{"id":65,"date":"2004-11-09T19:21:54","date_gmt":"2004-11-10T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=65"},"modified":"2004-11-09T19:21:54","modified_gmt":"2004-11-10T02:21:54","slug":"note-to-furl-should-you-be-more-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/note-to-furl-should-you-be-more-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Note To Furl: should you be more del.ici.ous?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have pointed to Furl a couple of times recently<\/a>. i like the online bookmarking service. but i do admit to having a certain del.ici.ous<\/a> envy. <\/p>\n

This post<\/a> from by business partner didn’t help. But i can’t help wondering if some of the apparent momentum in delicious is down to the Udell effect<\/a>. John is a blogosphere supernode and his interest in del.ici.ous is piquing others too.<\/p>\n

So am i envious of the buzz or the service itself? and how come furl seems to be garnering less interest.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out googlefight-ing<\/a> challenges assumptions and points to the idea i may indeed have fallen into a self referential chamber:<\/p>\n

furl vs. del.ici.ous<\/a>: furl has about twice as many google mentions as delicious (could be down to the weird periods in the del.ici.ous though)<\/p>\n

so i got to wondering whether it was that del.ici.ous is just more API oriented – so it is getting picked up more broadly in developers minds, because of its politics of lighweight service calls.<\/p>\n

here googlefight’s results definitely surprised me
\ndel.ici.ous API vs furl API<\/a> 13 results for delicious to 8,260 for furl…<\/p>\n

and as it transpires there is plenty of furl buzz<\/a> in feedland. <\/p>\n

my opinion is shifting as i look around and remember an article called 10 Cool Things To Do With Furl<\/a>, which led me on through technorati<\/a> to More Furl Tricks<\/a><\/p>\n

and then to Travis Swicegood, who helpfully offers a comparison of the two services<\/a> The bottom line according to Travis – “Furl does a lot of the same things as del.icio.us, but it appears they’ve taken notice of their competition’s short-comings.”<\/p>\n

And so on to what looks like a factor and comment to consider, posted by Chris Lott<\/a>. He points to del.ici.ous role in the world of Rest<\/a>ful interfaces – “del.icio.us excels when you want to share your bookmarks on a wider basis, when tagging makes more sense than categories, and when you want to access programmatically using the REST interface.”<\/p>\n

To wrap up – for now! – this is an area that i want to keep tracking. But from what i know of the services so far it seems while furl is more consumer driven in terms of interface and now ownership<\/a>, del.ici.ous is more part of the restifarian<\/a> universe.<\/p>\n

Its not clear which is so far most effectively driving architecture of participation<\/a>. Which brings me neatly to Stephen’s discussion of the changing notion of what constitutes a “service”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While innovation in WS-I seems to be slowing, there is a world of service splicing where innovation is far less constrained. Finally i have to say to furl again – keep up the good work, you are evidently very tasty, but please hurry up with your group bookmarking functionality! spurl <\/a>has that already? <\/p>\n

And does anyone know of any furl to delicious integration yet? i hear spurl supports that too-looks like another service to look at.<\/p>\n

Anyone reading this blog entry might turn away and think this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. fair enough. my point is that the conversation is still ongoing and i am still listening. and hopefully usefully aggregating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have pointed to Furl a couple of times recently. i like the online bookmarking service. but i do admit to having a certain del.ici.ous envy. This post from by business partner didn’t help. But i can’t help wondering if some of the apparent momentum in delicious is down to the Udell effect. John is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}