Comment by j45 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by j45 | Hacker News Reader

- http://www.diigo.com - I was never able to use any online bookmarking service for the last 10-15 years. Diigo got online bookmarking right. I would frantically pay someone to re-build diigo for me if it ever went away. I can't process, organize or navigate the internet without it.

The best feature is it's highlighting. We don't save bookmarks in our minds, but specific sentences or paragraphs. Diigo lets us highlight those and saves them right into my Diigo account/stream. I can then simply search diigo not only by keyword or bookmark, but the phrases that stuck out to me in the first place to make me want to bookmark it.

The second best feature is being able to publish the links to multiple groups so effortlessly.

- http://www.fogbugz.com (hosted) - keeps my consulting and product dev flow going.

- http://www.freshbooks.com - Trivializes the slippery slope of managing billable hours not only for you but for sub-contractors.

- http://www.bitbucket.org - Free, unlimited private repositories. Beneficial to someone like me who has a lot of small projects. I hope Github gets this soon.

I will try not to get my hopes up too much before I try it, but this may, this may, be what I have been looking for to manage bookmarks across browsers (and even across Windows installations if I need to).

Let me know how you find it and what works and what didn't... It sounds like you have a lot of bookmarks.

I second Diigo. Been using this service for years and as a technologist having the ability to do a keyword search of your bookmarks as awesome, especially when you can upload to Diigo's repository.

"Free, unlimited private repositories."

Best of luck to BitBucket but why on earth would Github do this? They're a business

The same question could be asked why Github gives away so many free repos to open-source projects... :)

Bitbucket is a business too. I have no issue paying them.

Besides, storing bytes costs pennies, or less.

Marketshare.

Everyone knows about GitHub because everyone shares links to their projects hosted on GitHub! Same reason they provide https://gist.github.com/ and http://pages.github.com

Whether you eventually want to start your own business or just want to work for a good company ; you still end up at the same place - in a team environment, needing secure, painless version control hosting. I can tell you right now there is no other service I would use or recommend other than GitHub.

Wow - hadn't heard of diigo but I'm glad you listed them - looks awesome!

Glad I'm not alone

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