[alexpopescu]

> 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.

[ccozan]

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

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

[strivesc]

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.

[shock]

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

[RexRollman]

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

[mjs]

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

[jarek]

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.

[kmfrk]

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.

[jfb]

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.

[kmfrk]

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.

[kijin]

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.