Furl acquired by Looksmart

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LookSmart to Acquire Furl

LookSmart to Acquire Furl 09/23/2004 05:57 PM
"... allocating 5 gigabytes (GB) of storage for each individual member's public archive, enough space to store tens of thousands of archived items."

Looksmart Acquires Furl.net

Looksmart Acquires Furl.net 09/23/2004 03:11 PM
Source: SearchDay - Looksmart has thrown its hat into the 'personal web' ring, with the acquisition of Furl.net, a web page clipping and archiving service....

Looksmart Acquires Furl

Looksmart Acquires Furl 09/23/2004 01:06 PM
Looksmart acquired social link manager Furl. Makes sense for a search engine that prides itself on hand-picked web sites organized into categories to enlist users to do some of the hand-picking. Should be an interesting case of when communities...

LookSmart buys Furl.net

LookSmart buys Furl.net 09/23/2004 12:45 PM
LookSmart has purchased Furl.net, an Internet archiving service, in a bid to keep up with the latest innovations in Web search.

Briefly: LookSmart buys Furl.net

Briefly: LookSmart buys Furl.net 09/23/2004 12:45 PM
roundup Plus: Pentagon expands access to voting site...Ad campaign touts multimedia cards...T-Mobile sells Sidekick II...Spyware bill moves to Senate.

LookSmart Buys Furl -- The Search
Stickiness Battles Are On

LookSmart Buys Furl -- The Search
Stickiness Battles Are On 09/23/2004 03:21 AM
Well, look at that. Just yesterday, we were pointing out how Ask Jeeves was adding features to store and annotate the websites you like and asked if people wouldn't just prefer to use an independent offering like Furl, rather than be tied down to a specific search property. Whoops. Forget we said that. Furl has just announced (no news sites have it yet, but we're including the text of the email after the jump) that they've been acquired by Looksmart, the also-ran paid-search, paid-inclusion search engine provider. So, this is yet another search provider trying to increase stickiness by letting users do more with their search results. They're also offering five gigs of storage. If you hadn't realized it yet, this space is getting more interesting every day.

LookSmart Has Acquired Grub Inc

LookSmart Has Acquired Grub Inc 03/15/2003 07:12 AM
A minor snippet in the LookSmart Annual Report: "...acquired substantially all of the assets of Grub, Inc., a developer of distributed computing software..."

furl 2.1

furl 2.1 06/09/2004 09:16 AM
A utility for displaying the HTTP headers returned by Web servers.

furl 2.0

furl 2.0 05/29/2004 06:16 AM
A utility for displaying the HTTP headers returned by Web servers.

"Furl"

"Furl" 12/28/2004 05:13 PM

Furl

Furl 02/14/2004 09:15 AM
Furl - Your Online Filing Cabinet for Useful Web Pages
http://www.furl.net/index.jsp

Furl is a new web browsing tool that lets you save and organize thousands of useful web pages (you know, the ones you want to save for future reference but then can never find again) in a personal "web page filing cabinet". Once saved, you can effortlessly find any page again later using a powerful full text search tool. With Furl you can forget trying to save and organize dozens of bookmarks, forget saving web pages to your desktop, in fact forget everything except how to find a useful web page again next time you need it. I will be adding this to my eCurrent Awareness 2004 Report.

Furl website

Furl website 09/23/2004 07:50 PM
Furl

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Who owns my data? Furl vs. Gmail

Who owns my data? Furl vs. Gmail 09/23/2004 05:13 AM
I received an email today from Furl founder Mike Giles, announcing that he had sold Furl to Looksmart. John Battelle, ever quick off the mark, posted that when he talked to Mike about it, Mike explained he picked Looksmart because they wouldn't make him move to California, and because they would allow him to keep developing the Furl service in the way he wanted to. I liked Furl, although I haven't used it much since I created a home-grown system for saving and indexing web pages to create my personal version of the Internet Archive (more on that later, if anyone is interested). Furl works well, and I haven't noticed any appreciable downtime. I'm a little uncomfortable with Looksmart, because they are one of the few remaining search companies that mixes paid listings in with their search results. However, the great thing about Furl, for which Mike Giles should be commended, is that since very early on it provided functions to export the pages you had saved, and Mike has constantly improved upon them. I've used the functions several times in the past, and they work. After several unpleasant experiences during the dotcom era, I swore never to use a service that doesn't provide an easy way to get my data back onto my local machine. That's one of the reasons Geodog's gmail account sits unused -- while there are plenty of good hacks, there is no supported method to export your email from Google's servers. I feel safe using Furl, even after Looksmart bought them, knowing that no matter how their policies change, I can get a copy of my data any day I want to. If I wanted to, I could use cron and wget to make a backup daily. Gmail users, what happens to your email if tomorrow Google mistakenly decides you have violated their TOS and shuts down your account? Google may at any time and for any reason terminate the Services, terminate this Agreement, or suspend or terminate your account. In the event of termination, your account will be disabled and you may not be granted access to your account or any files or other content contained in your account although residual copies of information may remain in our system. With Yahoo you can spend $20 a year and buy POP3 access. With Google, you are currently SOL. Think about it. I hope Google and...

Furl: A web page filing cabinet

Furl: A web page filing cabinet 01/26/2004 10:20 AM
Furl is an elegant application that acts as your web filing cabinet. Store, rate and categorize web clippings with the click of a bookmarklet. Once collected, search, share or publish your links via email or RSS. (via Inter-Alia.)

What Is RSS-Blog-Furl High School
Missing?

What Is RSS-Blog-Furl High School
Missing? 03/06/2004 01:48 AM

Morning at RSS-Blog-Furl High School

"English teacher Tom McHale sets down his cup of coffee and boots up the computer at his classroom desk. It’s 6:50 in the morning. After logging in, he opens up his personal page on the school Intrablog. There, he does a quick scan of the New York Times front page headlines and clicks through one of the links to read a story about war reporting that he thinks his student journalists might be interested in. With a quick click, Tom uses the 'Furl it' button on his toolbar, adds a bit of annotation to the form that comes up, and saves it in his Furl journalism folder which archives the page and automatically sends the link and his note to display on his journalism class portal for students to read when they log in. Next, he scans a compiled list of summaries that link to work his students submitted to their Weblogs the night before. With one particularly well done response, he clicks through to the student’s personal site and adds a positive comment to the assignment post. He also 'Furls' that site, putting it in the Best Practices folder which will send it to the class homepage as well for students to read and discuss, and to a separate Weblog page he created to keep track of all of the best examples of student work. It’s 7:00...." [Weblogg-ed News]

Check out the full text of this amazing post by Will Richardson. In it, he pulls together the beginning threads of integrating blogs, RSS, and social bookmarking in an educational setting. It's a great vision, one that I fully believe will eventually happen in one integrated app.

However - and this is a big however - the only time the library shows up in Will's post is when the teacher unsubscribes from the library's feed! There's no mention of a topical feeds from the library, use of library databases to support research or assignments, no collaborative collection of web-based resources managed by the library, or any other daily interaction with the library and its resources. It's actually pretty sad when you think about it, but unfortunately, it will be accurate if librarians don't start understanding, using, and providing information to these types of tools.

"LookSmart"

"LookSmart" 09/24/2004 08:07 PM

Is LookSmart Looking Up?

Is LookSmart Looking Up? 07/30/2004 10:15 AM
The company is trimming its deficits while raising targets.

LookSmart

LookSmart 09/23/2004 07:50 PM
LookSmart (and WiseNut) .. Looksmart search page .. *Look Smart .. LookSmart .. LookSmart .. Work

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mp3.com Acquired by CNet

mp3.com Acquired by CNet 11/14/2003 09:09 AM

CNET acquired MP3.com

CNET acquired MP3.com 11/14/2003 08:05 AM

blo.gs acquired by Yahoo!

blo.gs acquired by Yahoo! 06/17/2005 07:22 PM
Jim Winstead tells the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs. this is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that...

Guangzhou 3G Acquired

Guangzhou 3G Acquired 03/30/2005 09:24 PM
3G Mar 30 2005 11:22PM GMT

MSN To Drop Looksmart

MSN To Drop Looksmart 10/29/2003 01:14 AM

Looksmart CEO Out - Aussie CEO In

Looksmart CEO Out - Aussie CEO In 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
You'd almost swear you could hear Donald Trump in the background saying "You're Fired!".

As Expected LookSmart Gone From MSN

As Expected LookSmart Gone From MSN 01/19/2004 11:48 AM

Looksmart Pulling out of UK

Looksmart Pulling out of UK 12/08/2003 08:03 AM
"... will be closing their UK offices and exiting the UK market..."

Looksmart Looking to Cut Costs

Looksmart Looking to Cut Costs 10/29/2003 01:14 AM
" Australian operations and the fate of its 45 local employees will be under the microscope over the next month as its global chieftains seek a way to survive a body blow dealt to the company by Microsoft."

Ask Jeeves to be acquired for US$1.9
billion

Ask Jeeves to be acquired for US$1.9
billion 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
Once again, who really cares? With the heat coming in from Yahoo, MSN and Google, is Ask Jeeves even an issue any longer? Not for me people. I am am using either Google or Yahoo. Anyway, Ars is reporting that Ask Jeeves has been acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp for almost 2 billion. Are they seeing something here that I am not?…

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3G Network Player Acquired

3G Network Player Acquired 06/29/2004 04:24 AM
3G Jun 29 2004 8:09AM GMT

Public Domain Acquired

Public Domain Acquired 04/09/2004 03:54 PM
Breaking news: "In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . ." (Full story)

myITforum Acquired by TechTarget

myITforum Acquired by TechTarget 04/29/2004 05:53 PM

Marketleap Acquired By DigitalImpact

Marketleap Acquired By DigitalImpact 07/12/2004 03:58 PM
"Digital Impact, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIGI), a leading provider of integrated digital marketing solutions for Global 2000 enterprises, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Marketleap, a San Francisco-based Internet marketing firm specializing in search engine marketing services"

GoToast Acquired by aQuantive Inc.

GoToast Acquired by aQuantive Inc. 12/15/2003 11:42 AM
GoToast - one the largest SEM services providers on the net...

LookSmart Updates Homepage

LookSmart Updates Homepage 02/06/2003 09:28 PM

Looksmart Australia, How Effective is
it?

Looksmart Australia, How Effective is
it? 12/07/2002 08:31 AM
Looklistings in the land down under.

LookSmart to lay off half of staff

LookSmart to lay off half of staff 12/12/2003 04:16 PM
CNET Dec 12 2003 3:54PM ET

Embattled LookSmart to Lay Off Half

Embattled LookSmart to Lay Off Half 12/11/2003 07:16 PM
Further revenue slippage is likely to come as a result of expiring distribution agreements with Google's Sprinks, ending this month, and Yahoo's (Quote, Chart ...

Looksmart UK now re-directs to a new
home

Looksmart UK now re-directs to a new
home 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
UK Net Guide is now the new home for Looksmart UK

Wise Solutions was acquired by Altiris.
So what's new?

Wise Solutions was acquired by Altiris.
So what's new? 09/09/2004 04:13 PM

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