Xmarks Bookmark Synchronization Service to Fold
Some of us here at TidBITS were very bummed to read Steven Vaughan-Nichols's ZDNet blog post bemoaning the 10 January 2011 shutdown of Xmarks, which synchronizes bookmarks between different browsers, including Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome, even across operating systems. We never got around to writing about Xmarks in TidBITS, but that was merely a lack of time, not a lack of enthusiasm. If only other synchronization services were as good! [Update: Since we initially linked to Steven's post, things have changed and it sounds as though Xmarks may have a second chance; see "Xmarks Is Dead. Long Live Xmarks?" on the Xmarks blog mentioned in the comments for details.]
With 22 millions download on Firefox we should be able to o get them around $500.000 by requesting $1- from all users : 1% of Firefox users alone should be $220 000, Campaign average a return rate of 3%...
Yeah, it seems a little surprising that they haven't tried the simple plea for money from users.
They have actually http://blog.xmarks.com/
Their is hope. Please report on it. Check out their blog.
Excellent - I'll see if I can find the time to write some more about this.
I would be in for a yearly subscription fee.
This add-on is probably the most used/useful add-on I have on all my computers.
Urging the authour to give it a shot.