27 Jul 04 Furl (and Spurl) - they beat Google to this cool idea
If you spend a lot of time researching, you will end up making a lot of book marks. Sometimes when you go back to site, you find that the pages have moved or disappeared (in case of a paid site).
There is a new web service called Furl that solves this problem. Go to their home page and sign up for the service. Furl can be downloaded as a toolbar. if you already have yahoo, amazon and google toolbars like me, you may want to implement furl as a “favorite link”. Very easy to do this with the instructions on the site.
You like some web page, just click on the Furl button (or link).
The URL and a snapshot of that page will be stored on Furl’s servers. You can check back your pages by logging on to Furl.net.
Your saved links can be viewed on Furl.net site. You can make these links private or public, so other can lookup what sites interest you. The links can be categorised. Others can subscribe to your RSS feeds. Furl also has this feature where they will tell you who else bookmarked the page that you bookmarked and what other pages did those people bookmark - similar to Amazon’s suggestion engine.
Spurl.net is another site that provides similar features.
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What a cool idea! Thanks for the link (and explanation).
Darn! We just implemented and demoed something VERY similar to this for an assignment for our Masters course… just last Saturday!
i’ve been using this for a while.
http://www.hyperlinkomatic.com