microsoft Live Labs 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.  

Access it at: http://thumbtack.livelabs.com/

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