Furl
From Newt
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Strengths
- Seems to work as intended, always a bonus.
- Good import / export options.
Weaknesses
- Whilst without major faults I couldn't really find a compelling reason to pick it over any other service on it's merits.
- Only for private use - no commercial / public use allowed.
- Profile public by default.
- Owned by Looksmart, which would appear to be having some current difficulty. (Lost big advertising contract supplying MS with adds, CEO & CFO left, office buildings have been taken over by someone else)
- Not as widely supported out on webpages - e.g. bbc has post to Delicious, Digg, reddit, Facebook, StumbleUpon links on all stories.
- As is service provision.
- Not a great social experience & doesn't seem to have many members. (e.g. http://sixrevisions.com/resources/20_websites_better_web_developer/ is a popular bookmark in furl and delicious in the last week: 2400 have bookmarked on delicious but only 7 in furl and it's their 4th most bookmarked page last week.)
Opportunities
- Possible difficulties at parent company - service could be sold on and developed/supported.
Threats
- Possible difficulties at parent company - could be going under.
- Saturated Market-place now lots of these services difficult to gain momentum.
