Furl
http://www.furl.net/ is designed for you to save webpages. Basically, whenever you’ve found yourself saying, “What was that article I read about…?” you can look it up on your Furl page and find it quickly. It offers 5 gigabytes for your personal website archive, and even if the article is taken off the Web, you’ll still have on your Furl page.
Like other social bookmarking sites, Furl lets you share and see what others are reading. You can subscribe to your friends’ picks, or get an RSS feed to keep up with what’s new. The front page shows you the most popular, or most “furled,” articles.
If you glance at Furl’s most popular stories, you’ll see mostly tech and business stuff. There are pages about Linux, Intel chips, computer accessories, reviews of high tech gadgets, the history of computers and other techy stuff. Also, there are links to sites that have tips for marketing your internet business, blogging, investments and travel. These topic areas are the most popular.
To furl a site, you need a bookmarklet on your web browser. This is easy to install and doesn’t require any special software. Furl’s memory allows you to save thousands of pages if you want to. Basically, anything you read that’s even slightly interesting, you can furl and find later on. Plus, your friends or associates can see what you furled.
Furl boasts being a little ahead of other bookmarking sites technologically. It works with basically any browser and has tons of options for searching, which makes it a really good research tool.
Furl is a good place to send links for your internet business. With Furl, you can use Looklistings to direct traffic to your site. Furl has some advertising features which make it a good deal for online businesses.
If you like a site, you can recommend and rate it. Furl has a system where it groups people together by what they recommended. So, you can find a “furlmate” who reads the same kind of content as you do, and check out their favorites. This way, you can hook up with people who have similar tastes.
Furl doesn’t have strict guidelines for posting, and since they offer special features to online businesses, you can pretty much put anything up there. Since there is so much furled content, users can use advanced search options to find just what they’re looking for and filter out the useless stuff. Still, blatant spamming isn’t appreciated.
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