Comments on: Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 May 2005 15:02:35 +0000

This post shows how to copy your bookmarks from Del.icio.us to Furl.

By: John Raezer

John Raezer — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:48:06 +0000

Given all your experience in using these bookmark management tools I was hoping you might be able to provide some feedback on a project I am leading that just launched, http://www.philoi.com . Philoi is a person-to-person link sharing community. Cheers, John

p.s. I personally like Furl and haven’t found too much use for delicious yet.

By: Paul Lewis

Paul Lewis — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:24:25 +0000

Friends and associates have thanked me many times for exposing them to FURL — and I then direct them to CONTENTIOUS. FURL has helped me clean up all the yellow stickies with good URLs from my office… I can’t thank you enough, Amy. Now, I wanna try del.icio.us (not the least ’cause I own restaurants!).

Best,

Paul

By: Bruce Fulton

Bruce Fulton — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:33:22 +0000

You may be interested in taking a look at how I used the rss capabilities of furl on a recent project to create a resources list (aka pathfinder or webliography). Once the code is set on the page, all I need do to add new entries dynamically, without having to go back and edit the page, is create the entry in furl. The pages are automatically generated from the furl archive, and any rss subscribers to the resource list are updated with the new information. See http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bfulton/rss/

By: Hashim

Hashim — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:43:35 +0000

“In a perfect world, Furl and del.icio.us would combine”

Um, Spurl let’s you associate your account to del.icio.us so you don’t miss a beat. Also, all of the things you use Furl for, Spurl does. Plus it has better search, with their engine, Zniff.

I highly recommend you try Spurl, since you’re using both del.icio.us and Furl.

By: Sven De Haeck

Sven De Haeck — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:02:43 +0000

Furl versus del.icio.us = a very helpful. I only use Furl for the moment as I’m not into sharing yet. First, I want to sort out my own mess - apparently it is a lot easier to Furl fast than to actually read all that Furled stuff… To avoid a Furl-cabinet full of forgotten unread pages, I’m now feeding it into my Bloglines account. This way, it’s easier for me to stay ‘in touch’ with ‘my personal web’.

By: think again, ideas that move people

think again, ideas that move people — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:13:26 +0000

One Del.icio.us Ideascape
A week or so ago, I was exploring del.icio.us to learn what was new in the blogosphere. I usually start with my own tags (bookmarking, folksonomy, taxonomy, content management, knowledge management, idea management, enterprise blogging, innovation, etc

By: John Remmers

John Remmers — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:42:55 +0000

Regarding comment #7: Try http://del.icio.us/popular/ and http://del.icio.us/popular/TAG for most popular links and most popular links with a given tag, respectively.

By: david martland

david martland — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:16:00 +0000

I’ve not tried these two together, but I do often use Spurl (spurl.net), and there are other tools of a similar nature - CiteULike (citulike.org), and Connotea (connotea.org) - this has a more serious database. See http://www.irox.de/roxomatic/687/social-bookmarks-review-reloaded for details of several different systems. Note the chart rerenced - the socialbookmarks.pdf file.

I noticed also that there are tools which allow bookmarking in more than one of these social networking systems. One example is http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/marklet_maker.php

Dave

By: fastfinge

fastfinge — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:28:44 +0000

Congrats! You’re most popular today on furl; I think you’ve done that before with another article if memory serves me correctly. As for del.icio.us, I’ve used it, and I loathe it. Oh, man. How to start? No place for comments. No full text search. No topics (I am just a directory style person, and I like these better than tags for some things). No recommended links. No (last I checked) most popular links. When searching through a set of tags, you will see the same link again and again and again and again if it’s been delicioused by many people. The tag list on the side is too long and in the way; I tend to tag a link with every single word that comes to mind and varients of that word, meaning that I often have tags with just one website. No keeping track of how many times you’ve seen something (furl will). The delicious bookmark tends not to work at random times. It’s harder to subscribe to others feeds in delicious. No easy way of sharing links with friends who don’t also use delicious (you can’t email the links to them, they have to open the delicious website and go look up the links). Delicious spam is starting to be a problem…oh, man…did I say that? Uh, moving right along. Furl has won my heart; I’m not willing to put up with a limited and unacceptable feature set, even to make life easier for whoever is browsing my collection of links.