Pinboard.in
Pinboard is a superb web-based bookmarking service.
Essentially a clone of delicious.com, back when it was lightweight, fast and simple, Pinboard lets you post and tag links quickly and seamlessly, via a bookmarklet, or using one of the many applications that support the delicious.com API.
The few features that developer Maciej Ceglowski has added since Pinboard launched are all firmly focused on making bookmarking a painless process: you can automatically add links that appear in a Twitter stream or Instapaper feed, and the links that you share with Google Reader, and you can ‘bookmark’ plain text notes too.
The killer feature, though, is backup. For $25 a year, Pinboard will store a full copy of every web page you bookmark. Admittedly, you could maintain a local archive of web pages you might need to refer to in future, but—to quote Merlin Mann—’if it’s not automated, it’s not a backup’, and you might be surprised at how many links rot: when I switched on Pinboard’s backup feature, it found 631 dead links out of a total 5,713 bookmarked.
At the time of writing, Pinboard.in charges a one-off sign-up fee of $6.22. That fee increases by 1/10th of a cent with each new user, an interesting ‘feature’/business model that has helped keep the site free of spam, and allowed it to grow slowly and steadily, without the technical hiccups that tend to trouble social services as they expand.
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