Furl It

Furl It Social Bookmarking Site


This website is an incredible tool for all who use the web, especially for those involved in research and teaching. Furl It enables a surfer to catalog websites and web pages according to topic, recommendations, headlines, and subscriptions, much like a bookmark on a common browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari. However, the beauty of this tool lies in the fact that a web user can access the cataloged web pages now matter what computer they are using! The implications of this are far reaching. For the teacher or researcher who uses multiple computers, they are able to catalog their favorite websites and access them whether at home, school, or on vacation. Additional features of the site that make it really cool include the ability to share websites and web pages with a friend or group of friends (e.g. 3rd grade teachers throughout the district) and to access pages even when the URL is no longer valid. I was so impressed, I already started using it to catalog websites for math, sailing, and school.