Former delicious user here too. I use Pinboard [1]. It's not free but has been working great for me for years. Has an API, extensions, bookmarklets, a 'toread' category, public/private bookmarks and really good tagging.
[1]: https://pinboard.in
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A pretty good native client I use (mac only) - http://bananafishsoftware.com/products/spillo/
- Mobile support, Performance, Customizability
So why did I create booky.io? I was looking for a web bookmark manager with good mobile support. I'm a frontend developer and I also have high standards in terms of site performance. Most of the services I tested tried to be the ultimate solution (which is okay, some people are looking for that), but I wanted something simpler. I got a lot of feedback from people looking for something similar, so I created booky.io.
Thanks for your feedback and have a nice day! :)
1. easy icon to bookmark any page
2. TAGGING! i can place multiple tags on each thing.
3. full text search across all bookmarked articles!
ability to "follow" and browse other peoples libraries is nice too.
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I mean, what is the difference between this and umpteen other similar services? A better API, better browser integration, what?
I say this constructively, as a perennial mourner of the original del.icio.us, constantly hoping that one day we'll get a service that:
- integrates seamlessly with browsers (at least FF & Chrome)
- provides a solid API for other people to integrate with niche browsers and system
- provides solid syndication and social-sharing features, again integrated with browsers
- makes me actually get back and read a lot of stuff I casually bookmark and never actually get back to.
- makes it easy to prune old bookmarks, tag them, and manage them in flexible ways
- optionally, provides a "snapshot" feature to make sure I never actually get a broken link if I go back to a very old bookmark.
I don't know of any service that satisfies all these requirements yet (although I'm open to suggestions, of course), so I'd be interested in knowing what booky.io aims for.