As we prepare to roll out Xmarks to our current Foxmarks users, we could really use your help: please upgrade to Xmarks today, try our new discovery features, and send us feedback. Like previous Foxmarks upgrades, this one will work seamlessly with your existing account and with other computers and browsers running any version of Foxmarks.
We’re also hard at work on sync - we’re committed to extending our leadership position in browser synchronization. To that end, we need your help to prioritize the many items on our sync roadmap. Please take a minute and answer this short survey – it’s your chance to have a voice in how we evolve our product. And yes, Safari for Windows is one of the feature candidates – we definitely heard your feedback here! We’re also asking for your feedback on some potential bookmark organization features.
Stay tuned for more details; we have great stuff cooking including versions of Xmarks for Internet Explorer and Safari.
Thanks in advance for taking the sync survey and installing Xmarks!
James Joaquin
President & CEO
sounds great!
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ReplyDeleteI would recommend not saying "let's see what happens" when you're giving a speech. I know that's what what you want to do--to show us what happens--and I know that's what we're going to do next. So it's kind of like sticking a needle in my brain, it doesn't feel right.
ReplyDeleteRather than that, I find it would sound better if you would say "here's what happens", or "this is what happens when...". It's much more natural sounding, and it doesn't pick at my brain as much. It's still unusual for someone to say such things, but at least it sounds more natural when you say them. Not that "let's see what happens" isn't natural, but it sounds like your talking to a bunch of children, which I think it shouldn't anyway--even if you were talking to a bunch of children. In this case, instead of inciting interest you should be satisfying the interest that you have created.
Otherwise, it was a fairly nice presentation (though, the audience didn't really participate... I'm not sure you gave them enough time to think, even if you didn't want a verbal response, when you started on twitter). If I were one in the audience, and I had never heard about Foxmarks, I might be 50/50 about trying Xmarks out. If I had heard about, and used, Foxmarks, I would be more 65 to 70% likely not to try out Xmarks based solely on the information in this presentation--though I'm sure if you handed out some information sheets after the presentation that would increase my chances of going try it out by 10 to 20%(you did do that, right?).
Anyway, that's just my 25 cents. ;)
Meant to say presentation instead of speech, and "more" shouldn't be in the third paragraph (before "65 to 70%"). I'm sure you got the idea, though.
ReplyDeleteI downloaded. Everything working OK. However there was a tracking cookie removed as soon as I upgraded. I use AVG. Why the tracking cookie?
ReplyDeleteNOBU, talk about the product, not the presenter.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like an exciting and helpful product. Will definitely give a try because of the info presented here in the video. I am already an avid fan of Foxmarks.
LARRY, I said nothing bad about the product, and as far as I can tell the presenter, whose _presentation_ I was talking about, was on topic.
ReplyDeleteAs for the product: I am indifferent, for the most part. I think it's a pretty good product, but since there's no other product that I can use to compare it to, I can't be considered objectionable even if I weren't indifferent. What I can say is that it doesn't have too many problems. It works pretty well, and the company behind it is pretty good too (though they can be stubborn, sometimes).
If you would, please try the product BEFORE reviewing it. As it is, you are rating it based on the presentation, which (as far as I am concerned) is worse than what I did. No hard feelings, just my opinion.
BTW-- sync for google chrome would be awesome!!
ReplyDeleteIf you can develop something which syncs all bookmarks across all the browser we have...that would be a success right from the word go..and people all over the world would have enough reason to "bless you" everyday....
ReplyDeleteI think the most important thing to people at the moment is cross browser sync on all platforms. I have a laptop, pc, iphone, machines at uni etc etc. Some are running linux, some mac and some windows. It is getting to the point now where I don't want to be stuck with firefox on everything. I want to login to my windows machine use chrome, head over to a mac boot up safari and use firefox on my linux machine. Browser competition is becoming fierce again with each browser boasting more efficiency, better load speed etc etc. I want to be using the fastest one at the time but bookmark sync is just holding me back and keeping me stuck with firefox. There is no decent cross browser sync and certainly no cross platform sync available at the moment. Grab that corner of the market now before google or delicious or someone does it!
ReplyDeleteWill this work on IE 8?
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteI'm using Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 and I'd really like to install Xmarks on my browser. Unfortunately, I'm unable to do it due to the incompatibility error. Are there any chances to update Xmarks so that I could use it?
@SolidSlash: Personally, I'd wait at least until there is a beta release before trying Foxmarks with Firefox 3.6. Otherwise, if you have to use it, you can turn off compatibility check (extensions.checkCompatibility in about:config) and then install Foxmarks.
ReplyDeleteI would be sure to backup your bookmarks if you decide to do this, since there's no telling whether it will work correctly or not. I wouldn't think there would be any problems, though. I think I remember reading somewhere that they don't make any major changes to extension APIs on minor(?) releases, so it technically "should" work. It's still good practice to keep backups. ;)
@SolidSlash, @Nobu:
ReplyDeleteTo expand on Nobu's comments, we don't typically start testing against new versions of Firefox until they hit a beta milestone, which means that we also typically don't declare ourselves compatible until there is a stable beta to test against.
You're welcome to disable compatibility testing (as Nobu describes above) and let us know what you find. But you should know that by running alpha software you really are living on the bleeding edge. That's part of the fun of using such early versions.
Unless it adds the ability to automatically keep all my Firefox bookmarks constantly sorted alphabetically, I will also pass on this one. That is the only thing I see lacking in Foxmarks.
ReplyDeleteI suggest open the suggested site in a new tab by middle-click
ReplyDeleteAny plans on making an ADD ON for google chrome now that you're X marks and not FOX marks ? :)
ReplyDeleteyour software is very cool, I just instaled it to MAC: fox, safari / PC: fox, IE7 , but I also need it for SAFARI on PC for windows xp, is it posible? are you planing that?
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seems like there are serious privacy issues here. I loved foxmark, never thought about the infringement of privacy, but now I see what the company wants to do. I guess its time to uninstall this again. Too bad.....
ReplyDelete@felxus, Roger: I realize that you may have already, but I think it's important that you read the privacy policy(here: http://wiki.foxmarks.com/wiki/Foxmarks:_Privacy_Policy ) before using any product.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read (and I've posted a similar response before, with more detail, but it may be outdated by now) it doesn't appear that there should be a big privacy problem. You may also want to look at the following link, as it has responses directly from a company representative:
http://getsatisfaction.com/foxmarks/topics/can_i_prevent_xmarks_from_sharing_my_bookmarks?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=widget_foxmarks
And the change log[0] and "history"[1] for the privacy policy, if you're interested:
[0] http://wiki.foxmarks.com/w/index.php?title=Foxmarks:_Privacy_Policy&action=history
[1] http://wiki.foxmarks.com/wiki/Privacy_Policy_Changes
And of course, it would still be nice to have a reply from someone to directly answer Roger's question.
By: Roger on March 28, 2009 at 12:01 am
ReplyDeleteBy: Nobu on March 28, 2009 at 9:16 am
That's odd... o.0
Might be a timezone glitch Nobu, I'm in Afghanistan...
ReplyDeleteI suppose what we could/should be lobbying Xmarks for is a 'privacy mode' in prefs, whereby bookmark info is withheld from their aggregation system. Most people probably wouldn't bother unticking the box, so there would still be a very usable system, but those with particular concerns could rest easy.
ReplyDeleteI'm fairly confident this will have been considered and rejected at some stage in the Xmarks design process, so we'd need a loud voice if they are to reconsider. It's in the interests of Xmarks to have their community behind them...
Any support for this?
Well, this is not what I signed up for. I just wanted a way to sync my bookmarks. I have no interest in beeing part of xmarks statistics, aggregated or not and I am not interested in having other peoples bookmarks suggested to me. This is what I use digg, technorati and a lot of other sites for.
ReplyDeleteTo bad on a previously great product. Uninstalling add-on and deleting all user-data on my account.
Shame you have decided to go this route. I agree with Magnus. I really just wanted a nice bookmark synchroniser. And you were perfect at that. I had to disable all the crap you installed by default into google search.
ReplyDeletePlus your new logo sucks. The old one was simple, honest and friendly. The new one is just weird, ugly and means nothing.
I'm not interested in your enhanced whatever.
ReplyDeleteI don't want you messing with my google searches.
I just want the bookmark sync function, which seems to work well.
I'm disappointed that you're making me take time to fool with a transition to xmarks. I wish you'd left well enough alone. Sigh.