We're not sure the world needs another offshoot of Pinterest and Facebook, but the new Springpad is just that: the once-private personal aggregator has gone public, revamping its iOS app and encouraging its users to share discoveries with their social circles.
At its core, Springpad is something of a cross between a secretary and assistant. As you go about your day, Springpad collects everything you throw at it -- including bookmarks, article clippings, notes, and photos -- grabbing and sorting your digital paraphernalia via a complementary web clipper. Snapshots of websites are saved (or rather Springed, since every social network needs its own verb) quickly and smoothly.
Inside Springpad, any number of customizable notebooks can be filled with all sorts of things. Web clippings wind up here, of course, and photos and notes can be added, too; plus, a speedy search bar trawls the web for books, movies, TV shows, recipes, and Amazon listings that can be saved for future reference. It's not the most polished interface, but Springpad does an admirable job organizing your digital life.
The social aspects, however, aren't quite as well-thought-out. The general idea is to simply open up your notebooks for public consumption, but that also involves a shift in approach; Springpad is something of a personal experience, so creating a public notebook requires a conscious effort. And the most popular shared notebooks I found were fairly generic lists of things like recipes and movies. Springpad might be on to something, but I'm happy to keep my sliders set to private.
Bugs are fairly prevalent in the current build, and while most aren't too hindering, a couple were very bothersome. The buttons sorting my content were extremely slow to respond (to the point where it was quicker to find things by scrolling through everything I had saved), and Amazon search results often came back with error messages when clicking on an item. The bottom line. Even overlooking an infestation of bugs, Springpad's coming-out party left me underwhelmed.
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We're not sure the world needs another offshoot of Pinterest and Facebook, but the new Springpad is just that: the once-private personal aggregator has gone public, revamping its iOS app and encouraging its users to share discoveries with their social circles.
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