Ever visited a web page only to find it gone the next day?
Then Furl is for you. I'm often searching on Google Groups for tidbits of .NET information, once I've found something, I need place to copy it so I don't lose it. Sometimes, I have 30 tabs open in Firefox so I don't lose things.
Furl allows you save a page, just by clicking on a button/link in your toolbar. Once saved the page is part of your personal furl archive. It supports categories and full text searching of your archive. Now for the best part. It also acts as a recommendation engine. From the FAQ:
The recommendation system is based on two simple concepts: ratings and neighbors.
Whenever you furl something and give it a rating of 3 or better, you have given it a POSITIVE rating. Give it a 1 or 2, and you've given a NEGATIVE rating. Clicking on a red X on your recommendation page also counts as a NEGATIVE rating.
Your neighbors are computed as follows: Whenever you and another user agree on an item (you both give it a POSITIVE rating, or both give it a NEGATIVE rating), then you are that much closer as neighbors. Whenever you disagree, you move that much farther apart. Items that only one of you has rated are not considered.
Whenever you visit the recommendations page, the system computes your neighborhood - a small subset of users in the system that represent your closest neighbors (your neighborhood is listed at the right-hand side of the recommendations page as "Furlmates"). Then, your neighbors vote for the items they have rated, both positive and negative. The votes are weighted for each neighbor (so your closest neighbors have more weight than others). The votes are tallied up, and the "winners" are listed in descending order as new recommendations.
All in all a useful new toy. Added bonus it works with IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc. Found via Grokking Furl: Storage, Search, and the PersonalWeb
If you need to save every page you ever visit you might also try: Seruku found via ResourceShelf
For possibly the first time ever I've discovered a cool new tool before Mike Gunderloy writes about it. Grin