People who do a lot of copying of quotes from other sites are going to like Kwout, which launched yesterday. Use it to grab a quick quotation or other screen shot from a web site and embed it into a blog or other website (one click to Flickr and Tumblr).
To grab a quote, just type a URL into the Kwout home page, or use the bookmarklet when on a web page. A new window pops up that allows you to make a selection, resize the window, and grab it. Others can then easily grab the quote and embed it as well by clicking on the link below the image. Here’s an example:
Techcrunch via kwout
The tool isn’t perfect yet – resizing is clumsy, for example. Google recently released a similar tool to allow embeds of quotes from books they’ve scanned, but what Kwout has done is more widely useful. See Go2Web2 and Library Stuff for more.
Thanks for the shout out Mike. My blog is Library Stuff, not Library Thing. I hope all is well.
yeah…sorry about that. fixed.
quoting via images? pretty darn dumb, crappy image, does not index, text does not scale…
yeah, the no-indexing is a small problem, but most people won’t care. The scaling issue needs to be fixed.
I agree with Damon- this thing is ridiculous. Ever hear of a little thing called ‘copy and paste’?
Their stronger feature is the one for Flickr and Tumblr.
I uploaded this without actually uploading..
http://flickr.c...iy1/2138614085/
I just clicked it!
“the scaling needs to be fixed”, yeah, like use text instead of images.
Your text size is really small… Mike…
And exactly WHAT is the advantage over copy & paste or a link?
It looks pretty, but yeah, I’m with the others in the whole “why can’t you just copy/paste” thing. Seems like overkill.
I understand the giving credit to who credit is due,but, This method seems to have 1 too many steps…
I kind of like it, as you get to show a mini screenshot as well as doing a copy+paste at the same time. Its not the kind of thing I’d use a lot but it could be handy now and again.
Having said that, I just tried it and it left a big blue border round my ‘Kwout’ http://1placeto...-quote-web.html
(not sure if thats something in my CSS? I don’t think so but I’m not a CSS expert)
That’s funny, me and my friend just spent a few days building something similar over the holidays. Except with ours you just install a Firefox plugin or bookmarklet, highlight the text, and right click. Ours is at SnipQuote.com. Yes, shameless plug, I know.
Interesting take on the “quote” sector of the web, looking forward to seeing how it gets adopted across other sites.
Jon
Clipmarks is the closest competitor here (and is a lot better/fully featured), I can’t believe no one has suggested it and Arrington didn’t include it in the original.
Very useful tool (with FF toolbar) for rapid blogging and “clipping”.
I think it’ll become very useful!
I’ve put a more ‘challenging’ kwout-grab on my blog: http://normob.b...-clickable.html
@Larry (#13) – SnipQuote is absolutely nothing like kwout.
I can see what they are trying to do, but from that image, it’s not something I will be using straight away…
This is for lazy folks who don’t want to use Prt Scrn with Gimp/PS/simple photo editor and write some html. It is a faster way, I’ll give it that but not really necessary.
although scaling is currently an issue – this is a great tool for blogging!
Nice try but the non-indexing and image method blows.
The best social networking quotation site is still http://www.QuotationsBook.com
Check them out!
Scoble did a nice interview with its founder which was inspiring for the future of words/quotes on the web!
Pai
My main problem: when taking screen shots of a site like Facebook, for example, the screen shot shows me logged out and taking a picture of the homepage. Given that a lot of the sites I need to snap require registration, the tool’s nearly useless until it’s fixed.
Turning quotes into unreadable unindexable un-copy-pasteable images that increase bandwidth use and slow the page down? Dumbest idea in months.
Thanks, you always come up with the best posts! I was inspired to blog about Kwout too, thanks to your informative post about it.
I heard they got a 5 million in funding!
Why not?
The unicode support is not complete. Tried to grab a page from http://www.thorappan.com, and I see just blocks in the image.
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