Social Days » Bookmarks http://socialdays.com Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:39:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Pinboard: The AntiSocial Bookmarking Site http://socialdays.com/2009/07/14/pinboard-the-antisocial-bookmarking-site/ http://socialdays.com/2009/07/14/pinboard-the-antisocial-bookmarking-site/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:52:59 +0000 janequigley http://socialdays.com/?p=231 Yeah TechCrunch featured it, but as usual with anything of value lately, I found this through John Gruber’s Daring Fireball. Pinboard, which calls itself the social bookmarking site for introverts (or the anti-social book marking site) has come out of beta – it’s what Delicious was before Yahoo bought it and put it in developer hell.

Features: (from the website):

  • Easy import and export in del.icio.us format.
  • Fast site with less clutter.
  • Nightly database backups to S3 (welcome, Ma.gnolia users!)
  • Lightweight to read status for things you want to look at later
  • Private bookmarks and private tags
  • Easier bulk editing

The one thing I love? You need to pay to play – and it’s a sliding scale. The earlier you get in, the less you pay (the formula is number of users * $0.001) so join today. Yesterday it jumped from @2.91 to $4.33 and still climbing (although I’m sure there’s a cap coming).  The fee will defray the costs of running the site and also discourage spammers. There’s also a blog and a Google developer group where you can interact with the developer on bugs and requests.

Pinboard is a simple tool that does exactly what it promised without feature bloat or clutter.

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