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.
