Review of Furl
April 19th, 2004John Battelle has a review of Furl. First, if you are into search engines and don’t read John Battelle (yes, he has an RSS Feed, then you are doing yourself a disservice.
Second, a few quotes from his post:
“Mike started Furl about a year ago to solve a problem he - and a lot of us - had with bookmarks. Namely, bookmarking is a lame, half-assed, unsearchable, flat, linkrotten approach to recalling that which you’ve seen and care to recall on the web. Now, a lot of folks have made stabs at solving this particular problem, but Mike’s got a lot of very cool features built into his beta, and more on the way.”
“Furl does a good job of helping you manage your web browsing. It adds several features that others don’ t have - full text search on your saved pages, for example. But Furl saves the entire web page you’ve “furled”, not just the URL, which prevents link rot, on the one hand, and creates what I’ll call a “PersonalWeb,” on the other….Now, having your own PersonalWeb is a very cool thing. Every page you care about is now saved forever, and is searchable.”
Take a look at the entire post as it goes into more detail about Furl. For my next article for Public Libraries Magazine, I am writing about the new generation of bookmarking tools that have started up, including the aforementioned Furl, Del.icou.us, Spurl (which used to be called “I like”) and many others. John’s post gave me some great content to work with.