Social:Snip.it

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Snip.it
Snip.it logo.png
Type of site
Social networking service
Available inEnglish, Japanese, Italian, Greek, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese
DissolvedAugust 2014 (2014-08)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA
Key peopleRamy Adeeb (Founder/CEO)
Websitesnip.it
RegistrationRequired for full functionality
LaunchedSeptember 2011; 12 years ago (2011-09)

Snip.it was a social platform for creating collections of articles, videos, and images on the web. Users create and maintain theme-based collections around interests such as politics, science, education, and fashion. Users can browse other collections, 'resnip' from another users collection into their own, comment on or favorite a snip, share on other social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Reddit), and review stats on where their page traffic comes from.[1]

Founded by Ramy Adeeb [2] (of Cairo, Egypt), the site is managed by a team of 6 engineers and funded by True and Khosla Venture [3] as well as several other prominent investors.

On January 22, 2013, Yahoo! acquired Snip.it for an amount of $10 million in total. Snip.it have stopped their services temporarily in order to redesign the site. By March 2013, the site suspended all snipping.[4] By August 2014, the site's url permanently redirected[5] to Yahoo Tech.

Technical

Snip.it's backend is written in Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js and Node.js [6]

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