XMARKS LIVES

Just in time for Halloween, popular browser syncing service Xmarks has risen from the grave like a zombie looking for brains.  Citing the power of the people Xmarks has received "numerous" offers to keep its service up and running.  In addition over 35,000 users have pledged to pay between $10 and $20 per year for the use of the service.  Xmarks explains:

The past ten days have been an amazing lesson in the power of community. Not in the “web 2.0 social graph” sense – I’m talking about old school community with users speaking up, speaking out and banding together. Thank you Xmarks users. You told the world it was simply unacceptable for our service to shut down and it worked. Thanks to your passion, Xmarks now has multiple offers from companies ready and willing to take over the service and keep making browser sync better and better!


Power to the people!!! [BGR]

XMARKS BROWSER SYNCING SERVICE CLOSING IN JANUARY

Xmarks, formerly Foxmarks, the popular free browser bookmark syncing service will close down within the next 90 days.  CTO and Co-Founder Todd Agulnick stated:

"With the emergence of competent sync features built in to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, it’s hard to see users paying for a service that they can now get for free. For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs. Without the resources to keep the service going, we must shut it down."


Xmarks was founded in 2006 and started as a free service for Firefox browsers.  It expanded to other browsers in 2009 adopting the current Xmarks name. [BGR]