Grab the nearest box of tissues and get ready to mourn: Another online service is biting the dust.
Xmarks, a cross-platform browser synchronization service, will close its virtual doors early next year, the company has announced. In a blog posted this week, Xmarks co-founder Todd Agulnick said the Xmarks setup proved to be ineffective at bringing in the dough -- and the company saw no choice but to throw in the towel.
"For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service," Agulnick explains. "With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses."
Xmarks will shut down its servers on January 10, 2011. For those of us who have come to rely on its services -- myself included -- it's disappointing to see it go. But before you shed too many tears, read on: There are still decent ways to keep your browser data synced in a post-Xmarks world.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206479/
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Xmarks, a cross-platform browser synchronization service, will close its virtual doors early next year, the company has announced. In a blog posted this week, Xmarks co-founder Todd Agulnick said the Xmarks setup proved to be ineffective at bringing in the dough -- and the company saw no choice but to throw in the towel.
"For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service," Agulnick explains. "With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses."
Xmarks will shut down its servers on January 10, 2011. For those of us who have come to rely on its services -- myself included -- it's disappointing to see it go. But before you shed too many tears, read on: There are still decent ways to keep your browser data synced in a post-Xmarks world.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206479/
