[Apture rocks. Click the icon beside Shirky, and the one beside “addons”, and then click each of the icons that I loaded, and watch the magic. I don’t have to spell out how rich a tool this is for every use, educational and otherwise, you can think of, do I? It’s in invitation-only beta right now, so get over there and get it before it runs out. ***UPDATE: A nice person from the Apture team left a comment saying the invitations are out, BUT–if you send an email telling them you saw it on this post, they’ll make an exception for you. So leave a comment saying “I want one, please,” and we’ll try to make that happen. And don’t I feel special? ]

Sitting in my Hong Kong hotel, dinking instead of reading more of the Shirky I bought today. Dinking, particularly, with Apture. To demonstrate its usefulness, I’m going to share a few lesser-known Firefox/Flock addons I’ve installed on my new MacBook this week.  Just click the little icon and see how Apture works.

A screenshot of the Apture popup and search editor (click image for large view):

5 Comments

• At June 18, 2008, Lucia wrote:

  This is so cool. I’ve applied for the beta. Thanks for sharing this!!

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• At June 18, 2008, Theresa Johnson wrote:

  Clay,

  Thanks for the spotlight on Apture, and welcome to the Apture Community! Your Apture windows here are some of the most creative and helpful I’ve seen on the web. We love to get early-adopter feedback, so send us an email to feedback@apture.com with anything you think we should add, change or improve.

  For all of Clay’s readers, due to overwhelming response, our beta invite system is now closed. If you really, really, really want Apture, please send me an email and reference this blog post, and I can manually approve your account.

  Cheers,

  Theresa

  Developer Advocate/ Community Outreach

  Apture.com

• At June 18, 2008, glen wrote:

  I’ve been using Apture on a couple of my blogs too. Loving it!

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• At June 18, 2008, Soojin wrote:

  Mr Burell, heard you were leaving! well… good luck in your new place

  and thanks for the post, that looks really convenient for researching

• At June 18, 2008, Louise Maine wrote:

  I have played with Apture on one of my blogs too, and also used it successfully on one of my wikispaces pages as well. I plan to use it next year with my classes as well and on more of my blog posts. It is a great tool and so easy to use!

  I am also a site reviewer for Teacher’s First and did a review of the tool here.

  Louise Maines last blog post..For a few days…I am unplugged…

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