The Microsoft Live Labs team has unveiled a new web based bulletin board called Thumbtack that allows you to collect text, links, and photos from across the web and gather them in collections. You can tag and search items and you can share your collections with other users who can leave comments on items.

Of course, when people talk about bulletin boards online, they usually mean discussion forums, so perhaps we should call this more of a refrigerator door that you can plaster with items from around the web.

You can either copy and paste text and images directly into Thumbtack or you can use a browser bookmarklet to automatically add content from any web page without leaving that page. The best way to do this is to highlight the text on the page that you want to save before pressing the bookmarklet, as the tool doesn't handle web pages with a lot of funky HTML and scripts very well and you'll wind up with a lot of unnecessary code in your clipping if you try to capture a whole web page.