Xmarks shutting down in Jan

http://blog.xmarks.com/

by bunglebooz • 16 years ago

7 2 16 years ago

blog.xmarks.com

This is absolutely driving me nuts.. they have 2 million users, steady growth, and not only can they not figure out how to make any money- they have never, in the history of the company, tried _anything_ that would bring money in the door.

In five minutes I can think of a dozen awful ways that would bring some cash flowing in. They aren't even going to try? Anything?

Even if they just said, "OK, xmarks is now $50 / month", and half of their userbase tells them to fuck off, that's still... 50 million a month in income. Even if 90% of their userbase tells them to fuck off, that's uh.. 10 million in the door?

Show ads? A donation widget? How can you be so brainwashed by the VC model that you don't even try to do anything?!

kennethh• 16 years ago

No ads on the homepage, but I see there are on the subpages. Almost 19000 backlinks and pagerank 7. Should be possible to make some money on this.

Xmarks shutting down in Jan

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