In my previous blogs, I blogged about portaportal, a web based bookmarking utility. After researching other bookmarking sites, I realized that portaportal doesn’t have as many sharing features as some of the other social bookmarking sites. Therefore, I decided to look at another social bookmarking site, Furl.
Furl is a social bookmarking site that allows you to save, share, and explore your favorite web pages. Like Portaportal, when you save a webpage using Furl, it is automatically downloaded and saved to your own personal library. Then you can view the website at any time.
Unlike Portaportal, Furl makes it easy to share all your great websites with your friends. You can email the links or make the URLs public. If you do not want to share, you simply mark that page private and it is for your eyes only! Furl also allows users to explore. Furl provides a most popular list of bookmarked webpages according to the Furl community. You can look at these links and filter them by topic and/or date. Additionally, you can explore latest headlines and hot topics. Other options include finding a member and joining groups.
Furl can be used in an educational setting, just as Portaportal. For more details on how to use Furl in education see my previous blog, Educational uses and Portaportal.
Click here to watch a TeacherTube video about Furl.
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