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After googling around for the whole day, just found out that Furl is actually being around for quite some time now… even before del.icio.us. There’re also several similar services available, such as the promising Spurl.

Here’re some good discussions regarding this topic:

• 博客生活 - Rockallite の 超级无敌流水账 - 最终还是选择 Furl
• Furl to Delicious
• I’ve Stopped Furling
• Furl vs. Spurl

Here’s a summary comparing the three:

Furl

Good for taking web snapshots (personal web file cabinet), with good full text searching capability. Supports full content export.

Bad for information browsing — still in old fashioned file explorer style with no multiple tags (keywords) nor hierarchical categories (topics) support. Re: What’s all the buzz about tags?

del.icio.us

Good for quick bookmarking. Flexible tagging. Good social sharing.

Bad for taking snapshots (doesn’t support) — information could become unavailable after some time.

Spurl

Good for tagging and taking snapshots. Can automatically sync del.icio.us entries for you. Kind of combining the best of the other two. Better way of browsing the collection with a tree styled navigation and a sidebar util for your browser.

Bad for daily usage — connection speed to the server is very slow… avarage round trip time for a ping package was 500ms from where I live. Also, doesn’t support snapshot exports.

So, which one should I use? Functionality wise, I like Spurl more. Unfortunately, right now the connection speed is so bad that I have to give up. I guess I’ll probably have to settle for del.icio.us + Furl for the time being — just as Amy suggested in her Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together.

Time to search for some useful extensions for del.icio.us now.
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