05.30.06

Social Bookmarking Decisions…Input Requested

Posted in tech at 11:33 pm by mridley

I have been a long time fan and user of the social bookmarking site furl. Unfortunately they seem to have been somewhat forgotten after they were gobbled up by LookSmart. I know a lot of the technorati are in love with del.icio.us and I have an account there too, but I always have preferred the furl interface.

Of course, since I have been out of touch for the past few months, I haven’t been tagging anything on either site. But now that I’m getting back in the swing I’m trying to decide if I want to make more of a go of it with del.icio.us. I’m not really sure what the benefits of switching over would be.

Or perhaps there’s another, perhaps newer, perhaps even better, site that I should be looking at? I’m interested to hear suggestions. Or if you do prefer del.icio.us over furl, why?

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2 Comments »

  1. Otis Gospodnetic said,

    June 2, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    Hello, and let me suggest Simpy. Simpy has been around for a long time, it’s simple to use, has powerful search capabilities, ability to subscribe to and watch other people, filter their links, create groups and collaboratively tag, it has free-text, searchable and taggable notes, and so on. You can try it a demo/demo, although that account is read-only, and is not populated with all the cool things (e.g. it has no Groups, I believe).
    Since you are a Furl user, it may be interesting for you to know that Furl uses some of the same underlying search technology as Simpy (and it happens to be certain open-source technology I work on and have written a book about)
    If you are a Firefox user, there is also a Simpy extension for Firefox, so it’s super easy to get to find or tag your links from Firefox.

    Anyhow, if you have time give Simpy a try. If you don’t like something or have questions, please let me know. There is also a simpy-user mailing list where other Simpy users hang out, if you want to join the community there.

  2. mridley said,

    June 5, 2006 at 4:23 am

    Thanks for the suggestion - will check it out!

    -m

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