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Pinboard Turns Three
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#12I heard of it, but never used it. I currently use delicious & google bookmarks. This sounds amazing, but site fails to show what export methods it has unless I sign up first. All it says is "You can export your bookmarks in a variety of formats". Could I import back to Google bookmarks or back to Delicious?
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#13I thought about migrating my sporadic Delicious use over when it was $5. At some point I turned on a WordPress plugin to display recent bookmarks from Delicious and again considered migrating over when 404s started appearing in my feed, I think it was up to $7 by then. Finally Delicious was acquired and browser plugins and features started to smell bad so I paid $9. I'm sad it took me so long, not because the extra $4 was an issue but because I wasted far more of my time with an inferior product.
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#14I heard of it, but never used it. I currently use delicious & google bookmarks. This sounds amazing, but site fails to show what export methods it has unless I sign up first. All it says is "You can export your bookmarks in a variety of formats". Could I import back to Google bookmarks or back to Delicious?
Pinboard can export Netscape-style HTML bookmarks, Delicious-compatible XML, and JSON. It can also import directly from Delicious, but I'm not sure about Google.
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#15I signed up when Maciej first went public with it. Was that ever a good decision. I had been using del.icio.us since 2003 (again, signed up when joshu first opened it to the public). Importing my Delicious bookmarks was painless, and there was no friction whatsoever. Yes, actual users paying for software is a sustainable business.
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#16I still can't believe this model is working for this guy. $230k in 2 years is not bad for a paid-only service that people can find elsewhere for free.
Where can you find bookmarking with archiving for free? (don't say archive.org) You have to add the $25/year archival users to that number too.
Delicious and Pinterest don't let you see your old bookmarks?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where can you find bookmarking with archiving for free? (don't say archive.org) You have to add the $25/year archival users to that number too.
Delicious and Pinterest don't let you see your old bookmarks?
Archiving as in the service also stores the content of the bookmarks, in case the original site goes down.
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#18Oh. This is a nice coincidence - I just wrote a paean to Pinboard as a great example of a product done well here [1]. (Okay, it's not really lyrical, just an everyday blog post)
This was just recently when Maciej just gave away the schema to the site! [2] I'm still reeling from the awesomeness of that move..
[1] http://shrik.theswamp.in/2012/07/youre-doing-it-right.html
[2] http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/06/do_it_yourself_bookmarking/
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#19I tried and used many different bookmarking services, but in the long term ended up using none. Recently the need became apparent, though, and I signed up for Pinboard.
Pinboard is nice, but sadly, as much as I like it or admire its founder, I can't recommend it. Just because of the uptime. I don't think I'm a heavy user (have around 120 bookmarks since joining in March), however two times I couldn't save a bookmark because Pinboard was down.
This led to my realization that 1) the primary purpose of bookmark manager is to allow user to quickly save the page and forget about it, so uptime matters, although I took it for granted before, and that 2) reliability is (maybe the only) one nice thing about free services owned by a large faceless corporations.
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#20Pinboard is absolutely wonderful. The only thing i'm still missing is a nice iPhone bookmarklet i can use to bookmark stuff on-the-go.