Anti-Social Bookmarking
There are plenty of online bookmark managers out there. Our biggest beef with the current favorite, del.icio.us, is the whole cute “see, our web address is a word” thing. You not only have to know how to spell “delicious”, but you also have to remember where to put the periods. Insanity!
Two good bookmarking sites with shorter, more conventional names are furl.net and spurl.net. See how they both have “url” in the name? Clever, but still short and easy to remember. Not as clever, perhaps, as MyNameIsURL.com, but close (We see that someone has already registered that name. Darn.).
Both Furl and Spurl handle online bookmarks, and have plenty of other features most people probably won’t use. Mostly, these extra features fall under the category of social bookmarking, which doesn’t especially interest us. We just want a nice, modern-looking website that allows us to save our links online, categorize them, and make them private or public. If we wanted social interaction, we’d stop referring to ourselves with plural pronouns, which really annoys people. Especially our wife.
