I have to admit, I’ve always been a big fan of Google. I love the search engine, google mail, and yes, even their newsreader. The interface is pretty slick, even if it isn’t the most responsive UI ever. Bloglines was my old favorite, but it got old scrolling through long pages if I hadn’t looked at a site in a while.

Being a nut for keeping track of sites and random crud around the internet, del.ico.us and Furl are a god-send. Del.icio.us has the easy UI for posting and tagging sites, but its gotten to be annoying slow nowadays. Think they need to spend some money on infrastructure. Of course, there is the question of how del.icio.us is making any money at all. Furl (and similarly spurl) lets you actually store copies of websites, so when the NY Times decides to move their articles and charge for them, I can just pull up my copy in Furl.

Thats why I’m looking forward to Google’s notebook service thats supposed to come out next week. TechCrunch has some nice screenshots they got from Erica Joy who works at Google. The notebook is supposed to be able to store linkes, images, and text, so it might be a good replacement for del.icio.us and Furl.

Update: Looks like folks have found the URL for notebook.

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