Shutdown of Xmarks

[Evan Leibovitch]

I'm not sold on Xmarks being easily replaced by delicious, especially since
it was able to sync website logins and open tabs  And I don't really care
about making my bookmarks "social".

What is really frustrating is the current state of tools for synchronising
between desktops and mobile. Android phones have wonderful tools for syncing
contacts, mail, even map locations -- but not bookmarks.

What I'm hoping for is for someone to develop a cross-platform sync tool
that uses either

1) Firefox sync (formerly "weave")
2) Google Bookmarks
3) Chrome sync (which uses a special format of Google Docs)

I'm told that all of these have open APIs so that technically someone
technically minded should be able to build an Android app (and plugin for
desktop browsers) that enable the same cross-platform functionalty as
Xmarks,

Or... is there something already out there that does this?

And why has Google created two incompatible bookmark sync systems? They're
usually good about *avoiding* that kind of fragmentation.

- Evan

PS: Diigo looks very interesting, but not as an Xmarks replacement. Thanks
for the pointer,
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