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Comment on Public Consultation on the Kingsway and Broadway tower by Sean

Sean — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:23:41 +0000

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Comment on XMarks deathwatch cancelled — but will Freemium be enough? by Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:23:31 +0000

I definitely agree with you there, Joe One only has to look at yesterday’s reaction on Twitter to Delicious getting the axe.

Thanks for picking Xmarks up!

Comment on XMarks deathwatch cancelled — but will Freemium be enough? by Joe Siegrist

Joe Siegrist — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:25:50 +0000

Full Disclosure I'm from LastPass -- we bought Xmarks. Xmarks is looking like it's going to be profitable, but even if it's not LastPass is profitable enough already to cover it for the long haul. Part of the reason LastPass immediately acted to save Xmarks is because we didn't want to see a popular cloud based service die -- if cloud based services die everyone loses. The public trust is eroded and people become jaded against doing business, expecting the worst.

Comment on LastPass acquires Xmarks! by Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:07:15 +0000

I definitely wouldn’t give it my Gmail or banking passwords, that’s for sure.

Comment on LastPass acquires Xmarks! by Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:56:20 +0000

I’m not sure I would ever willingly hand over my passwords to a company. Even if I trusted them, security holes exist.

Comment on Catherine needs an office! by Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:36:43 +0000

I’ll be able to get by on “specialty” halogen lights for years, but I fear having to smuggle them across the border myself in a decade or so.

Comment on Catherine needs an office! by Jon Jennings

Jon Jennings — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:18:16 +0000

though I realize the impending ban on incandescent bulbs may make finding this dream office ever more difficult.

I see it now… Catherine with hat pulled down low over her face, skulking in the back of a dark alley whispering to a shady looking fat man “Right, so you got me the 60W like we agreed? 5 of ‘em for $100? Excellent. You haven’t seen me… OK?”

Comment on XMarks deathwatch cancelled — but will Freemium be enough? by Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:18:12 +0000

Like I said, there's definitely options. Delicious and LastPass would've been Plan B, but there still--so far as I know--isn't a good "fire-and-forget" option to get bookmarks from the browsers I use regularly to Safari on the Mac and from there, to my iPhone. (This sounded a lot less nitpicky in my head, honest.) But Delicious? Yeah, that's a good question. It's always rubbed me the wrong way, somehow--and I realize that sounds completely insane. Maybe I'll give it another try.

Comment on XMarks deathwatch cancelled — but will Freemium be enough? by curtismchale

curtismchale — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:11:41 +0000

I’ve never understood why people that need to sync bookmarks between different browsers and even cross platform aren’t using Delicious. I’ve found it to be way better when I need to find an old bookmark the the native bookmarking of any browser.

If it’s the password sync that you want in Xmarks you can use 1Password (with dropbox), KeePass (cross platform with Dropbox) or LastPass in the browser. That’s why I stopped using Xmarks long ago. It was way shorter in features that all of it’s competitors.

Comment on Xmarks Shutdown Update! by Jan Karlsbjerg

Jan Karlsbjerg — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:45:40 +0000

Yeah, hopefully it didn’t come as a surprise to anyone that there’s overhead to a cloud synch service like this. Open Source and gung ho crowd sourcing does not a server farm make.