Pinboard and Delibar kick ass. However I would like Delibar to save the bookmark to a temporary place if Pinboard is currently down. That would be ideal
Pinboard Turns Three
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#22I 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…
I recommend historious (http://historio.us/).
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#23I 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…
I recommend historious ( http://historio.us/ ).
Regular bookmarking workflow like in Pinboard or Delicious works fine for me, and full-text page search exists in Pinboard, I think. I just would like bookmarking service to be up when I save the page.
(It's not that bad if it's down when I try to access my bookmarks. If I were making my own bookmarking service, I'd probably make bookmarklet as independent as possible from the rest of the architecture.)
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#24I 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 $…
I set up an account in June 2009. Pinboard was the first bookmarking site I used, and as the owner says, the speed was the thing. No animated ads, blinking things or huge page load overhead.
Shortly after setting up the pinboard account, I moved the personal Web site off Wordpress back to static html. Pinboard provides the microblogging thing the way I like to do it.
http://idlewords.com/2009/09/how_to_not_get_your_blog_hacked...
(I don't use a local WordPress, huge overhead, I just use a few bash scripts).
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#25Pinboard is absolutely wonderful. The only thing i'm still missing is a nice iPhone bookmarklet i can use to bookmark stuff on-the-go.
I second that. Hopefuly Maciej will put some work in place soon.
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#26Pinboard is absolutely wonderful. The only thing i'm still missing is a nice iPhone bookmarklet i can use to bookmark stuff on-the-go.
The normal bookmarklets work with mobile Safari. The trick is getting the JS on your phone. If you make a new bookmark (for any page) and then change the URL to the right JS, it should work. Originally I had to email the JS to myself, but now I have it up on pastebin.
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#27It's interesting to contrast this post with all the posts about multi million dollar funding rounds currently on the front page.
It's refreshing, honestly. It seems to have more of a clear focus on real value to the user and it feels more like a labor of love and craft on the part of its creator, Mr. Cegłowski... its refreshing to see someone try to make something good rather than something that's simply sellable to VC's.
Now, admittedly, he's probably not getting rich off of the site – the exact number of paying users is hard to discern, but there are 7k more active users now than a year ago, so assuming 50% of people who buy in use it at least once every 30 days, then, conservatively, he's grossed somewhere north of 100k in the last year, right? Even if that's off by a factor of 2, it's not a killing – but it's real money as costs are likely reasonably low given the content he's serving and the low overhead such a small operation would require.
On top of that are the $25/year archival accounts. If 5% of all active users pay for archival accounts (that's a utter guess), that grosses another ~$29k/year. That's workable, definitely... but again, not a killing.
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#28Pinboard is absolutely wonderful. The only thing i'm still missing is a nice iPhone bookmarklet i can use to bookmark stuff on-the-go.
Here's what I use:
Add the post-by-email email address to your contact list, then use the Send To button in Mobile Safari, type "p-i" and touch the pinboard completion.
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#29I 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.
Where can you find bookmarking with archiving for free? (don't say archive.org)
I personally use evernote. Works well enough
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#30I 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 $…
I set up an account in June 2009. Pinboard was the first bookmarking site I used, and as the owner says, the speed was the thing. No animated ads, blinking things or huge page load overhead. Shortly after setting up the pinboard account, I moved the personal Web site off Wordpress back to static html. Pinboard provides the microblogging thing the way I like to do it. http://idlewords.com/2009/09/how_to_not_get_your_b…
Hi
Are your scripts online somewhere? As the creator of "frankenstein's ___.sh"[1] I am always looking at ways to improve it, mostly by peeking at other people's code.