Comments on: Furl: Bookmarks Done Right http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/ Unclarifying the issues since 2000 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:49:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Learning Community Group's Research Network http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Learning Community Group's Research Network Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:38:24 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-376 <strong>Furl News</strong> Latest MentionsThousands of people are using Furl on a daily basis and loving it. You can read about it ... Furl News

Latest MentionsThousands of people are using Furl on a daily basis and loving it. You can read about it …

]]> By: Learning Community Group's Research Network http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Learning Community Group's Research Network Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:36:32 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-375 <strong>Furl News</strong> Latest MentionsThousands of people are using Furl on a daily basis and loving it. You can read about it ... Furl News

Latest MentionsThousands of people are using Furl on a daily basis and loving it. You can read about it …

]]> By: Learning Community Group's Research Network http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Learning Community Group's Research Network Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:35:47 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-374 <strong>Furl News</strong> Latest MentionsThousands of people are using Furl on a daily basis and loving it. You can read about it ... Furl News

Latest MentionsThousands of people are using Furl on a daily basis and loving it. You can read about it …

]]> By: Greg http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Greg Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:04:41 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-373 Anthony -- I haven't upgraded to Firefox 0.9 yet because many extensions break. Some of the critical extensions I use haven't been updated for 0.9 yet. Scott -- As Mike indicated, the real difference with Furl is that it indexes the full text of every page you bookmark. In this sense, it's not a bookmark manager, but a search tool. Mike -- The Furl bookmarklet works fine on Firefox 0.8 on my home WinXP computer, but not on my office WinXP machine (also Firefox 0.8). I suspect there's some Firefox extension or random configuration causing the problem, but I haven't taken the time to rule out the possibilities. Anthony — I haven’t upgraded to Firefox 0.9 yet because many extensions break. Some of the critical extensions I use haven’t been updated for 0.9 yet.
Scott — As Mike indicated, the real difference with Furl is that it indexes the full text of every page you bookmark. In this sense, it’s not a bookmark manager, but a search tool.
Mike — The Furl bookmarklet works fine on Firefox 0.8 on my home WinXP computer, but not on my office WinXP machine (also Firefox 0.8). I suspect there’s some Firefox extension or random configuration causing the problem, but I haven’t taken the time to rule out the possibilities.

]]> By: Mike Giles http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Mike Giles Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:50:25 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-372 A few comments from the folks at Furl. If you are having any Firefox issues, please let us know. We test with Firefox regularly and the latest Furl It button (released last week) eliminated any issues we knew of. As for Scott's comments on groups, that functionality is currently under development and will hopefully be available in a week or so. It will definitely be a welcome addition and the shared research use case is one of the items we are working to support. Also, one big difference between Furl and the pool of web bookmarking tools that came before is your ability to recall items that you saved. When you save something with Furl, you save the whole page (not just the link) and can search across the full text and view your saved copy if the original is gone (or in archives). I don't know about you, but within a few months of saving something I am often hard pressed to remember my comments (or categorization). So the ability to do a quick search and find it again is a big improvement. A few comments from the folks at Furl. If you are having any Firefox issues, please let us know. We test with Firefox regularly and the latest Furl It button (released last week) eliminated any issues we knew of.
As for Scott’s comments on groups, that functionality is currently under development and will hopefully be available in a week or so. It will definitely be a welcome addition and the shared research use case is one of the items we are working to support.
Also, one big difference between Furl and the pool of web bookmarking tools that came before is your ability to recall items that you saved. When you save something with Furl, you save the whole page (not just the link) and can search across the full text and view your saved copy if the original is gone (or in archives). I don’t know about you, but within a few months of saving something I am often hard pressed to remember my comments (or categorization). So the ability to do a quick search and find it again is a big improvement.

]]> By: Scott Leslie http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Scott Leslie Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:01:33 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-371 FURL is cool enough, I guess, but I've been a bit surprised by the hype surrounding it, given that web-based bookmark managers have been around for a while now (cf. <a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Bookmark_Managers/)." rel="nofollow">http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Bookmark_Managers/).</a> I know, I know, it's not *just* a web-based bookmark management system, it's 'social software.' True enough, the RSS feeds and the ability to rank urls across the entire system is new and pretty cool. My personal favourite used to be Backflip, and one feature they had which if FURL would implement would make me even more interested was the ability to let other authorized users contribute to your categories of urls. Suddenly this becomes a really easy shared research tool, or a way for a group of students to pool their reasearch. Cheers, Scott. FURL is cool enough, I guess, but I’ve been a bit surprised by the hype surrounding it, given that web-based bookmark managers have been around for a while now (cf. http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Web_Applications/Bookmark_Managers/). I know, I know, it’s not *just* a web-based bookmark management system, it’s ’social software.’ True enough, the RSS feeds and the ability to rank urls across the entire system is new and pretty cool. My personal favourite used to be Backflip, and one feature they had which if FURL would implement would make me even more interested was the ability to let other authorized users contribute to your categories of urls. Suddenly this becomes a really easy shared research tool, or a way for a group of students to pool their reasearch.
Cheers, Scott.

]]> By: anthony http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2004/06/furl-bookmarks-done-right/comment-page-1/#comment-370 anthony Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:57:46 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=645#comment-370 Have you tried it with 0.9? Have you tried it with 0.9?

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