Spurl - Social Bookmarking

I've set aside this week to work on my final project for my 21st Century Literacy course at Rutgers. I've narrowed the focus of this assignment to highlight applications for web technology that encourages online collaboration - podcasting, wikis, online word processors, & social bookmarking.

At this moment, I am exploring Spurl - a social bookmarking service that runs through the web rather than through the web browser's toolbar. Taken directly from the Spurl F.A.Q.:

Tell me this once again: What is Spurl.net?

Spurl.net is an advanced bookmark service that allows you to easily keep track of all the information you consume online.

In addition to storing the links and titles as the bookmarks or favorites in your browser do, Spurl.net:

• ...allows you to store a lot of additional information about the page, including a copy of the page as it was when you read it.
• ...enables you to do a Google-style, full-text search of all the pages you've ever spurled.
• ...makes your bookmarks and stored pages accessible from any computer, at home, at work or at school.
• ...allows you to benefit from the efforts of other Spurl.net users by providing you with recommendations, links to related pages and the possibility to search pages that others have spurled as well.
• ...makes it easy to include a list of "Things I've come across" on your blog or web site.
• ...and much, much more.

I am transfering my Local: Music, Cultural, Hangouts, Publications internal link through my Spurl account. These bookmarks will then be embed into my blog through smart use of frames.

Tags: technology, Spurl, social bookmarking, nj, culture, music, arts