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Furl

nospam@example.com (Nik Webber) — 2007-09-10T00:20:46Z

Furl is a free service that saves the important items you find on the Web and enables you to quickly find them again. Furl archives a personal copy of every page you save. When you want to recall it, you can find it instantly by searching the full text your archived items. Each member has a personal archive of 5 gigabytes (GB), large enough to store tens of thousands of searchable items.

Furl recommends new Web pages that may interest you, guided by the sites you've already "Furled," or saved.

Furl also offers the best ways to share the content you find on the Web. Send a daily email newsletter of links to friends and colleagues, use Furl to generate RSS feeds for your links, or integrate them quickly and easily into an existing Web site.

Once you see an interesting web site, how do you ever find it again? Do you save it to your local hard drive? Do you bookmark it or add it to your favorites list? Finding an old site can be very difficult. It might not stand out in the thousands of results from the largest search engines. It might not stand out in a long list of bookmarks or favorites. And if you are using a different machine or a different browser, it may be completely inaccessible to you. The more you use the web, the more this is a problem for you. Everyone suffers with this.

Furl.net is a web site that solves this compelling personal information management problem for you. By bookmarking any site you find of interest on Furl, you can easily annotate, find it later, refer to it, and share it with others. All on a system with practically unlimited storage, accessible to you from anywhere on the web, at no cost to you.

Furl provides so many features it can be hard to take it all in. There are many other "social bookmarking" web sites out there, also - how can you compare them to find the right one for you? What follows is a list of Furl's features to help you see the big picture of all the things you can do with Furl. We believe you'll find that Furl solves your problems easily and simply, and that you'll love using it as much as we do.

Netvouz.com

nospam@example.com (Nik Webber) — 2007-09-10T00:16:01Z

Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it's FREE!

Bloglines is a window to a whole new world of dynamic content that is being created and distributed over the new "live" web. You can make your own personalized news page tailored to your unique interests from our index of tens of millions of live internet content feeds, including articles, blogs, images and audio. And it's FREE!

Bloglines shields you from the confusion of news feed standards -- RSS, Atom, and others. Bloglines allows you to search for, read and share any updates from your favorite news feed or blog regardless of its authoring technology. And it's FREE!

Last, but not least, Bloglines provides you with the tools you need to begin creating your own clip blogs and blogrolls. Become a publisher, share your thoughts and opinions! And it's FREE! Get started today!.

Bloglines offers the most features for people who like their online news to be fresh. Its the most popular website of its kind, indexing millions of new online articles every day.

Key Features of Bloglines:

All-in-one Blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools
Available in 10 languages
Mobile version optimized for handheld computers and cell phones
Email subscriptions help manage your e-newsletter traffic
Package Tracking (UPS, USPS & FedEx)
Custom weather forecasts
Quick Pick Subscriptions get new users started quickly and easily
Personalized recommendations to find new subscriptions
Bookmarklet for single-click subscriptions to any source
Notifiers for all browser types to remind you when new articles have arrived
Bloglines Saved Searches deliver future articles matching your key words and phrases
Most Popular lists show the days hot topics and which blogs are getting the most noticed
Handy add-on tools for bloggers such as automated blogrolls, subscription buttons

Mister Wong

nospam@example.com (Nik Webber) — 2007-08-30T00:24:00Z

Mister Wong is Europe's largest portal of its kind, with over two million visitors per month. The service was founded by Kai Tietjen in March 2006. Though it started in German, Mister Wong is meanwhile available in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and French. The German version already has over two million linked websites saved by its users.

1. Save your favorite websites

Mister Wong offers you an interesting way to save all of your favorite websites in a personal account, which you have access to online no matter where you are, whether it's at work, home, on your laptop, at university, internet cafés, and even on your cell phone. With the use of tags, you can organize your favorite bookmarks comfortably and individually. You decide whether you you want to make your bookmarks private, so that only you can see them, or public for all to see. From all public bookmarks Mister Wong becomes an ideal peer-to-peer search engine, where you can search for subjects by tags.

2. Search by interest or what's new and popular

With Mister Wong, websites that have been saved by lots of users get higher rankings. This new trend is called social bookmarking, and is an excellent addition to traditional search engines, because exceptionally good search results can be found. Use Mister Wong to find the best websites covering a range of subjects, sorted by "most popular", "brand new" and "hot now". On Mister Wong's homepage, you will also find a list of recommended currently popular websites.

Anyone can participate. It's absolutely free. Registration only takes two minutes. Start bookmarking!

Wong the web :)

Netvouz.com

nospam@example.com (Nik Webber) — 2007-08-05T00:18:00Z

Your own bookmarks page

On Netvouz you get your own bookmarks page (example) which gives you a good overview of your favorite web sites and quick access to them. You organize your bookmarks in folders and tag each bookmark with keywords so you easily can find them. On your bookmarks page you can also search among your own bookmarks as well as other users' public bookmarks.

Public and private bookmarks

Your bookmarks can either be public, allowing your friends and anyone else visiting Netvouz to use them or private, protected by a password. Or both - you can have some bookmarks public and some private.

Hotpicks

The bookmarks you use most often can be marked as "Hotpicks" and are then always displayed on the top of your bookmarks page. Always at hand!

Automatic link checking

Web sites come and go, and they move... Our automatic link checker cares about your links and regularly verifies that all your bookmarks are valid and alerts you in case they are not. And if a web site is moved permanently we automatically update your links to point to the new address.

Easily bookmark new sites

Using the Add2Netvouz button, adding new bookmarks is as easy as clicking a button in your browser whenever you come across a new web page you want to bookmark.

Import and export

Easily import your existing browser bookmarks to Netvouz - and export them back if you want to. We currently support importing bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox (and any other browser using the Netscape bookmarks file format), Opera, del.icio.us, RawSugar, and Kaylon Powermarks 3.5 as well as Netvouz proprietary XML format. Your bookmarks can be exported to HTML format (which can be imported into Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc.) or Netvouz proprietary XML format.

RSS, JavaScript and HTML feeds

All public bookmarks are available as RSS, JavaScript and HTML feeds so you easily can subscribe to them in an RSS viewer, or automatically display them on your blog, if you have one.

Clean user interface

Netvouz has a clean user interface which loads very fast, even over slow connections.

Getting started wizard

After signing up our getting started wizard will get you going in no time!

Slashdot.org

nospam@example.com (Nik Webber) — 2007-07-10T00:03:00Z

In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble "First Post" in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. Then in September of 97

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda changed all that. With the help of Jeff "Hemos" Bates and others, Slashdot has stumbled forward with the simple mission to provide 'News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters'.

Today Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc., but it is still run by many of the same people as it was 'Back in the Day'. Today we serve millions of pages to hundreds of thousands of readers. But the goal is still the same.

You can read more about each of the authors, including contact information, and figure out who to blame for what by reading The Authors Page. But the majority of the work is done by the tons of people who use the Submission Form to send in the stories that we post every day. Thanks go to them for helping make this site the cool place that it is.

If you like this site, feel free to steal some of the various pretty pictures we've got here and post them on your homepage, your moms homepage, or even your employers. You can see the whole collection at The Slashdot.org Supporters Page.

If you're confused about any of this, it might help you to read The Slashdot FAQ to find out all the secret bits of information about how things function and what they mean.

If you are seeking advertising information for Slashdot, or other SourceForge, Inc. sites, you should visit The SourceForge Advertisement Introduction

for all sorts of information on how your ads can be seen by our hundreds of thousands of daily readers.