bookmarking

Snip.it Is a Bookmarking Site for Sharing Opinions

Liz Gannes in Social on October 27, 2011 at 9:03 am PT

Founder Ramy Adeeb, an Egyptian living in San Francisco, built Snip.it’s bookmarking tool after experiencing his home country’s revolution earlier this year from afar.

Exclusive: Pinterest Closes New $27M Round With Andreessen Horowitz Valuing Start-Up at $200M

Kara Swisher in Commerce on October 7, 2011 at 11:45 am PT

That’ll buy a lot of digital pushpins.

New Delicious Sounds Much Like the Old Delicious, But Newer

Liz Gannes in Social on September 11, 2011 at 8:29 pm PT

YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley are busy revamping Delicious, looking to “mainstream the product” so that many more people will be enticed to bookmark and tag Web sites.

Delicious Red Sea Parted, Users Wander to Other Bookmarking Services

Voices, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 4, 2011 at 8:35 pm PT

We might have assumed that users would flee Delicious after Yahoo announced it was shuttering the popular bookmarking service. What we didn’t know was how fast the lifeboats were filling. Until now.

Password Manager LastPass Acquires Xmarks

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 2:10 am PT

LastPass, a cross-platform password manager and form filler, has acquired the social bookmarking and browser synchronization service Xmarks. The San Francisco-based Xmarks has been in the midst of some tumult of late, as it closed down in September and then quickly opened back up again in an effort to keep its service running for a large group of active users and to find a new home.

Joshua Schachter Goes From Delicious to Tasty

Peter Kafka in Media on November 24, 2010 at 5:11 am PT

Union Square Ventures, which bet on the social start-up pioneer on his first venture, makes another wager.

The Long Goodbye: Xmarks Tried to Sell Twice, Before Closing Down With Class

Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Yesterday marked the end for Xmarks, the Mitch Kapor-backed social bookmarking start-up that was founded in 2006. What was most remarkable to BoomTown was the classiness and honesty of the goodbye, especially in Silicon Valley, which is loath to call a failure just that. Read on.

Liveblogging Google's SF Mobile Event: Voices Actions, Chrome to Phone, No Video-Calling, But Will There Be Donuts?

Kara Swisher in News on August 12, 2010 at 10:05 am PT

BoomTown was sitting front row center–better to scare Google Mobile Product Manager Hugo Barra–at the Silicon Valley search giant’s press event in San Francisco this morning. Google called together a group of reporters to discuss some “cool new features” for its Android operating system. While many have been expectantly waiting for Google to announce a video-calling offering, to match Apple FaceTime service, that was not to be here. Instead, it was a low-key rollout of a few whiz-bang features we can all ooh and ahh at.

Xmarks the Spot? Kapor Says Start-Up Can Find Buried Treasure in Bookmarks for Advertisers.

Kara Swisher in News on April 8, 2010 at 12:19 am PT

Social bookmarking start-up Xmarks, which has been growing its user base and bookmarked Web addresses strongly, launched a new advertising product today called SearchBoost, which it hopes will finally give it a viable business model. Using a tool that displays user ranking and review information from the free syncing service, Xmarks Chairman Mitch Kapor said in an interview with BoomTown that the ad offering essentially “decorates” a paid search ad, thereby boosting click-through rates by 15 percent.

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