20th February 2008

Furl - Social Bookmarking Site

posted in Search Engine News |

Furl is a site for saving your favorites/bookmarks online. In other words Furl is a personal web site where you can store bookmarks and archive web pages. You can also learn what web sites others find interesting. Furl gives you 5 gigabytes of web space to store pages. Furl allows you to save anything you view on the web. You can also use it to share what you read on the web with other teachers or with your students. You can use it for many educational purposes :-

  1. Web sites for student research or projects
  2. Books recommendations
  3. Professional research
  4. List of books you would like to read
  5. Placing web links on your school web page
  6. Students can find resources at home and access them at school and vice versa
  7. Share what you are reading on the web or view what your peers are reading on the web
  8. Web site collections by school topic.

Furl is a social bookmarking site that makes it easy to save, share, and explore favorite web pages.

Advantage of using Furl : Following are the reason one can use Furl for :-

  1. Search your bookmarks by keywords and topics.
  2. Save site found using multiple computers (home and school) to one resource.
  3. Access your bookmarks anywhere you have web access.
  4. Share web sites with your students or peers.
  5. Export your web sites into a bibliography for college or as a handout for your class.
  6. Access your bookmarks as your computer crashes or you get a new computer.
  7. Publish your saved web site links by category.
  8. Learn about new sites from your “Furl Mates.”
  9. Subscribe to other users’ Furl who look for similar web sites as you do.
  10. Furl saves a copy of the web page. If it is moved or deleted, you still have access to the pages you bookmarked.

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