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Pinboard Now Offers Bookmark Archiving for $25 Per Year

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Diigo does this for free. You can bookmark the page, save a cached copy and optionally annotate the page as well. They have browser plugins for Firefox and probably IE and a JavaScript bookmarklet that works with Chrome and Safari etc.

I just checked out Diigo and it looks pretty cool. It lets you annotate, share, and search your archived bookmarks which as far as I can tell, Pinboard doesn't do.

On the other hand, Diigo only stores the HTML (like wget) and a screenshot, whereas Pinboard will store the CSS, Javascript, images, and embedded videos, similar to what right-click, Save As would do (minus the video?).

It's hard to compete with free and more features.

Is there any better way to phrase this than Bookmark Archiving? I was assuming it was just bookmarks syncing ala Xmarks or Google, which honestly is more my fault than theirs. I'm probably not the only one, though.

Won't sign up--Firefox's Save As Web Page, Complete in a Dropbox folder is good enough for me.

If I were still a student depending on webpages to stay up so I could quote them, though, this would be a no brainer. Hope you guys have some luck.

I don't get it. What's the point of having bookmarks on a server? What if I need them while I'm on an airplane?

What if the page’s content is changed a year later? Or deleted? Or the site is sold? Or the domain expires? You bookmarked what it was, not what it is.

You got his point backwards -- one of the main use cases for saving the contents of bookmarks is that you have an offline copy, not just a frozen copy.

Great idea! I would buy this service, but @ 9.99 per year. At 25,00 actually makes me think... but good luck!

Better yet - offer the service free-to-use with some trivially low amount of space (like 5MB) and then charge per year on amount of space ($10/yr = 50MB, etc).

If you need a robust solution for tracking updates on the pages or sites you bookmark, I highly recommend perpetually.com.

Here's a seriously stupid question: what's the difference between this and hitting the "Clip to Evernote" button on my browser?

As a side note, I've never really understood "social bookmarking." Isn't it just like a cross between Reddit and Google Reader?

Pinboard actually pitches itself as "Antisocial Bookmarking".

Yeah, but why not use this article as an opportunity to rant about something he is too cool to get?

Or you could wget pages to a dropbox folder to accomplish the same kind of functionality for free.

Tell this to 90% - 95% of the world who has Windows as a desktop.

Wget does exist for Windows, but your point still stands. Most people don't know what a browser is, it's just "the internet."

Something else to do, something else to forget. You could run your own bookmark server for not much work too, but for the price of a round of drinks, I'm happy to let Maciej handle it for me.

I am currently using http://www.zotero.org/ on Firefox with Dropbox.

Wow.... Great website. - You can do this access Google Document - Create a new doc named it "My Personal Links" - Copy and paste the link into your "My Personal Links" - FREE!!!!!!

Errr.... I don't think that you got the service idea.

Nope you don't get my point. There is a lot of application out there that with the same service for FREE.

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