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Bookmark syncing service Xmarks is shutting down for good on Jan. 10, 2011, meaning that all syncs will cease, and all backups will be lost. At least the early notice means we have time to look for alternatives, which for Safari users won’t be that easy. Read more »

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If you use multiple Macs then there’s probably been at least one time in your computing life when you’ve wished you could keep your Internet bookmarks synced between them. Other than MobileMe, the best way to do this is using Xmarks. Read more »

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Google is integrating its Bookmarks service with its Chrome web browser. The service will allow users to link their local bookmarks and browser data with the Google cloud, letting bookmarks be automatically backed up and shared with the cloud. The search giant used to offer this […] Read more »

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IdeaShower’s Read It Later, a service that allows you to save interesting web pages to read later either through a Firefox extension or bookmarklets (and is so good that Judi gave it glowing review), now has a really nifty companion iPhone and iPod touch app that […] Read more »

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Going through the day-to-day realities of web crawling I find myself using the Favorites or Bookmarks feature of browsers less and less. Oddly enough, however, this statement is coming from the same guy with thousands of them backed up on multiple drives. Early this week, I […] Read more »

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We’re living in a cross-platform and cross-browser world. Most web workers aren’t one-browser-fits-all. I have two computers: a MacBook Pro and an iMac. Even though Firefox 3 is my default browser on both computers, I regularly have at least three different browsers open to do what […] Read more »

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AntStorm is an interesting new entrant in the online bookmarking space. Though their just-launched public beta has some rough edges, they have an interesting vision, combining several niches into a single web application. First, they’re a bookmark manager, designed to make it easy to use your […] Read more »

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If you have .Mac already, you are no doubt familiar with the .Mac status page which lists services that are available. (Hopefully, you won’t have to be familiar with the page when MobileMe takes over because there won’t be as much downtime.) Just below the status […] Read more »

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If you are switcher with one foot still in the proverbial grave and haven’t entirely let go of your PC, this article is for you. In my profession, I tend to change computers a lot. Thankfully, I get Macs. We gave away our PC to a […] Read more »

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You might be surprised that I’m admitting this, but sometimes, the best way to get your pure, unfiltered message out there is to put out a press release. That’s what video guide startup MeeVee did today, asking all interested acquirers to please send it an email. […] Read more »

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If web site bookmarking is something you do day in and day out, there’s a new bookmarking tool you need to add to your browser – Instapaper (via TechCrunch). The side project of Marco Arment, creator of the very cool micro-blogging service Tumbir, Instapaper is online […] Read more »

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MeeMix, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based social music startup, is joining competitors including MOG, Last.fm and Pandora by offering music-oriented communities centered around your listening habits. I met MeeMix Founder and CEO Gilad Shlang when I visited Tel Aviv earlier this year. Shlang had articulated to me […] Read more »

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AT&T Video Share Launches, in 160 U.S. markets. (release) Make $5.3M Posting Nude Scenes on Web? That’s what Mr. Skin did last year — now studios even send the site advance copies of their movies. (New York Times) The Daily Reel Starts Social Network; ReeledIn wants […] Read more »

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I have a lot of Macs. I have a MacBook Pro that my work gave me, another MacBook Pro that is my personal computer and a 20″ iMac Core 2 Duo that is our family (err, my wife’s) computer. My wife also has a 12″ Powerbook […] Read more »

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360 Networks, one of the big broadband flameouts that retrenched and came back from the dead, has been limping along, hoping for better times. But today it decided that enough is enough, and called it quits when it comes to long haul business. It is going […] Read more »

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For past week or so I have watched with a degree of bemusement, the punishment being doled out to AT&T. Having pretty much lost the UNE-P battle, the company was forced to reduce its revenue and earnings estimates. Now it is being said that Moody’s will […] Read more »