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End of the Road for Xmarks

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201 points willwagner | 3 comments | 27 Sep 10 23:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. LiveTheDream ◴[28 Sep 10 01:11 UTC] No.1734214[source]▶
Todd, will you open-source any code?
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2. Caligula ◴[28 Sep 10 01:33 UTC] No.1734259[source]▶
Opensourcing the corpus would be more interesting but I suppose with their privacy policy this is a no go.
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3. LiveTheDream ◴[28 Sep 10 01:41 UTC] No.1734278[source]▶
100% agree. I had that question included in my first draft of my original comment, but figured anonymizing the bookmark data is a very tricky/impossible task so I removed it. See AOL search data[1]. Maybe Xmarks could sent an opt-in request to users and release the data of people who are comfortable with it. I would be fine with it, personally; all my bookmarks are on delicious anyway.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal