<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"I got an email this week about the latest release of eSnips, a media sharing and bookmarking site.  (So did Mike A. - his review is excellent.) And while the interface improvements are entirely welcome, I can't shrug off the feeling that the site is poorly positioned in the market.  First, some filler:\nWe created eSnips while thinking about how YOU would want to share your stuff. We believe that just like us, you have lots of things to share online. And just like us, you probably want to do it all in ONE place, to have the freedom to share ANY type of information, and to have control over what you share and how you share it.  Then we thought, let's have some fun too, and discover new places and new people while we share.\nI can see a market for that.  But I can also see a much bigger market for specialization.  Here's the thing: when you try to be a social bookmarking site, a photo host and a video host all at once, you're unlikely to do those things better than the specialized solutions.  The old portal strategy was to provide \"everything in one place\", but in the era of APIs and feeds it makes more sense to bring together services from elsewhere.  This explains the sudden surge in ajax start pages: it's a realization that the future lies with aggregating the best solutions, not building weak imitations.  \nNow you could say this is a very biased viewpoint and that mainstream audiences don't use any of these \"Web 2.0\" services.  You'd be right.  But mainstream users are also moving towards aggregation - look at all the MySpace members adding YouTube videos and Stickam webcam widgets to their pages.  Now does it make more sense for MySpace to roll out their own video hosting solution, or rely on the experts (YouTube) to do it?  Clearly, the experts win every time.  So I think the danger for eSnips is that they are neither a specialist nor an aggregator.  And in the age of web services, that's a very tricky position indeed."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2006/03/22/esnips-bookmarking-and-media-sharing/>