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Xmarks is discontinuing it's service

Xmarks is discontinuing it's service

Just got this email from them.

Dear Xmarks User,

We've always said we won't email you unless it's important; this is one of those occasions:

Xmarks will be shutting down our free browser synchronization services on January 10, 2011. For details on how to transition to recommended alternatives, consult this page. http://www.xmarks.com/about/shutdown

For the full story behind the Xmarks shutdown, please read our blog post.

Thank you for being a part of the Xmarks community; we apologize for any inconvenience this step may cause you. We believe we have the best users in the world, and we hope your bookmarks find a new and happy home soon.

Asynchronously,

— The Xmarks Team
 
No... no... noooooooo! I love Xmarks, it has been absolutely flawless cross-platform, cross-browser, etc. This really sucks.
 
VideoFreek said:
No... no... noooooooo! I love Xmarks, it has been absolutely flawless cross-platform, cross-browser, etc. This really sucks.
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I'm bummed! :( I regularly use both Firefox and Chrome on 6 computers, so it's important to me to have all my 600 or so bookmarks synchronized. Hopefully someone comes out with a replacement.
 
Saw this the other day... sucks. :(

It's not like there's another able alternative out there either.
 
I use Delicious because I need access to my bookmarks on all of my machines, including work, where I can't install anything - so the web access is a necessity.

I use Delibar - which I really like - on my Mac, so my bookmarks are always available regardless of which browser I'm using.

I'm not a big fan of Delicious on the web, but it serves my purposes.
 
mikerr said:
..but they won't even try?

Personally I'd pay a $10/year for it...
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I’m with you, mikerr, as apparently are several other users, if you scan the 3,400+ comments on their blog post announcing the shut down. My hope is that they’ll rethink the free model and consider a paid one between now and January when the plug gets kicked out of the wall.

I can’t fathom what my computing life will be like if I can’t sync bookmarks across not only multiple browsers but multiple computers (as someone who travels heavily for work). :(
 
Need Alternative with Multiple Browsers and Multiple Macs

I will miss Xmarks tremendously. I have multiple Macs both laptops and desktops for my personal use. Xmarks was the only bookmarks sync program that could do both for free.

I think Bookmarksync is the only other alternative. But, I believe it is a pay for service. Does anybody use Bookmarksync?
 
Been using Xmarks for years to sync my home Mac, (HT)PC, and work PC with Chrome, FireFox, Safari and IE. How I'm I going to do this now?:confused:
 
Nooooo! I just read the news today and am bummed. I signed their pledge to pay $10-$20/year for the service, but there are nowhere near enough pledges so far. I regularly use both Safari and Firefox on both Mac and PC platforms (and sometimes Linux), and Xmarks has been invaluable to me. I guess if the paid subscription pledge doesn't work I will have to go back to using only Safari, but that is very limiting and I have never thought that Safari was good enough to work as my only browser. I do have MobileMe so if I went back to Safari only I would be set for synchronizing.
 
PaperQueen said:
What pledge? Where? My guess is if more people knew about that, the chances of hitting whatever goal they have might increase. Please share the link...?
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I got the message page when I tried to log onto xmarks this morning and can't find the same page, but here is another one that taalks about the pledge. You can also just do a google search for "xmarks pledge",

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1886
 
It is as shame to see Xmarks go. They were pretty useful for me the last couple of years. Nowadays I use MobileMe for syncing my bookmarks. When I had a PC I used Xmarks a lot.
Chrome has also its own bookmark sync, Firefox 4 is getting one, Opera has one and IE 9 is the only one that doesn't have one (as far as I know), so I guess it didnt't make enough sense from a business perspective to continue Xmarks. Of course Xmarks provided bookmark sync across many browsers and I can see that people will certainly miss it. Too bad they couldn't find a viable business model.
 
I signed the pledge, too. Unfortunately, I only found out about XMarks because they were shutting down...I could've used this program for years as I love Firefox on my Macs, but want my iPhone/iPad to be kept up to date on bookmarks, too.
 
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