Sunday, March 1, 2009

Delicious vs. Furl

It's strange, but I prefer the idea of Furl to the actual execution. I like that you can rank bookmarks and that there are so many different levels of sharing and that you can add so much metadata to a bookmark (the "clippings" feature, in particular, seems neat). In the end, though, simplicity won out with me (and, it seems, with my classmates and the general masses) and I preferred Delicious. As I said, I like the idea of being able to add so much metadata, but in application I like just clicking the button, adding some tags, and saving. Which, of course, you can do with Furl, but it's just so clean and easy with Delicious.

2 comments:

Suchitra Kamath said...

You put it very nicely.Furl has the things which are desirable, but little unfriendly to implment right now.Delicious is simple to use.

msscils598s09 said...

I agree. I enjoy the simplicity of delicious. I actually have not explored furl as much as I should have before comparing it to delicious, so thank you for the details of desirable features.