General
What is SNiPiTRON®?
SNiPiTRON® is a web based platform built for professionals and academics to capture, store and share information with their colleagues.
SNiPiTRON® allows you to build projects that consist of web pages and content, files, screenshots, and audio/video content — basically any file type of information you can capture. A premium and enterprise version of the service will be launched within a few months, and it will consist of enhanced functionality, increased storage limits, and co-branding the user's corporate identification.
Why should I use SNiPiTRON®?
- Get Organized: Keep all of your information in one place - websites, files, screenshots, and documentation.
- Get Optimized: All of the information stored on our site is search engine-friendly and RSS-enabled. This means that if you make a project public, it will be optimized and distributed automatically to anyone subscribing to SNiPiTRON® news feeds, content or bookmarking.
- Collaborate: Networks allow you to work on a project collaboratively and share information — this is great for team communication or even school research projects.
- Fix old habits: The days of sending huge emails to your colleagues with file attachments or links to multiple websites is over. Post content to a SNiPiTRON® project and take advantage of the easy sharing and collaboration tools.
- Impress your clients: They'll think you are advanced for using this service.
What can I use SNiPiTRON® for?
- Build Research projects online
- Capture and save any file type
- Organize and share projects and files
- Work on group projects and collaborate
- Create email campaigns and market yourself
- And: Bookmarking, File storage, PR scrapbooking, Competitive
analysis, Group projects, Quotations and proposals, Audio and
video, Engineering process documentation, To-do lists, Personal
projects, and a whole lot more.....
Who is SNiPiTRON®?
SNiPiTRON's founders are season internet veterans and serial entrepenuers. In 1998, the founders started a company called Apollo Solutions, Inc. which was acquired by CNET Networks in June of 2000. The product they built transformed into CNET ChannelOnline which is the leading back-end order processing platform for the computer products industry — handling billions of dollars in transactions across thousands of computer resellers in the United States. The founders have been involved in several startups including JiWire, Callpod and Real Estate Ventures.
Can I submit a feature request?
YES ABSOLUTELY! Please send us your ideas as we always consider your feedback for the product roadmap. Please go to
http://www.snipitron.com/contact to submit any feature requests or issues you may have with the product.
We value your input.
How do I remove the SNiPiTRON® tools From Firefox
Go to the Tools Menu and select Add-ons. Click uninstall next to SNiPiTRON for Firefox.
Security
Is this secure? Can I really keep private data on your site?
Yes. SNiPiTRON
® is hosted with
Cari.net Managed Hosting. Our service level agreement with Cari.net is the best in the industry — daily incremental data backups, weekly full backups, and 1-hour hardware replacement guarantees on our servers and networking equipment. We pay a premium for the best service and we extend these terms to our users through the tools that we offer on SNiPiTRON
®. Private projects can only be accessed by yourself and members who you have specifically provided access. SNiPiTRON
® also encrypts sensitive information (like
passwords) in our database to help protect your private data. 128-bit SSL encryption is used during login/registration processes to protect your information when using the service over public wi-fi networks.
Can I get a backup of all my projects?
If you require a backup of your content (which can easily reach into the Gigabytes), there is a charge for delivery of a DVD via FedEx. Please
contact us if you require this service. If you deleted a file or project that needs to be restored from backups, there may also be a charge depending upon the volume of data.
Projects
How do I format the text in my projects to look nice?
SNiPiTRON® has a built-in Rich Text Editor that allows you to easily format the content such as bold, italic, fonts, color, etc. We are also building custom formatted templates for all your email marketing messages to be sent looking custom and professional.
Do I have to make all of my research and Networks publicly available?
No, you can specify a project or Network to be public or private. When you make your research and Networks public, it will allow the world to benefit from your information. If you make your project or Networks private, you can still share it with others by using the Private Group feature.
How can I embed my SNiPiTRON projects into my web site?
There is a syndication module that contains links to syndicate the page that looks like this:
For example, Let's say your username is "joe":
RSS Feed of joe's stuff:
http://rss.snipitron.com/joe
RSS Feed of SNiPiTRON's latest research:
http://rss.snipitron.com
Dynamic HTML of joe's stuff (copy and paste this into your website):
<script src="http://links.snipitron.com/joe" language="Javascript"></script>
Dynamic HTML of SNiPiTRON's latest research:
<script src="http://links.snipitron.com/" language="Javascript"></script>
And don't forget, since SNiPiTRON supports unicode (UTF-8) character sets by default, you probably want to add this tag to your section of your web page:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
Note: SNiPiTRON supports many languages. The format of the URL structure is like this:
http://<language_code>.<feed_type>.snipitron.com/<username>/<Project_Title>/<Citation_Title>
For example:
http://fr.rss.snipitron.com/joe (French RSS feed of joe's stuff)
http://cn.links.snipitron.com/search?s=life (Chinese embedded HTML of a search)
http://jp.snipitron.com/joe (Japanese homepage)
Does SNiPiTRON work on my Mac?
Yes!
Download the app for Mac or the Firefox add-on. If you have special requests, please
let us know.
Payments
Do I have to pay?
Currently, SNiPiTRON
® is free. However we will be rolling out our Pro, Enterprise, Co-Branded services as well as our Add-Ons in August of 2008 that is based on storage volume and per-seat licensing. Go to
http://www.snipitron.com/pricing to check out our current pricing or email us at
sales@snipitron.com for more information.