Comments on: Furl acquired by Looksmart

Furl acquired by Looksmart

tranquileye — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:48:07 -0800

By: reklaw

reklaw — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 04:59:01 -0800

By: emptybowl

emptybowl — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:44:15 -0800

Something I've never heard of was acquired by something else I've never heard of? Wow. Earth-shattering news worthy of a FPP.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:01:50 -0800

Well, I'm glad it was posted. I hadn't heard of it but it looks like a very cool service. If weblogs like MeFi were the first great organizing principle of the interweb this is the sort of thing that might be the next. I've signed up.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:17:08 -0800

Matt, Matt!! Mattmattmattmattmattmaaaatttttttt!!!!!! The rest of the internet is converging! You'd better hurry with that sidebar!!

By: shoepal

shoepal — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:34:53 -0800

it's happening again!!!

By: JollyWanker

JollyWanker — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:34:51 -0800

I knew what LookSmart was, but had honestly never heard of Furl - it turned out to be an interesting tool. Thanks for the link.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:37:20 -0800

LookSmart was downsizing earlier this year and last after losing Micro$oft partner funding +. Where'd the cash come from? Also, amongst the fine products: Net Nanny. D-lightful. The filtered internet is dead. Long live the filtered internet.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:51:48 -0800

Furl has been linked on MeFi before as an FPP, which is how I heard of it. I went there and tested it out and then promptly forgot about it (who needs it when there's del.icio.us?). I got an email about the LookSmart thing last night and promptly went to furl to remove my address from their database. Unfortunately, that task seems impossible.

By: cell divide

cell divide — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:18:28 -0800

I knew some people who invested their Netscape millions into a competitor of Furl, back during the e-gold rush... for some reason, people thought you could make money from this sort of thing, basically a glorified book mark. But who knows.

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:50:31 -0800

Why would one ever use furl when you could use the far superior service it ripped off, del.icio.us?

By: dmd

dmd — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:20:51 -0800

Because Furl lets you save and search the contents of pages -- even pages within your intranet or other password-protected sites.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:03:27 -0800

which is actually really useful and it's too bad i didn;t find out about it earlier. really useful for news sites that don't keep their entire archives online. i just hope looksmart doesn't mess it up , now.

By: tranquileye

tranquileye — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:56:29 -0800

Congrats to emptybowl; he has been added to my list of MiFi Post Nazis, along with Smart Dalek.