Comments on: Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:58 +0000

Just found out about this service. Nice idea. However, the idea of a non-fixed sign-up fee is ridiculous. If you happen to find out and sign up, your one-time fee will be relatively low (right now it is at $5.44). If you wait to sign up then you will have to pay a bigger fee.

Allow everyone to pay the same one-time fee. Will there be some cut off point to when the one-time fee will be fixed? If there are 1,000,000 users a person would have to pay $1,000 to join based on the current formula.

For now I will stick with delicious. I have not had many problems. I do like the idea of going back to basics.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:51:21 +0000

Use SiteCite.com instead. It just launched. It’s a new delicious with custom URLS.

By: hura

hura — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:20:21 +0000

What can I do with Twitter?

By: Freetracking.org » Get it while it’s cheap: Pinboard’s revenue model

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:08:39 +0000

[...] Pinboard is Maciej Ceglowski’s Delicious competitor. Sort of. It’s a one-man show, a feature-light but fast site for saving bookmarks and seeing what other people are saving, too, if you wish. It’s easy to use, thanks to a collection of functional bookmarklets that do various things (I like the “read later” one). TechCrunch has a glowing review. [...]

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By: Get it while it’s cheap: Pinboard’s revenue model - Programming Blog

Get it while it’s cheap: Pinboard’s revenue model - Programming Blog — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:51:28 +0000

[...] Pinboard is Maciej Ceglowski’s Delicious competitor. Sort of. It’s a one-man show, a feature-light but fast site for saving bookmarks and seeing what other people are saving too, if you wish. It’s easy to use, thanks to a collection of functional bookmarklets that do various things (I like the “read later” one). TechCrunch has a glowing review. [...]

By: Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter « shankarsoma; Nothing is faster

Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter « shankarsoma; Nothing is faster — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:50:58 +0000

[...] on the bookmarking side of things, the trend seems to be towards simple. Mike likes a service called Pinboard, I’ve long been a fan of Instapaper. Both require less effort to use than Delicious, and are [...]

By: Maciej Ceglowski

Maciej Ceglowski — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:27:09 +0000

Search is now turned on site-wide

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Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter, Which Its Founder Hates | Techdare — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:11:43 +0000

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Ly Technology » Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter, Which Its Founder Hates — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:12:01 +0000

By: Marro.ws: An Elegant and Powerful Social Web Clipping Tool – The Next Web

Marro.ws: An Elegant and Powerful Social Web Clipping Tool – The Next Web — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:05:26 +0000

[...] the dozens of other tools in the marketplace, it’s now an extremely difficult nut to crack. Thanks to TechCrunch, there has also been a wee bit of fanfare over an “anti-social” [...]

By: Pinboard vs Delicious: there’s room for both - im addicted

Pinboard vs Delicious: there’s room for both - im addicted — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:58:58 +0000

[...] If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Techcrunch has a pretty strong line on Pinboard. The title of their review gives it away. If you want to know a bit more about Pinboard then take a look at Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard. [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:04:05 +0000

I'd love to get a hold of an API for this to hook up my Delicious app, Pukka. That'd fix the search issue.

By: Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 | Newsfed - Aggregate local and tech stories with related videos and tweets!

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:03 +0000

[...] week I wrote about a snappy new bookmarking tool called Pinboard. The best way to describe it is Delicious before Yahoo mangled that product into an over-featured [...]

By: Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 | GeekStream

Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 | GeekStream — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:00:34 +0000

[...] week I wrote about a snappy new bookmarking tool called Pinboard. The best way to describe it is Delicious before Yahoo mangled that product into an over-featured [...]

By: Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 | Spin Valley Post

Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 | Spin Valley Post — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:30:34 +0000

[...] week I wrote about a snappy new bookmarking tool called Pinboard. The best way to describe it is Delicious before Yahoo mangled that product into an over-featured [...]

By: Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84

Want To Give Pinboard A Try? You’ll Have To Pay $2.84 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:57:32 +0000

[...] week I wrote about a snappy new bookmarking tool called Pinboard. The best way to describe it is Delicious before Yahoo mangled that product into an over-featured [...]

By: Pinboard – A Delicious Alternative? « Thoughts of a [wannabe] librarian

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:36:50 +0000

[...] of managing my favourites than just about any other tool I have tried. When I read an article on TechCrunch suggesting that Delicious should be ditched in favour of a new service called Pinboard, I was [...]

By: Dave Dash

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:04:37 +0000

@joshu – yes, but those people who made stupid engineering decisions left their mess in the hands of the team I was in. Most of them weren’t even there when I had joined.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:24:59 +0000

It’s definitely snappy. But I’m missing something. How do you search your bookmarks?

By: joshua schachter

joshua schachter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:39:38 +0000

I think you were on a different team than I was, or perhaps in a parallel universe.

Vast engineering delays (and vastly stupid engineering decisions) sank the product.

By: Dave Dash

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:37:50 +0000

“There doesn’t seem to be a passionate group of developers loving and caring for the product and making it better over time. ”

This isn’t quite true. The Delicious team worked countless weekends to release Delicious 2.0. After the launch of Delicious, Yahoo had been plagued by layoffs, each having negative effects on the Delicious team including the need to pick up any slack. The Delicious engineering team has continually been committed to their product.

The real issue is Delicious engineers are not calling the shots on their product. I was there, I tried and struggled, but at the end of the day, we were not the decision makers – new features took precedence over reliability/stability even innovation. The people who were very innovative were the people who worked around the clock, nights and weekends – on code and designs which may never see the light of day.

Hopefully as Yahoo gets its act together it will realize that Delicious is a powerful tool and could be very instrumental in its “open” strategy.

By: sd

sd — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:26:26 +0000

Update:

I just received this email after signing up for beta. Interesting in this month’s discussion of “Free”

——

Hello,

You’re receiving this letter because you recently signed up to help beta
test Pinboard.

While we have enough testers for the time being, the site is now also open to
regular users. If you’d like to create an account, please visit the following
URL:

http://pinboard...one.org/signup/

You’ll need to pay a small signup fee (around three dollars) through Amazon to
create the account. This money goes towards the costs of running the site,
and the fee helps to discourage spammers.

As I make more features available, I’ll announce them on the Google group
(http://groups.g...up/pinboard-dev) and the site blog
(http://pinboard.in/blog/).

You can also find me on IRC: irc.freenode.net #pinboard

If you find bugs while using the site, please send me an email and I’ll try
to fix them as quickly as I can.

For things that are not bugs (feature requests, critique, suggestions, questions) please post to the Google group so that everyone can pile on.

Thanks again for joining me on this project, and happy bookmarking!

Maciej Ceglowski

—–

A “why” link on the signup page says:

“The signup fee helps discourage spammers and defrays some of the costs of running the site.

The fee is based on the formula (number of users * $0.0001), so the earlier you join, the less you pay.”

By: Donald Megan

Donald Megan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:25:07 +0000

Hey Rob! It’s about time you jumped in here to plug your service!

Linkatopia has been flying under the bookmark radar for far too long. In addition to setting up an account for Michael (and techcrunch staff?), maybe you could open registration for all techcrunch readers – say with a special sign-up code?

Check out Linktopia. I know Rob’s put a lot of work and thought into the service over the last few years – much in the same way he did with PulpChat.com, a DHTML type chat service, you could embed in your website online, long before Meebo.