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Pinboard.in as alternative to Delicious.com
I’ve recently started using the bookmarking service “Pinboard” more actively as an alternative to Delicious. It seems as if Yahoo! really doesn’t care about Delicious all that much, and I want to be more in control of my data. Therefore I signed up for Pinboard and the developer keeps adding amazing features I’d wish others would take note of.
First off, it’ll cost you money (MONEY!) to sign up. I don’t remember how much I paid, but currently the price is $6.13 (the price is calculated as number of users * $0.001). This is to discourage spammers and support the costs of running the site, which are both valid arguments for such a nice service.
Another impressive feature set is the ability to auto-add shared items from Google Reader (mine), Twitter favorites (mine), Delicious bookmarks (mine) as well as toread items from Instapaper (mine as RSS). Essentially it saves stuff I mark as great from around the web. Very clever.
The last feature I want to highlight is two bookmarklets that was added yesterday: oldest and random. You can set Pinboard to tag some of your imported bookmarks with “toread” and when clicking either oldest or random, you’re taken to the oldest bookmark you need to read, or a random one.
I hope the features that are added in the future are of equal quality, and that the design gets a bit of an overhaul at some point…
— Comments —
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Just signed up (here’s me!). Thanks for the recommendation!
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Sweet, this is really what I have been looking for.
Would be nice to have auto complete when typing tags in Pinboard.
But a lot of great features that I never really thought about. But I actually considered getting in to programming just to add my own “random”-bookmarklet to Delicious.
I am a bit anxious to leave the stability of Delicious to try up a new service. I tried that before with Spurl – http://www.spurl.net/. The service was great until russian spammers took over, and I just barely was able to export my bookmarks.
But i’ll try it out. 6.13 dollars have left my PayPal-account.