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> This is a picture of me in 2009, right around when I started Pinboard. I'm standing on a balcony in Botosani county, Romania, in the poorest county in the European Union.

I had no idea (based on his name) that Maciej started Pinboard in Romania.

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Neither do I. Impressive. Never used Pinboard, but I'll take a look.

PS. And actually Bulgaria is the poorest, Romania does better.

I am not a Pinboard "user" but it is a great way to find stuff to read. The system has a very nice url system. For example:

https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism

Indeed, and it'll be grown increasingly into a platform for subscription-based consumption, when the Pinboard Reader is launched.

You can basically create your own reddit feed of tags, even if you don't intend to use the bookmark feature - which is quite excellent.

As a long time pinboard user, I devoutly hope not. It's a great service for antisocial people like me, and I'd be disappointed were it to develop that "social" layer of oily mucus.

You can already subscribe to tags. It's not social in a sense that you can interact directly with others, but it does have a secret feature of sharing your bookmarks with others by making them public.

I'm a pinboard.in user, but I actually find the URL scheme annoying, at least compared to delicious. I find it much easier to type

http://delicious.com/username/tag

than

http://pinboard.in/u:username/t:tag

The argument has been that by specifying what each URL part is, you can build a link to https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism in the first place. Is delicious.com/minimalism the tag minimalism or the user minimalism? And what is delicious.com/settings? In practice, delicious gets around this by making all-user tags accessible at http://delicious.com/tag/iphone, but then you can't have a user named "tag". Or "tools", or "help", or "about", or "terms", and there's probably more and they might change every now and then.

Bulgaria didn't have as high a standard of living as Romania at the time, 2009, but Botosani county on Romania's Moldovan border was the poorest county in the EU. Whether or not it still is, I do not now.

He is referring to Botosani county being the poorest in EU, not the count_r_y Romania. Fell for it too :)

A Polish immigrant to America starts a one-man business while traveling (staying? working?) in Romania, gives it an Indian TLD, and moves back to America to work on it full-time. And only a short while ago I'd been reading his blog about Argentinian cuisine. 50 years ago, people would have found this mind-boggling. The Internet truly is global.

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