See the blog at Xmarks.com http://blog.xmarks.com/ for more details about this campaign.
Pledge “SaveXmarks”
"I will give 10 dollars right away to Xmarks and subscribe to their premium service (i.e. about 10 dollar every year) but only if 1,000 other people will do the same and Xmarks keep their service alive and continue to develop it going forward."
— Thorsten Biegner, Xmarks lover
Deadline to sign up by: 10th January 2011
1,021 people signed up (21 over target)
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On 27th September 2010 Todd Agulnick
Co-Founder and CTO Xmarks, Inc. announced that they will shut down Xmarks because of lack of funding see more details in his blog post.
http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1886
I love Xmarks for its ability to sync across many different browsers and I was hoping soon to be able to view my Firefox Passwords on my iPhone.
I also love to be able to find out fast what other good websites exist in a particular category that is how I found out about ted.com and many other awesome websites :-)
Xmarks is the first plug-in I install on every machine its just a MUST HAVE service.
If 1000 people sign this pledge Xmarks could get 10,000 $ right away and 10,000 $ every year should probably at least keep the service running and if more people join in it could become a profitable business. So if you love Xmarks as much as we do and it's worth some money to you; join the pledge for Xmarks to become some sort of subscription service.
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Is there a place where we can pay for the service right away?
Have faith.
Kind regards, Roeland
The XMarks folks have been giving us all something really valuable for several years now. In my opinion, they deserve to make back a ton of money. As others have also said, just set up a Visa payment screen, let me know, and I'll be there!
Thank you, XMarks
And how about this? Give Dick Parsons a call. The GoDaddy guy. Now, there's a master businessman, if there ever was one. I'd bet he would be interested. What we need is for Mr. Parsons to buy the company, and we need some XMarks Girls on flashy Superbowl commercials. The the XMarks culture and life would really be sweet.
see you soon !
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/i-t...
Mybe Mozilla Corporation can use it
as second option...
I am dying to give my 10$ but how? This is one awesome service that cannot be withdrawn for it is like amputating my limbs.
Regards,
Ashok Srinivasan.
YMarks is the best!!! So other tool can synchronise between different browsers. We NEED YOU!!!
I've seen many synching solutions, and most of them have all kinds of issues. Xmark (and before that Foxmarks) has never let me down; it has worked like a charm.
Walter
I and many others (as illustrated by pledges) would happily pay $10-$20 /year for this indispensible service.
10 bucks seems fine with me. Just let me know HOW TO DO IT!
The beauty of Xmark is obvious as soon as you realize that you can not just depend on using only one browser. Then you will appreciate the use of Xmarks to synch the bookmarks etc across browsers.
At work you are quite often foreced to use IE, due to some corporate decision to depend on MS, but would prefer to use e.g. FF or Chrome.
Therefore, the need for Xmarks is an abosolute neccessity. I hope you all agree, thus there is no equvivanent alternative available. Browsers are just keen on synching between clients and not cross browsers.
A yearly fee of $10 is reasonable to be paid by the current vast subscribe base of Xmark users. Let's gooooo for it!
Read more about it: http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=2007
According to a message on the Xmarks blog, posted on Thursday, we are supposed to hold the amount pledged in order to subscribe to the program when its Premium version will be available.
If I understand it correctly – http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=2007#comments, you should maybe post an update instructing people to do just that until further notice from Xmarks in order to avoid later double payment issues regarding subscriptions.
A big thank you for your great product.
With kind Regards
Sergio Miguel
Hope it helped,
Remi
http://buy.xmarks.com/premium.php
Complete your Xmarks pledge today!
We need your support - only 18% of users who pledged an Xmarks donation have followed through by going Premium!
Oh' what a surprise!
Btw, I'll support Xmarks only if they fix existing problems with Chrome and if they add support for WP7, ... ^^