Comments on: I’ve Stopped Furling

By: Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth?! » Del.icio.us, Furl, and Spurl

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:01:19 +0000

[...] I’ve Stopped Furling [...]

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:00:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experiences with Spurl, Greg… I’ve been there, created an account when I was checking out the different toolbar scripts. I’m giving it a whilr now to connect it to my del.icio.us account.

However, i’ve really been addicted to the sparking AJAXed tagging interface of del.icio.us for suggesting tags and tag completion.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:02:45 +0000

Alan–

The thing I liked about Furl is that it maintains a cached version of each furled/bookmarked page. I find that useful for searching.

However, Furl is pretty weak on the tagging/taxonomy front, especially from the UI perspective.

I’ve since switched to a competing service, Spurl (http://www.spurl.com). Like Furl, Spurl caches and enables searching of archived pages. However, Spurl also has seamless Del.icio.us integration, so when I enter something in Spurl, the link, description, and tags are piped through to Del.icio.us automatically.

I hardly ever access the Spurl interface, UNLESS I need to do a full-text search on the pages I’ve tagged.

In effect, Spurl has become my Del.icio.us entry & full-text search client.

By: EdTech Workshops WebLog » Social Bookmarking

EdTech Workshops WebLog » Social Bookmarking — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:16:04 +0000

[...] More knowledgeable people than me are confused by all this, too. [...]

By: Otis

Otis — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:02:00 +0000

You may want to consider Simpy, as you can easily sync your delicious links with it through Simpy’s Third Party support. Delicious sucks for searching, but Simpy supports full-text searching, boolean queries, phrases, etc.