evernote has me excited

Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Yousef Ourabi

I rarely get pumped out about tech startups — they are a dime a dozen — and the ideas behind them are usually bad.

Evernote is an exciting startup — when I day-dream about the future of the web — this is the sort of thing I imagine.

It’s a service that lets you take pictures of anything, and upload them. Simple enough. The twist is that it has out-of-this-world optical character recognition and will find snippets of text wherever they appear on the image — and then evernote creates a full-text search engine (think google) of that text –
This is a totally amazing startup, and I won’t be surprised if they get snapped up by one of the big boys.

Keep your eye on their site:  http://www.evernote.com/

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2 Responses to “evernote has me excited”

  1. mrgleeco, on February 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 am Said:

    serious bladerunner candy! Wonder how much of the vid was scifi & doctored. I’m awaiting login…

    If they can do utf-8, she-ite man, let the bidding begin!
    adobe? google/picasa? apple?

  2. yourabi, on February 24th, 2008 at 4:20 am Said:

    Word — let me know when you have your login. Can’t wait to see if it has legs — I think google would probably go for it — they have the infrastructure to handle all those “evernotes”

    Though an evernote / iphone combo would be a pretty sweet setup for information discovery / retrieval — it’s probably a little too sci-fi for Steve

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