Graeme Thickins of Tech~Surf~blog interviews James Joaquin, CEO of Xmarks, at the DEMO ’09 conference, which was held March 1-3, 2009, in Palm Desert, CA.
The very last presenter interview I did was one I didn't want to miss, so I huffed and puffed and made it to their booth just before closing. Xmarks has a free bookmark sync utility that my friends at DEMO say enables it to offer "an unparalleled recommendation system." As I was hurriedly tweeting while they were on stage, I mistyped the number of bookmarks they manage: I had said 6 million (duh), and in fact it's six hundred million. Almost 10 million people have downloaded the company's Firefox add-on, and they'll soon have add-ons for other browsers as well. I caught up with James Joaquin, who was recruited last year to lead this startup by Mitch Kapor, chairman and founder. And the company christened itself with its new name just prior to DEMO. Listen up…
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