Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats

krulgar writes "On January 10, 2011, Xmarks will be closing their doors. A free service being replaced by free software. It would still be nice to have a single way to keep my bookmarks from my work machine in sync with my home machines and my mobile devices without exerting much effort. Xmarks seemed to be the only ones with that clear vision, maybe the replacement tools can grow into this space, but it's still a little sad to see a useful tool wave goodbye."

Comments

Re:Overkill?

[Profane MuthaFucka]

think of the opportunities they for data mining.

Someday when I grow up I want to be fucking evil like you.

Re:Foxmarks saved my laptop once

[Zenaku]

It turns out your common thief or buyer of stolen goods isn't really that sophisticated of a master criminal. They weren't after my data, just a normally expensive machine that they could get for free or cheap. For the guy who had my machine all those files filled with my information were just junk that was cluttering up his sweet new computer. He moved all my stuff into the trash can and moved on with his life.

I ended up not losing any of my files (important stuff was backed up, but there were some pictures and things that hadn't yet been) because he never even emptied the trash.

The real irony is that when I got my machine back, I had access to all of HIS personal data. Dude took a lot of pictures with the iSight camera. His girlfriend was pretty hot. Maybe crime does pay. :)