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by Alec Muffett

Back-Up Your Furl Databases, ASAP !!!

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LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), an online advertising and technology solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Company’s FindArticles.com property to CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET) in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $20.5 million. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close within a few days and is structured as an asset sale.

I know quite a few people who use Furl.net, a LookSmart service; if you do, I would recommend backing up your Furl database as soon as possible.

My suggestion for doing that would be:

  • log in to furl
  • click “My Tools” tab
  • click “Export” sub-tab
  • Ensure pulldown says “All”
  • right-click – Download/Save the “Furl XML format” link
  • right-click – Download/Save the “Zip archive of your saved documents” link
  • right-click – Download/Save the “Netscape bookmark format” link
  • right-click – Download/Save the “BibTeX citation format” link

    • …which should give you enough redundant information for a handy geek to be able to reconstruct what you need. 🙂

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    4 responses to “Back-Up Your Furl Databases, ASAP !!!”

    1. alecm

      http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBNG5715920071107

      Nov 7 (Reuters) – LookSmart Ltd (LOOK.O: Quote, Profile, Research), an online media and technology company, reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss, hurt by continued volatility in ad spend among its larger volume advertisers and impairment charges.

      The company also said it will sell its FindArticles.com property to CNET Networks Inc (CNET.O: Quote, Profile, Research) for about $20.5 million in cash.

      LookSmart posted a third-quarter loss of $4.3 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenue of $12.6 million. This compares with a loss of $3.9 million, or 17 cents per share, on revenue of $12.2 million. Latest quarter’s results included $0.6 million of non-cash, share-based compensation charges.

      The company also recorded an impairment charge of $1.6 million for the quarter.

      Analysts were looking for a loss of 12 cents per share on revenue of $13.4 million, according to Reuters Estimates.

      The company said it also reduced its overall workforce by about 25 percent during the quarter.

      Shares of the company rose 4 percent to $2.40 in late electronic trade, after closing at $2.29 Wednesday on the Nasdaq. (Reporting by Sreerupa Mitra in Bangalore; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier, Anil D’Silva)

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    2. Melodie Neal

      Any suggestions for what to do when trying to download the zip file gets you an error message that says “Whoops, something went wrong.”, and you can’t get any response from the Furl support folks? Not looking forward to doing a manual save of everything I have in there……

      Melodie

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    3. alecm

      @ Melodie: previous experience has shown the Furl people get back to you “eventually”, but they do get back to you.

      A friend has 4000+ items and the XML fill will not download as a single piece, so we are using categorised chunks to retrieve it, and are gonna collate it back into a single lump, using Perl.

      Sucks.

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    4. Melodie Neal

      the XML I can get, just not the actual content: won’t zip anything.

      ++Sucks

      By the by, what on earth is an “impairment charge”? Something to do with impaired upper management?

      M

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