Clipmarks is a free online service that lets you mark parts of a web page.

You turn on clipmarks (after installing an extension for either IE, Firefox or, in my case, Flock) and simply click on the parts of a page you want to bookmark.

When you’re done selecting text, pictures or even video, you save your clippings, and can then choose to publish them to your clipmarks page or your blog, or you can send them to a friend as an email.

What kinda ticked me off when I first signed up to clipmarks, is that I’ve been using de.licio.us for a while, and I really didn’t need the hazzle of keeping two services up to snuff.

But I quickly learned that in your clipmarks profile you can choose to bookmark either the permalink (yes – all of your clippings get a permalink, which is a really nice little feature) or the source of your clipping – that is the original page, as you would normally do – to your de.licio.us account. This is done automatically, so you don’t have to remember it from time to time.

If you do a lot of bookmarking, and you like sharing your bookmarks, clipmarks could very well be the thing for you.

I’ve clipped part of the clipmarks frontpage as a test – here’s the permalink

In short, Scrapblog lets you import photos from a number of different services – I use Flickr but you can also import from Photobucket, Yahoo photos and Webshots.

Once your selected photos are imported, you can create presentations from a handful of set templates (one of which is blank), adding your pics, music, text and transitions (much like a scaled down version of Poweroint or Key Note).

Once you’re happy with your work you can save it, export it to different formats (i.e. pictures in a dedicated photoset on Flickr) and you can publish your scrapblogs for your friends and/or the world to see.

I won’t be switching from doing presentations in Key Note anytime soon, but Scrapblog has definitely found a sweet spot somewhere in between traditional photo-sharing sites and desktop presentation tools.

I like it a lot, and I’m sure it wil be taking up a hell of a lot of my time in the future.

First up – a couple of good photosharing sites that are serious competitors to Flickr. I’ve tried them both, and I think they’re great – however, I’ve been using Flickr since forever, so it’s not easy for me to switch (I guess you could call that ‘stickyness’, right):

albinogorilla
Great for moblogging. Fantastically easy upload via the mobile phone, and a nice flash-based look.

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Very Flickr-like if you ask me. I’ve recommended it to several friends and family members. Particularly those who experience an unnecessary language-barrier when trying to settle in to Flickr.

Next, a couple of sites that, in each their own way, really mean bizz when it comes to user generated content

mitkbh
Copenhagen residents rate virtually everything in Copenhagen. From restaurants and bars to beautiful sites and the places to go for shopping. Navigation via tags, and real user generated content. I predict they’ll leave their competition in the dust once the general public get into mitkbh

avisen.dk
If you ask me, avisen.dk offers a sneak peak into the future of newspapers. They do a print version too, which, for obvious reasons, I find less interesting, but their online efforts are lightyears ahead of other Danish newspapers.

overskrift.dk
Denmark’s most comprehensive RSS feed and weblog portal – a great place for keeping track of the Danish blogosphere

These are just the tip of the iceberg – I’m sure I’ll think of loads more, and in the mean time – help me out, huh? what are your favorite 2.0 sites?

P.S. I can’t help but mention a site that would do itself a major favour if it went a bit more 2.0. 16-9 is my absolute favourite film site. It tends (willingly) towards the academic and offers a rarely seen analytical view of cinema. Comments and user generated contributions would SO suit this place…

UPDATE: Dion Hinchcliffe has compiled quite a list of the best web 2.0 software of 2006 (none of it Danish, though )