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Techcrunch has a pretty strong line on Pinboard. The title of their review gives it away. If you want to know a bit more about Pinboard then take a look at Back To Basics: Ditch Delicious, Use Pinboard.
I’m not sure I agree. The value of social bookmarking sites is heavily rooted in the network effect. Otherwise, they’re not really social bookmarking sites, just online bookmarking. In delicious‘s case they still have a big enough crowd for a popular link to really mean something, and enough of a bookmark base to power a really slick suggestion engine.
Right now Pinboard doesn’t have either of those. That’s not to say it’s worth skipping over.
There’s no spammers (yet). It’s not a juicy enough target (yet), presently pagerank 0. The small entry fee is a deterrent to the people who would usually register dozens of accounts to make hundreds of bookmarks to their network of sites.
Delicious’s advantage of its huge user base powering its tag suggestion engine can be harnessed with a little help of greasemonkey. On the same day I registered I cobbled together a quick script that puts delicious tag suggestions into the pinboard bookmark popup. I’m sure eventually delicious will put a stop to it, but in a couple months I expect it to be moot, Pinboard will have the community necessary to power their tag suggestion engine.
Pinboard is simple and elegant but occasionally I’ll still go back to delicious for their popular page. If a resource makes it onto there it’s generally authorative. For my bookmarks I think I’ll stick to Pinboard for now.

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