I've read a lot lately about Furl.net. It's a free downloadable bookmark that creates a button in your browser that when pushed saves and categorizes any website you are on. Here are the benefits that I see:
- Save your useful websites on an OUTSIDE server that can be accessed from any computer and will be there even if your hard drive crashed
- You can rate, sort, filter and organize your saved websites for easy recal later
- You can search through your saved websites to find the one you're looking for. Your own personal google through stuff you already know to be valuable!
- Furl links to the URL but also saves the website in case the URL goes dead in a few months
- You can receive rss feeds of your friends' new furled links or you can email them yours.
A blog I read called Furl the best thing since Google. He may be right. The ability to store and categorize my Net learning so it can be more easily retrieved will be phenomenally useful for me. I will never bookmark again. I will now be a furler!
I do think the way they promote the "furl it" button is funny. After "google" became a verb, I hope not every new tool and company will try to create their own verbs to add to our sometimes ridiculous "e-language."
