New Tools: Del.icio.us and Furl

As you can see, I've added some new tools to myFeather Starfish blog.

Just so your favourite entries on my blog will not become lost to you as my daily entries increase, I've added links to two web applications that will help you bookmark / save a specific post and share them with others.

Del.icio.us
This tool allows you to save a post in my blog (or other favourite blogs) to your account at del.icio.us.com. Why not use your "Favourites" button on IE? Because, del.icio.us allows you to add descriptions to your blog bookmark, as well as create appropriate tags for it.

What happens is that users search for entries saved by members in del.icio.us using specific tags. For example, you might want the latest gossip on Tom Cruise, and type that as a search tag. You also might decide that you will like to add the member who saved that entry to your network. This means that you have access to all the blog entries he saves on del.icio.us, his descriptions and tags.

Vice Versa, other users might find your entries based on tags you create with your descriptions. Don't sweat about privacy issues though, as you can choose which entries to want to keep private or open it to the Internet public.

Create an account at del.icio.us now.

Furl
This is a similar web tool to Del.icio.us except that it enables you to email the entire web page instead. It has much of the features as del.icio.us, and allows you to create keywords, descriptions for your entry as well as "subscribe" to saved entries by other members.

Additional features include the ability to rate the entries you save, and installation of the Furl toolbar which allows you to "furl" whatever web page you are on with a single click.

Sign up for a furl account now.

For Bloggers: To let your visitors add the posts they like from your site to either application, simply copy the code below and insert it into your blog template:

Code for Del.icio.us:

<a href="http://del.icio.us/login/?url=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>&title=<$BlogItemTitle$>">Post to Del.icio.us</a>


Code for Furl:

<a href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?t=<$BlogItemTitle$>&u=<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">Furl It</a>


After you've done that, why not furl this entry just so you remember the steps you have to take, or add it to your new del.icio.us account?