As you read on the web, instead of just bookmarking, Monkiri.com lets you snap a picture of portions of web pages that are of particular interest to you.

Monkiri.com lets you grab any part of the web page and instantly publish it either on your Monikri blog or send it to your Blogger or Wordpress blog.

Literally Monkiri means the Japanese art of paper cutting. Newspaper clippings are always a means amongst any knowledge enthusiasts to store a piece of information. In the web world Monkiri meets the same need.

With the help of Monkiri button a user can snap required portion of the item on the web page and can also blog and share it with others. The ‘View Entries’ feature from Monkiri menu enables other interested users to visit the blogged item and comment on the same. In this way everyone visiting that page can review the comments giving one a potentially large audience. Over a period of time users can build up an online journal of articles of interest. In other words, Monkiri makes blogging and sharing a simple affair.

One of the main features of Web 2.0 is the democratization of the web where web users are no longer content to be passive observers of information that has been provided to them – they want to be active participants. Monkiri has been developed to take this advantage of Web 2.0.

Apart from being a research tool, Monkiri plans to make it a collaborative research tool and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site.

Monkiri.com is based in Pune, India.