Sunday, March 1, 2009

Delicious vs. Furl

To Delicious or Furl ... that is the question!  Both Delicious and Furl appeared to offer similar services in regard to social bookmarking, tagging, descriptions, and ability to install a button onto the browser bar.  The "look" of the Furl page was visually appealing, but I was still more comfortable with Delicious primarily due to often usage.   

Upon further investigation, I found that the Furl site allows users to rate a bookmarked website using a star system.  Another great feature is that Furl saves the cache copy of a website even if a site is taken off the web.  

Despite these nice features, I still prefer Delicious.  I like the way "my bookmarks" is prominently displayed and simple to access, but beyond that, I have developed a comfort level with Delicious that I don't think I would develop with Furl even after repeated usage.  I don't have any data to support this, but my guess is that Delicious is preferred amongst the general population of social bookmarkers.  If that is the case, I would expect Delicious to be a better source to find bookmarked websites.

 

3 comments:

  1. I came up with many of the same observations. I also sometimes wonder, if we just end up preferring the program we tried first...?

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  2. You are right in commenting about Delicious.Simple web design often rules. eg.g google search engine.

    I also agree with MB.Often we tend to stick with the first popular program we signed up with.

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  3. We are all "creatures of habit," aren't we?!

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