Quocial.com is for sale

by Trevor Burnham on May 3, 2010

Need a domain for your hip new Web 2.0 app? I’ve got one for you.

For Sale on Flippa: Quocial.com

Comes with a bundle of related domains, and the @Quocial handle on Twitter. Happy bidding!

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Closing Time

by Trevor Burnham on April 21, 2010

I launched Quocial back in 2009 with great hopes. But after an initial flurry of interest, the site went quiet. This was mainly for one simple reason: I stopped working on the site. I’d thought when it started that I could live two lives, developing Quocial while being a responsible grad student. I quickly realized that I couldn’t, and chose to focus on academics.

Shortly after that, I realized that I’d made the wrong choice. It’s too late for Quocial now, but things are just beginning for my first post-grad school startup, tentatively known as Theoryville. If you want to keep up with my progress, read my personal blog.

If you’re looking for a social bookmarking site that offers full-text search, you now have two choices: Diigo, or Google Bookmarks. Both have their flaws: Diigo just feels too complicated for my liking; it’s a stark contrast to the single-textbox simplicity of Quocial. Google Bookmarks is actually asocial bookmarking; there’s currently no way to share, but for just keeping track of your own links, it’s fine. A third option, and perhaps the most Quocial-esque in spirit, is Packrati.us, which automatically adds your tweeted links to Delicious. One way that I touted Quocial early on was “Twitter meets Delicious.” The idea of building something on top of Twitter occurred to me, but I wanted to build something a bit more powerful than a 140-char limit would allow.

No matter where your future bookmarking takes you, I’d like to thank everyone who gave the site a whirl (especially those who sent me bug reports), and I wish you best of luck with your future bookmarking endeavors.

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Introducing Quocial

September 9, 2009

“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” —Hofstadter’s Law, from Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Like many programmers, I started writing code because I had an itch to scratch. My particular itch is a universal one: The perfect way of sharing links.
Since the dawn of time, when [...]

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