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Pinboard brings back the glory days of bookmarking, for a fee


Pinboard is a simple, functional bookmarking site, reminiscent of Delicious in its pre-Yahoo! prime, but it comes with a small catch. To join Pinboard, there's a one-time fee based on the number of users who have signed up so far. The fee is $0.001 times the number of users already signed up. As of a moment ago, it's a little over $4.50 to get an account. Instead of "social bookmarking," pinboard is "antisocial bookmarking," designed not too get too big and too diluted with spam as quickly as Delicious did.

You get some pretty good features in exchange for your fee. Pinboard includes a separate, lightweight "to read" option, for stuff you want to come back to, but don't want to share or put in your main list. You can import or export Delicious bookmarks, and, as Pinboard's developer notes in a little dig at Ma.gnolia, there are nightly backups, so the risk of data loss is minimal. If a better, more streamlined Delicious is your cup of tea, you should join Pinboard now, before it gets too expensive.

Any thoughts on the price at which new memberships start to level off?

Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Text, Utilities, Blogging, Freeware, Social Software

Badges, I need some stinking badges

Badged.netGet badged, by going to badged.net, where you can simply build a custom badge widget for your site or blog. The list of available badges you can include in your custom widget is pretty good:
  • Digg This Story
  • Sphere It
  • Add to Technorati Favorites
  • View Blog Reactions (via Technorati)
  • Add to del.icio.us
  • Add to Furl
  • Add to Netscape
  • Add to Yahoo! Myweb
  • Add to Google Bookmarks
  • Add to Newsvine
  • Add to Blinklist
  • Add to Reddit
  • Add to Blogmarks
  • Add to Magnolia
  • Add to Windows Live
  • Add to Tailrank
  • Add to Favorites (Internet Explorer)
  • Email This
You type in your site URL and name, check the boxes, and get the code at the bottom of the page. It could not be any easier to do and you can insert the whole thing at the bottom of your posts, your site, whatever. Sweet, slick, and fan-tas-tic. Here is what the actual badge I created looks like:

[Via The Global Geek Podcast]

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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