Comments on: Furl “absorbed by Diigo”

By: Maart 2009 aan de hand van de tweets « Dee’tjes: over internet, zoeken en bibliotheken

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:19:42 +0000

[...] FURL bestaat eerdaags niet meer en wordt overgenomen door Diigo. Nou was mijn aanvankelijke enthousiasme voor Furl ook al danig bekoeld door het gedoe van de laatste tijd. Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, a delicious killer? (Academic productivity): tijd om er eens serieuzer naar te kijken. Twwwitter (haalt je Twitter account Hyves binnen) heeft er nieuw account bij, waardoor nu de invoer van de tweets als updates in Hyves weer loopt. Maar lange blogteksten verstoppen de invoer van je blogteksten in Hyves wel weer, dus helemaal jofel zit het niet bij Hyves. ‘t is voor die paar contacten, maar eigenlijk zou ik er wel mee willen stoppen. [...]

By: Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:55:23 +0000

Hi Earl,

Thanks for the feedback. I understand from a couple of other colleagues that Diigo has the “store pages” features. My Furl files don’t seem to have been transferred yet so I can’t test it out yet. It has been nearly 24 hours now so I’m beginning to wonder if there is something odd about my collection.

I have Zotera installed here but use it mainly for extracting the metadata from pages, photos, books etc and creating citations for reports. The accuracy and completeness depends on how the pages and web site has been set up but it at least provides the framework. I really ought to investigate it for my local web archive rather than using a separate tool (Scrapbook) for that. I had Scrapbook first so have carried on using it.

By: Earl Mardle

Earl Mardle — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:56:22 +0000

Agreed, Furl was always better than anything else I found and i have used it afirly consistently from the beginning. They seemed to get what mattered about bookmarking.

Incidentally, I have also been using Zotero which works like a local version of Furl, archiving the pages so that you always have the original on your own machine and, like Furl, it exports citations in a number of formats.

Here’s hoping it doesn’t just die and that maybe it invigorates Diigo, of which I had never heard before.

By: Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:46:21 +0000

Thanks for the feedback on Furl and Diigo, Hazel. I’d be interested to hear what you settle on. A couple of scientist friends of mine use Connotea but that’s because they can collect together their citations for papers in various folders and then export them in the appropriate format for their manuscripts. It can be used for any subject area really but I’ve always felt an imposter when I’ve tested it on business applications!

Karen

By: Hazel Edmunds

Hazel Edmunds — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:31:54 +0000

I too am disappointed, but not surprised, at the news. I tried out a number of bookmarking sites for business use and settled on Furl some time ago. I vaguely remember trying Diigo but was, obviously, not impressed. Not tried it recently – why would I? I am, however, going to have a good look round at alternatives since it’s my personal / business reference library that I want to be able to access at whichever of my three places of work I happen to be!