After quite a run, Xmarks is throwing in the towel. They just were not able to make the service profitable.
I used to use the service myself. I started using FoxMarks way back in late 2006. They changed their name to Xmarks at some point later. It seemed to work pretty well.
It was only later when I switched to other browsers that I found out that Xmarks was not working all that well. I found I had about 6 copies of all the bookmarks in Safari. I could never convince Xmarks that I didn’t want the duplicated bookmarks.
I have been using Google’s Chrome browser lately and Chrome has it’s own syncing service that will sync bookmarks between Chrome browsers on any and all of your computers you tell it to.
I suspect that between all the browser companies doing their own syncing service, they just couldn’t keep users interested in Xmarks.
