FURL.net Thought this site might be useful!

[antsawol]

10 COOL WAYS TO USE FURL

This is just a quick list of ideas.

Periodical or blog support: Links die. That’s just the way the Web works. Online publications include a lot of links, and print periodicals list more and more URLs (for stories and advertisers). Creating a Furl archive to support your publication can help preserve the value of older links.
Discussion group support: Some online dicussions mention a lot of links – articles to check out, recommended sites or services, etc. Hunting through archives of postings can be exceptionally tedious, and often fruitless. If you designate a “furler” for your discussion group (someone who creates a Furl item for every link referenced in the discussion), finding those valuable nuggets can be much easier later on.
E-learning reference: The e-learning experience often yields references to online resources and examples that come from both the instructor (or course creator) and the students. Why not save and organize all that valuable material in a Furl archive, where topics relate to specific sections of specific lessons?
Editorial planning support: Journalists and other writers who produce stories for publications get their ideas from somewhere – often from items they find online. Typically, writers gather their ideas in preparation for a story meeting for each issue, and then sit down in a room or conference call, pitch them, and get assignments. Often in this process a lot of stories get e-mailed, faxed, or printed and passed around the group. That part of the process might be handled more effectively through a Furl archive.
Project collaboration or committee support: Similar to the editorial meeting described above, in the planning phase of many kinds of projects collaborators or committee members seek new ideas, useful resources, and relevant examples. A Furl archive can be a good way to collect, organize, comment on, and share such material.
Rudimentary blogging: Many blogs are little more than link filters. That is, the authors mainly link to relevant items, perhaps with a short comment, rather than write article-style entries. If that’s all you want to do with your blog, why not just create and syndicate a Furl archive instead?
Research support: Journalists, scholars, and others who conduct project-focused on ongoing research can use Furl to support their work. For instance, this is what my “drinking water” folders in my Furl archive are for.
Telling friends about cool news stories: We all do it – see a cool story in the news, copy the text, and e-mail it out to a bunch of your friends. Probably some of your friends are sick of getting those e-mails. Why not offer them a webfeed instead, that they can check out at their leisure in a more organized fashion?
Online bibliography: Many white papers, research reports, theses, and other documents contain bibliographies or footnotes that feature Web citations. Again, links can die – but you don’t want your audience to lose access to the source material. Creating a Furl archive for each such publication can help preserve your source materials for future reference.
Clips file: Many writers, designers, and others have samples of their work online, and they periodically want to show examples of their work ("clips") to colleagues or prospective clients/employers. Organizing all this stuff in a Furl archive is a more reliable and convenient way to store and distribute such materials than keeping a filing cabinet stuffed with paper and making lots of photocopies.

[BearCat]

WTF...uhmmm...uh...I just usually use Google LOL

Heres the rest of the page...I just "googled"... "furl" And I thought you typed that all by yourself.
http://contentious.com/archives/2004/06 ... -with-furl

BC

[MrBill]

WTF...uhmmm...uh...I just usually use Google LOL

Heres the rest of the page...I just "googled"... "furl" And I thought you typed that by yourself
http://contentious.com/archives/2004/06 ... -with-furl

BC

You read all that I just took a quick skim and went on to some different
Google or dogpile

[Thrasher]

i'm tryin to figure this post out and the purpose?

[BearCat]

You read all that I just took a quick skim and went on to some different
Google or dogpile

LOL actually I got to the second paragragh and thought..wtf, google furl and see what this shit is about?

BC

[Ken]

It's cool that you can save webpages.....


but I'm trying really hard, to figure out why I would.

[MrBill]

Because you can...LOL

[antsawol]

wow, i never said I typed it, i just cut and paisted it, I thought it was a cool tool to have. Haven't you ever done a search, but never bookmarked the important sites, if you search www.Furl.net it gives you the places that you were previously at. hey , it's alll good. Also if the webpage no longer exists, furl.net lets you see the info that was on that page. That in an of itself is amazing.

[BearCat]

Ants..I usually just throw a couple key words into a couple search engines when I need to look for info...Always more than enough comes back. Maybe some people would have a use for it just not me is all.

After a couple yrs I'm kinda looking forward to a good HD crash. LOL my fav. list gets so long and mixed up I forget whats there to begin with. I keep everything I need backed up and a reinstall fixes any issues LOLOL. No real need to keep any more anywhere else.

BC.

[oldtrucks]

That's the beauty of the internet, finding new stuff. Nothing quite like googling something...... then finding myself on some strange website asking myself what it was I was looking for in the first place.

[antsawol]

I like the, "Oh that's where I left that." feeling.