March 2nd, 2009

X Marks The Spot, Foxmarks To Become Xmarks

Foxmarks, one of the most popular Firefox add-ons for social bookmarks, is re-branding itself as Xmarks and making significant additions to its functionality. Since Foxmarks has collected so many urls (600 million to be exact), the company is creating a search feature that turns up pre-qualified results. Since Foxmarks’ launch, the bookmark synchronization add-on has been downloaded over 14… → Read More

June 25th, 2007

Mitch Kapor's Foxmarks To Leap Into Search World

Mitch Kapor likes to solve problems. In the 80′s, he was the guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for computers. More recently he decided to tackle a a simpler problem – synchronizing Firefox bookmarks across multiple computers. His popular Firefox plugin, Foxmarks, has been downloaded 700,000 times and has 350,000 active users. All those users create some very well organized… → Read More