We've received a few emails asking how Furl Groups owners can get rid of spam from their groups. Thought if we heard from a few of you, there were even more folks out there with the same question.
If you are not a Furl Group owner, report spam to the Group owner.
If you are the Group owner, you can blacklist inappropriate content and or users by going to the members page for your group. The URL should look something like this: http://www.furl.net/group/GroupName/members. On that page it will list all of the members of your group. Next to each user name you will see the "F-menu" drop down.
For the person you'd like to remove from your group, please click the "f-menu" next to their user name. You will have the option to remove that user from your group.
The same process is true for an inappropriate or spam URL.
If you go to your main groups page and see a URL you'd like to remove, but not necessarily remove the member, click the F-menu next to the url and choose "remove from group" drop down.
If you change your mind about a previous decision go to your Groups action menu at the top of the Groups page and click either of these links to see what you have marked as inappropriate:
"View Banned URLs" at http://www.furl.net/group/groupname/blacklisted_urls
-or-
"View Banned Users" at http://www.furl.net/group/groupname/blacklisted_users.
Finally if you want to bring this user to our attention, go to the users Furl account and flag them as a spammer - that way our system will review their account and take appropriate action if the user is spamming more than just your group.
If you have any questions, please let us know. [email us: furl at furl dot net]
Furl Groups Allows Members to Share
Relevant Web Pages
San Francisco, Aug. 13, 2008 -- LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ: LOOK), a pay-per-click (PPC) Search Advertising
Network and technology solutions provider, today announced Furl Groups, a key extension of Furl, its social bookmarking tool (www.Furl.net). Furlenables members to bookmark, annotate and share Web pages, by creating a personalized index for each user.
With Furl Groups, members
can easily save Web pages anywhere on the Web and share them within groups. A Furl Group is a fast way for members to get
connected by sharing newly discovered Web pages as well as saved content on
Furl. Groups can form around a certain topic of interest such as cooking,
coding, politics and travel, or around a common connection of friends, family or
coworkers. It is easy to create a Group and
send out invitations to allow others to join. Group members can quickly check for recent additions and comments.
“Furl Groups has already seen healthy
organic growth in the number of groups and postings within groups. Some of the
popular categories include travel, technology, music, politics and parenting,” said
Ted West, chief executive officer and president of LookSmart, the parent
company of Furl. “Our goal is to offer this service within companies and
organizations, as well as to individuals — providing an efficient way to share
information in many categories from business to academics.”
Furl Groups offers private and public preferences,
allowing members to select who can view and share data within Groups. Users can
choose from three options: “private” groups, where only invited users are able
to see information; “invite-only” groups, where content is visible to other Furlers
but an invitation is required to join; and “public” groups, where anyone can
view the data and any Furl member can join. Private Groups can be set up for business or
personal use.
Popular Furl Group features include,
"Group Recommendations" based on a member’s saved history, "Most
Active Furl Groups" based on popularity and "Comments" on shared
content. Members can actively
participate or stay on the side-lines, watching new members join and share
relevant information. In
addition, Furl Groups is now available for
private-labeling to publishers, allowing those content owners to give their
users a customized experience.
About Furl
Furl
is a free service that saves important items on the Web, allowing quick
retrieval for future access. Furl archives a personal copy of every page and
provides a search service the full text of all archived items. Each Furl member
has a personal archive of 5 gigabytes (GB), large enough to store tens of
thousands of searchable items. Furl recommends new Web pages that may interest a
member, guided by the sites one has already "Furled," or saved. Furl
also offers the best ways to share the content a member finds on the Web. One
can send a daily email newsletter of links to friends and colleagues, use Furl
to generate RSS feeds for links, or integrate them quickly and easily into an
existing Web site. Furl was founded in the spring of 2003 by Mike Giles, and is
part of the LookSmart family.
About LookSmart
LookSmart
provides proven advertising solutions for advertisers and publishers. LookSmart
offers advertisers targeted pay-per-click (PPC) search and contextual search
advertising via its quality Advertiser Networks; and licenses its white label
AdCenter technology to publishers and networks. LookSmart is based in San Francisco,California. For more information,
visit www.LookSmart.com or call 415-348-7500.
We're extremely happy to announce that Furl Groups is now live on Furl.net.
Furl Groups is a new feature that
allows you and other Furlers to post items that you have Furled to a
shared area and comment on URLs and/or the group itself. Normally a Group is created around a
certain topic of interest (cooking, coding, politics, etc., ) or around
a common connection - (Friends, Family, Co-workers, Classmates, Reunion,
etc.) Or it can be as simple as one or more user(s) sharing great content
they found on the web.
We've created this feature to allow you to
connect privately with other Furlers, suggest great reads with your
book club, or share more openly with the Furl community allowing anyone
to view the content you have found in the shared area of interest.
Please take a look at Furl Groups by going tohttp://www.furl.net/groups and start sharing your favorite web sites today!
We'd love to hear what you think of Furl Groups, please take our furl groups survey by clicking here. Or email us at Furl [at] Furl.net, please have the term "Groups" somewhere in your title.
We apologize for the last minute notice but we've had to take Furl and beta.furl.net offline for some emergency maintenance. We expect to be back up within the hour but will keep you updated here.
We launched a new toolbar this afternoon that is compatible with Firefox 3.0. To download the latest version of the Furl Toolbar please go to: http://www.furl.net/tools/install and click the "Furl Toolbar" link.
We included a few bug fixes in this release, including minor fixes to our import and export functions. You also may notice that the Furl Save Dialog box is a little faster and has a few improvements to it's look and feel.
We hope you enjoy these changes and if you have any feedback on this release please email us.
We're extremely happy to announce that Furl Groups is now in limited Beta testing.
Furl Groups is a new feature that allows you and other Furlers to post items that you have Furled to a shared area and comment on URLs and/or the group itself.
Normally a Group is created around a certain topic of interest (cooking, coding, politics, etc., ) or around a common connection - Friends, Family, Co-workers, Classmates, Reunion, etc. Or it can be as simple as two or more users sharing great content they found on the web. We've created this feature to allow you to connect privately with other Furlers, suggest great reads with your book club, or share more openly with the Furl community allowing anyone to view the content you have found in the shared area of interest.
If you'd like to see our latest functionality and provide feedback (or call "dibs" on a group name) please sign up to be a beta tester - by emailing us with the title Beta User furl@furl.net <mailto:furl@furl.net> . Be sure to include your valid Furl username and email address.
We'll be opening up Furl Groups to everyone for evaluation over the next couple of weeks.
Looking forward to hearing your comments on our latest feature. Already seeing some pretty cool new Groups popping up on beta.furl.net.
We're looking for a
very small set of users to join our Furl Beta group. This group would agree to
review latest Furl changes and provide feedback - likes, dislikes, suggestions,
etc.,.
If you are willing
to try out our Beta site, please email us
with the subject line: "Beta User". In the body of your email please
include your Furl user name and a valid email address where we can send
you an official invitation.
If you were already a Furl Beta tester last time around (January 2008) we'll send you an invite automatically.
Huge thanks to all of you who submitted feedback on how to improve Furl. We received great comments and suggestions and have taken your thoughts back
to our team to review. We'll be announcing which ones will be going live
shortly.
Do you wish Furl
offered a certain feature? Or is a bug in production driving you crazy?
If yes, tell us what
you'd love to see fixed or added to Furl by commenting on this blog post or
emailing us and we'll attempt to implement the most popular changes. (Note: we
will be considering technical complexity in choosing our next projects.)
