Furl Disappearing
I've been using
Furl for maintaining
online bookmarks. Furl allows you to maintain your own copy of a webpage
online and to categorize and tag webpages you save through Furl.
Unfortunately, Furl is disappearing. I've been wondering how long Furl would
last, since it didn't show me ads when I visited my Furl archive nor when
I bookmarked sites, so I didn't know how Furl was funding its continued
operations.
Furl is offering one the capability to transfer one's Furl bookmarks
to Diigo, so I signed up for a Diigo account
and requested the transfer of my bookmarks. I've also downloaded my
archived webpages from Furl.
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Furl Meta Tags
Furl allows you to archive webpages
you visit. With Furl you can have all of your bookmarks online and
available from whatever system you happen to be using at the moment
wherever you may be as long as you can access the Internet from that
system. When you bookmark webpages with Furl, Furl archives a copy
of the webpage for you. Unless you mark bookmarks as private, you
can share bookmarks with others, but only you can access the copy
of a webpage that has been archived for you when you bookmarked the
webpage.
When Furl bookmarks a page for you, you can have an area you have
highlighted on the webpage added to a "clipping" field. You can add
your own comments on the webpage to a "comment" field. You can pick
a category or multiple categories for the webpage. You can create
whatever categories you choose. The title for the webpage will also
be stored with the bookmark for the page.
Furl will also look for "author" and "date"
meta tags on the webpage.
If you are creating webpages that others may Furl, you can have Furl
automatically fill its "Author" and "Publication Date" fields by adding
meta tags like the following to your webpages. The date should be in the
form YYYY-MM-DD, i.e. year, month, day form with a leading zero added to
one-digit months or days.
<META NAME="author" content="Jane Doe">
<META NAME="date" content="2006-04-02">
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