Sharing your Furl archive with others

There are also pointers on adding recently added items to your site via javascript. I plan on using the RSS feed and php. My interest is exploring this as a memory store, similar to the idea of a link blog, but this offers explicit categorization and once you link into your Furl archive, you can search the entire contents of the archive since the full text of each page is indexed.

From: LookSmart’s Furl – Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do I share my archive?

Once you start Furling items on a regular basis, there are several ways you can share that information with friends and colleagues:

Give them the URL. The simplest way is to give them the URL to your entries: http://www.furl.net/members/fioritto

Sign them up for a daily email. Another great option is for your friends to subscribe to your archive. If they sign up for a free account and then go to the subscription page, they can get a daily email with all of your top entries. If they don’t have an account, you can also add them to your subscriber list manually from your subscriber page.

Give them an RSS feed. If your friends prefer to get their news through RSS and a news aggregator, you can give them the URL to your RSS feed: http://www.furl.net/members/fioritto/rss.xml. You can customize this feed by adding the “topic” and “count” parameters. The topic parameter is used to specify a topic name, and the count specifies how many items appear in the feed (10 by default). For example: http://www.furl.net/members/fioritto/rss.xml?topic=General&count=5 (this feed will be empty if you don’t have any items in the “General” topic).

Display your entries on your Web site. If you have a Web site or blog, you can display your top entries by adding a single line of code to your page. It can be easily customized in many ways. The Add Furl to My Site section includes all the options and details.

2. Does Furl provide RSS feeds?

You bet! Each user has their own RSS feed (see above). There is also a general RSS feed for all users at http://www.furl.net/members/rss.xml. Both feeds can be filtered by topic by adding “?topic=topicName” at the end of the URL. For example the RSS URL for the Science topic for all members would be http://www.furl.net/members/rss.xml?topic=Science.