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To be "honest", "different" here means "almost identical to historious, diigo, evernote", etc. There already are plenty of players in the space, but delicious has spoilt users enough that they don't want to pay for these services.

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Exactly right. I'm not going to pay for a bookmarking service when I adopted pinboard.in early, before it cost anything, and also have an Evernote account. The market is already quite crowded by very smart people.

Clone delicious and make basic functionality free (tags, search, public bookmarks) and make a paid service that includes all the "nice to haves" like private bookmarks, page caching, bookmark exporting/importing, etc.

Also a noticeable difference from all these sites is that I when I go to delicious.com I immediately see what it does (bookmarks). All these other sites have a landing page to explain how they've made the simple process of saving links online more complicated.

Even though it's a crowded space, there are demographics/verticals that different versions of this kind of tool could appeal to. Small feature differences and simplicity can be a selling point, for example.

Any one know who the team is?

There are some differences though like copyto lets you save selected parts of a page which is kind of the whole purpose behind

Hmm, I thought Evernote lets you do that as well. Regardless, though, competition is always good!

Evernote does pretty much everything thats for sure. 30 million funding should do the trick. Historious is also a nice alternative though, at least they have a stable path only on bookmarking. Anyways competition really makes services better.

Haha yep, you're spot on for evernote...

Whoops, for some reason I put "honest" in quotes, I didn't mean that and I can't edit it now.

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