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Simple & Not Social Bookmarking Service

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Doesn't look that different from http://www.google.com/bookmarks/

Except your personal data isn't being shared with some giant ad corp. that will undoubtedly be using it for profit down the road.

Why would someone prefer this bookmarking service over Delicious.com ??

Because delicious is daunting, complicated, and scary.

It's also not really "bookmarks" and more of a place to put foraged links.

No, it's not daunting, complicated, nor scary. And it's bookmarklet for adding bookmark is very similar to this one. Now, really, why whould you use this over delicious?

The sharing thing is terrifying for "regular" users. Privacy is almost always seen as a plus. The UI is radically more complex than necessary.

There's a thousand things wrong. It could be better.

Bonus hint: Check my profile.

Oh, Jushua itself. Sorry, didn't recognize you from the nickname. ;-) I for one am still a del.icio.us user. Despite Yahoo screwing up your ingenious design (and URL name ;-)), the service still works for me. So far, so good.

Because sometimes, you just want to put bookmarks on the web for yourself. Delicious leaves something to be desired as a bookmark organizer. For organizing things for myself, I'd rather have folders than tags.

Now now, let's not go too far.

I've traditionally used Foxmarks (now called Xmarks) for organization (it allows me to access my bookmarks when I'm in the computer lab at school, for example), and recently created a Delicious account because my.foxmarks is awful. I've found about 100 great links in the past few days just by checking out the collections of folks who share lots of my bookmarks. I hate that you can't view popular tag combinations (only recent or personal ones), but perhaps this will come.

I'd kill to have something that syncs my bookmarks, passwords and history, and also analyzes the data somehow. Mozilla Weave is on the right track as far as syncing history, but buggy for me. A Foxmarks/Weave/Google Web History/RescueTime combo, perhaps. With an Awesome Bar-like search UI and interesting analytics. And web-based so I can access this stuff from afar. I think an FF extension would be necessary to sync the data, but it'd be great if it could comb data even when I'm using IE in a computer lab [security issues abound, I know].

Note: I would bend over backwards to pay for something like this. Somebody make this something that I want.

To those that are about to tell me to make it myself, I'm not quite there yet. Soon though ;-)

I like del.icio.us because I can pull RSS feeds for various tags, and place them on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. Can I do this with bookmarks2?

This way I don't save any 'local' Firefox bookmarks. The sharing aspect isn't even an issue unless you don't want anyone to know your favorite sites.

BTW http://delicious.com/popular/ is a gold mine everyday for designers/developers and all around geeks.

I'm a fan of ReadItLater, as it also comes with a "text only" function. Furthermore, the best articles eventually go to GiveMeSomethingToRead.com, which has a nice article selection (sadly only one or two) every day.

Full disclosure: I am actually not affiliated in any way.

I really like the design and clean interface. One minor comment: you may want to change that green button to read: "Register for free" instead of "Registration for free"

yes the world is getting more simple than social.

i'm using delicious from the beginning, mostly for bookmarking. to get more news / for discovery today there are plenty new ways than the delicious network.

keep up guys!

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