This week my twitter network has been buzzing about Diigo. I’ve got to admit it I checked it out over a year and half ago and dismissed it as I was del.icio.us fan. I figure there must be something new to bring people on board the Diigo train.
In my rediscovery of Diigo I realized that bookmarking is just a small piece of their services. People can share bookmarks with other users, bundle bookmarks with common tags, and tag recommendations. At this point you may be saying “okay what is special about this service?” Let’s start off with highlighting (no need for the Firefox plugin), comments & sticky notes on webpages, the mirroring of bookmarks with other social bookmarking services like del.icio.us, and a forum/bulletin board feature. I forgot to mention that you can twitter you’re bookmarks. Basically it takes social bookmarking and gave it steroids to give the user more functions within one service.
Here is the promotional video highlighting the diigo’s services.
Well done Diigo. I’ve given Diigo a lot of screentime and I’m finding more and more things to like about it. The great thing is that I feel like I’m hedging my bookmarks should del.icio.us or Diigo have a major outage (a.k.a. bloglines).
I’ve created a how to guide using Skitch and Google Docs for people if you want to learn how easy it is to use Diigo while maintaining another social bookmarking service like del.icio.us. You’re welcome to use it and share it with others.
Allowing Diigo to Play Nice with Del.icio.us
tags technorati : diigo socialbookmarking del.icio.us skitch googledocs
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I have so far avoided joining diigo despite the twitter network craze. So, yesterday, I, too joined up but have not had time to look at it yet. Have tagged this post in delicious for reference to use when I do get time.
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