September 27th, 2010

Social Bookmarking Startup Xmarks Heads To The Deadpool

According to a company blog post, social bookmarking and search tool Xmarks is shutting down in 90 days.

Following a rebranding from Foxmarks last year, Xmarks, a social bookmarking and search tool, had been growing steadily in users. After the addition of its search feature last March, Xmarks now had 2 million active users and had bookmarked 1 billion URLS. Xmarks is free as a plug-in to users… → Read More

April 7th, 2010

Xmarks Begins Monetizing Bookmarks With Advertising And Analytics Platform SearchBoost

Following a rebranding last year, Xmarks, a social bookmarking and search tool, has been growing steadily in users. Following the addition of its search feature last March, Xmarks now has 4.5 million active users and has bookmarked 1 billion URLS. Xmarks is free as a plug-in to users (and is available on IE8, Firefox, Chrome and Safari) but until now, has not turned on any revenue streams. Today… → Read More

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