Web-Chops Captures Pieces of Your Web

Back on the testing trail I ran across Web-Chops, a cool capture tool that lets users “chop” any element from individual pages and perform mashups on their Web-Chop pages. This service is in public alpha right now and I must say that it is not only fun but has some interesting potential. I chopped out some beautiful ladies from one of the top 50 lists in no time and supplied the result in a screen below titled “Web-Lamb-Chops.”

Web-Chops

This service is designed to be a fun and easy way to gather, organize and share specific content. Users can simply use the downloaded tool bar “chopper/saver” icons to create pages containing the “actual” content they desire from video and text to flash and forms. The UI of Web-Chops is really overly simple and adding and moving elements is a snap. When turned on the toolbar “chopper” enables specific data to be saved as illustrated in the shot below.

Fig. 1. Highlighted green area to be copied via click. Angelina # 42 Whassup wid dat?

Alpha Remember

Web-Chops is currently in alpha testing and the project is a one man show so far as Nir Halutzy is developing this tool from Tel-Aviv, Israel. The service is relatively simplistic and underdeveloped right now compared to startups like Second Brain and Particls, but I see something rather Stumbledlike version 2 about this idea. I had difficulty getting the exact formula for adding YouTube video as the “chopper” seemed to only want to copy the link for viewing at the YouTube site. A player inside Web-Chops would make better use of the data. The picture elements I added were also a little difficult to configure to my taste as well and I would suggest more flexibility inside the Web-Chops UI for configuring captured data.

Is It Cool?

Chopping is definitely cool - fun and my feeling is that the site could really catch on once some money and time is thrown into it. Perhaps the greatest thing about testing some alphas is that almost anything is still possible with regard to user recommendations and innovation. The technology is out there to build almost any of the sites into the next-greatest-thing really.

Fig. 2. Lambchops from AskMen