Furl for Fun
| August 19, 2004 @ 6:56 pm | Filed under Internet |
For those of you have not discovered Furl yet, you might want to go check it out. It’s an archiving tool that you can use to keep track of those web sites that have interesting information that you don’t want to lose track of. The Furl website says the following:
The web’s usefulness grows each day. More great content is available each week. More transactions are executed as users buy more goods online. Unfortunately the web is also very large and dynamic. How many times have you gone back trying to find an article you read only days before but not finding it? How many times have you tried in vain to recall something you read months ago?
Furl is dedicated to making it easy for users to archive, recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. With a couple clicks, Furl will archive any page. You can easily find it by browsing your personal directory of web pages or by using the full text search that only searches pages you’ve archived. It’s like having your own Google.
Not just limited to archiving pages, Furl also gives you the best ways to share content. Furl makes it easy for your friends to decide which categories of links they are interested in and receive a daily “newsletter” of links. Furl also generates RSS feeds for your links and makes it simple for you to integrate this content into an existing website.
Given your interests, Furl also helps you find new, useful information. See what others are saving and find new links (and people) of interest every day.
Furl was started in the spring of 2003 by Mike Giles. The company is based in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts and is currently self-funded.
Personally, I like it to check out what sites people find interesting.