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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