Comments on: Don’t Tar Me With The Furl Brush: Declaring Independence with Delicious

By: Geo

Geo — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:37:36 +0000

Have you seen the new FURL upgrades? Looks like they are making it more tag-like, less topic-like.

Also, new Google Group (unofficial) for Furl users:

http://groups.google.com/group/furl-users

By: David McDonald

David McDonald — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:38:28 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I have a lot of bookmarks in Furl, but have started using del.icio.us lately, mianly because of the API and the amount of third party tools written for it.

Now that Yahoo have acquired del.icio.us, this should help to increase the support and community around it. Apps/Platforms like del.icio.us are only as good as the communities involved in them.

By: Claire Giordano

Claire Giordano — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:25:42 +0000

Good for you! (I'm a del.icio.us bigot, too.) I'll be watching http://del.icio.us/jamesgovernor to see what you are thlinking... --ClaireG

By: James Governor

James Governor — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:26:10 +0000

one click furl and delicious http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarshallsWebToolBlog?m=190

By: james governor

james governor — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:09:37 +0000

i didnt know about the interop either. said CTO needs to communicate with the market! i agree about tagging completely – thus my thoughts on migration.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:42:00 +0000

In Furl’s defense: having talked to the Looksmart CTO a couple of times in the last few months, I am assured that changes will be made…I’ve been pushing for the tagging functionality to be less horrible. There is a Furl News RSS feed on the front page, and many companies have a hard time sustaining company blogs. I would give Feedburner my first born child (not really) but they have slowed way down in their blogging lately.

Things Furl offers that Del.icio.us doesn’t”
*cache of each page when Furled
* full text search of Furled pages as they currently appear, as they appeared when Furled plus all your metadata.
*highlighted text populates the clipping field automatically
*automated recomendations like: “people who furled this page also furled…”, “given your archive, you should also see these pages…” and “given your archive, you should also see these users…”
*export any combination of archive sections in ALA or MPA citation format
*simple and fast-loading RSS to HTML option (beats FeedDigest on pageload time)
*UI is less intimidating for new users (I think)

So I don’t think it’s as much of a hands-down victory for del.icio.us. Now all of that being said, I can’t really use Furl much right now because the tagging functionality makes me want to stick pins in my eyes and I was not aware that it could be synched with del.icio.us and its huge community of user/developers (I will check out your readers link asap)

By: james governor

james governor — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:20:00 +0000

good point cote – you can subscribe to comments on individual entries, but not comments as a whole.

By: Saurier

Saurier — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:19:13 +0000

You actually can sync them (Furl – also Simpy or Yahoo Web 2.0 – still has some nice complementary features like caching the bookmarked pages and full text search). Take a look here: http://www.socio-kybernetics.net/saurierduval/2005/05/delicious-furl-workflow.html

By: Cote'

Cote' — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:30:17 +0000

How much did Looksmart pay for Furl? Maybe their M&A people just thought it’d be a fun toy to have. I’m always buying stuff (books mostly) I think will be cool/fun and then never using it. I’m sure that same pattern scales up to buying small’ish tech companies.

And, you know, speaking of adopting new technologies, how about a comments feed for your blog here? Or have I just not been clever enough to find it.

(Never mind that I don’t have a comments feed on my weblog. Stupid blogger. Talk about stagnent innovation. As The Whichard was heard to say at Lala’s one evening, “I don’t give a toot about MS-Word integration, give me a comments feed!”)

By: james governor

james governor — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:39:53 +0000

I also meant to link to Stephen's Bye to Bloglines http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001024.html