Dan Olsen’s Weblog

Phil Windley recently wrote about Del.icio.us on his weblog and how he is currently using it. One of the ways he is using it is for his CS 462 class which I am currently enrolled in. After reading his entry about Del.icio.us I wanted to see what the difference is between Del.icio.us and Furl.net. On the surface they seem like the same kind of service. However, the thing I found that Del.icio.us has and Furl.net didn’t have is the RSS feeds for each category. RSS is provided by Furl.net but it contains the n most recent pages you have bookmarked where n is the number of recent bookmarks you tell Furl.net to provide in the feed.

I have subscribed to our classes Del.icio.us RSS feed that Dr. Windley has created and it gives me useful resources in my aggregator along with the other news I get.

I am going to give Del.icio.us a try and see how I like it compared to Furl.net. I already know that I like the look of Furl.net better. I am assuming the look of Del.icio.us will evolve over time since it is still in it’s pre-pre-alpha version. In terms of functionality it looks like Del.icio.us might be better than Furl.net.