At least it seems to have survived thanks to a new buyer. Details are non-existent right now, as with the Bloglines news, but it will be interesting to see what the new owners have in store for Xmarks users.
Personally, I’ve rather been enjoying Firefox Sync, so I’m going to hold off on switching back to Xmarks until I see more details, but I will be keeping an eye out for any announcements.
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I’ve seen numerous people talk about using FriendFeed of late, a few who even talked about using it instead of an RSS aggregator because you can put everything you’re doing online in one feed and give it to people who really want to know what you’re doing that much. Tonight, I took a quick look…
There’s been a world of attention paid to the Mailbox app for iPhone and Gmail since it was announced. In fact, the wait list for access to the app is quite impressive. Recently, after nearly forgetting that I had even signed up for it, my turn finally came around and I was able to hook…
Between last week’s news that Google might be putting in a feature to block flash ads from automatically playing, and this week’s news that Apple is including ad-blocking as part of the Safari browser for mobile, am I the only one who wonders how the ad-supported web economy will survive? Follow these topics: Blogging, Tech
It’s 2008, yet I’m constantly surprised how much some organizations don’t think about how much we’re all connected to each other, and to information. Seriously, if you feel like it’s important that someone receive news from your organization directly, in a personal phone call, don’t issue a press release, post it on your website, and…
“It’s worth noting, as Fusion editor Ethan Chiel did in the aforementioned episode of Press Play, that the practice of storing information in “the cloud” is a nebulous one. “The ‘cloud’ is just someone else’s hard drive,” he said, emphasizing that information and content we think of as “safe” simply because it’s located on a…
I was looking at the Statcounter website earlier and watch my browser page refresh to show me an advertisement. That’s annoying behavior, but one that, unfortunately, is becoming more and more common on the web when I’m not running an Ad-blocker. What was much more than just annoying, however was what the “advertisement” actually was….
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