25 Aug 2004
URLinfo beta || Fagan Finder
Caught a link to this little tool over on Marc Canter’s blog.
URLInfo is a bookmarkletable service that given a URL can return all sorts of information about it. You can get links statistics from most of the blog ind
exing services (technorati, feedster..etc) from a central location and also single click translation services, validation services and more. Looks like th
ere’s over 90 tools in total.
The ability to query to blog sites is nice but I don’t really have a need for most of the other items. It’s a pretty cool idea nonetheless.
20 Aug 2004
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The web’s usefulness grows each day. More great content is available each week. More transactions are executed as users buy more goods online. Unfortunatel
y the web is also very large and dynamic. How many times have you gone back trying to find an article you read only days before but not finding it? How man
y times have you tried in vain to recall something you read months ago?
Furl is dedicated to making it easy for users to archive, recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. With a couple clicks, Furl will archiv
e any page. You can easily find it by browsing your personal directory of web pages or by using the full text search that only searches pages you’ve archiv
ed. It’s like having your own Google.
Not just limited to archiving pages, Furl also gives you the best ways to share content. Furl makes it easy for your friends to decide which categories of
links they are interested in and receive a daily “newsletter” of links. Furl also generates RSS feeds for your links and makes it simple for you to integra
te this content into an existing website.
I think Furl is great. It has almost entirely replaced my use of traditional browser bookmarks for new content. The built in RSS-feed generation makes it
a piece of cake to share content. Check it out!.
While you’re at it, here’s my global Furl feed.
07 Aug 2004
Finally got around to upgrading my installation of movable type from 2.61 to 3.01.
Everything went nice and smooth. A trivial upgrade process.
Given that I had to re-setup the default templates, I decided it was time to start creating my own css style. Currently it’s a work in progress, but it sh
ouldn’t take much more work to get something suitable.