{"id":12613,"date":"2010-09-28T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/xmarks-shuts-down-in-january-2011\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:09:54","slug":"xmarks-shuts-down-in-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xmarks-shuts-down-in-january-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmarks shuts down in January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/xmarks.jpg\" alt=\"Xmarks shuts down on January 2011\" align=\"left\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarks.com\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Luckily Xmarks didn&#8217;t close. LastPass <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/lastpass-acquires-syncing-service-xmarks\">acquired the company<\/a> and this enabled the service to stay online. It also marked a transition point for Xmarks, which moved to a &#8220;freemium&#8221; business mode and started offering paid plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarks.com\">Xmarks<\/a><\/strong>, the great bookmark syncing service <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-sync-bookmarks-across-multiple-web-browsers\/\">we already mentioned<\/a> on this blog (also when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/synchronize-firefox-bookmarks-across-computers\/\">known as Foxmarks<\/a>) is closing. The date for definitive shutdown has been set to January 10th, 2011, giving you plenty of time to recover your information from Xmarks&#8217; servers and find an alternative syncing service.<\/p>\n<p>As for the reasons why Xmarks is being discontinued, they&#8217;re explained <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xmarks.com\/?p=1886\">in the company&#8217;s blog<\/a>. Apparently Xmarks has had budget issues since Spring 2010 and was in desperate need to find new funds. The search for potential buyers wasn&#8217;t successful, and with the bookmark syncing function being built-in in powerful browsers like Firefox and Chrome, it was difficult to come up with an alternative business model. In this situation, there&#8217;s no way to support the free service and, at the same time, paid the company&#8217;s expenses such as salaries and server hosting costs.<\/p>\n<p>Xmarks plans to keep their service running for another three months, which gives you time to find an alternative to sync bookmarks across browsers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmarks.com\/about\/shutdown\">Shutdown page<\/a> on the Xmarks website includes some of them, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/sync\/\">Firefox Sync<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=165139\">Chrome Sync<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.live.com\/windows-live-devices-and-sync-program-settings-ui\">Windows Live Essentials<\/a> (all free) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mobileme\/\">MobileMe<\/a> (for $99\/year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Luckily Xmarks didn&#8217;t close. LastPass acquired the company and this enabled the service to stay online. It also marked a transition point for Xmarks, which moved to a &#8220;freemium&#8221; business mode and started offering paid plans. Xmarks, the great bookmark syncing service we already mentioned on this blog (also when it was known as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/xmarks-shuts-down-in-january-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Xmarks shuts down in January 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334711,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions\/334711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}