Diigo is a website which allows users to bookmark and tag websites. It also
allows users to highlight all or part of a page and attach sticky notes to the
page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo or
a special link forwarded to someone else. The name "Diigo" is an abbreviation
for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".[1]

The launch of Diigo met with mixed responses from the unimpressed [2] to the enthusiastic [3]. The product is still capable of further development such
as that comprehensively detailed by a Diigo user at [4] but response on whole has been positive an example of which
can be seen in the comparison between several social bookmarking sites on
IA-Blog [5]

Diigo beta was listed as one of the top 10 research tools by CNET in 2006 [6].

Let's say you save a recipe for jambalaya but want to add your own secret
ingredients. You can highlight, say, step 2 of the recipe and add a Sticky Note
describing your own step 2B. The Sticky Notes mini-window appears whenever you
roll over the highlighted text on that Web page. Add a Comment instead, and that
will show up within your list of bookmarks on Diigo. You can make these
annotations private or public to allow comments from other users and cluster a
bunch of bookmarks within an album to manage various projects--and export them
as a feed. And if you blog, you can highlight text on a site and use the Diigto
Toolbar to make a quick post to a WordPress,
Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Movable Type, or Windows Live Spaces account.

How can you find the good stuff in your bundle of bookmarks? Diigo's advanced
search lets you scour the text of pages you've bookmarked--not just the basic
titles, tags, and URLs that Del.icio.us goes through--as well as your own
highlights and comments. So if you forgot to tag that jambalaya recipe, a Diigo
search for "shrimp" should do the trick. And your tag cloud, à la Del.ico.us,
shows the most-used topics. As with Del.icio.us, click any tag to see bookmarks
that you and other users have made. At this point, many popular Web sites
haven't been bookmarked by many Diigo users. Still, Del.icio.us users are
migrating to Diigo; one of its most popular tags is
imported:del.icio.us.

Judging by common bookmark tags, such as "Web 2.0," the Diigo community is
full of tech-savvy users. Still, we find it straightforward enough that a
dedicated bookmarking newbie shouldn't have a problem adopting Diigo as a
research companion. Diigo is great for taking notes on Web pages and using them
to collaborate with other users--and since we started using Diigo, we've lost
our appetite for Del.icio.us.

Diigo, which has a cameo in the Wesch film (nominated for best supporting web
ap), offers itself in its latest beta incarnation as a site for sharing
annotations in the form of sticky tabs. Thus, the web becomes notable. I have
already begun to use this site in my classes for commenting on blogs my students
write.

But why not use this tool, in the spirit of Writer Response Technologies, in
the spirit of Flickr fiction and Tag Cloud Art, as a tool for creating fiction.
Because Diigo offers the social annotation of sites, there is the possibility of
creating narratives, parasitic though they may be, upon the websites of
others.Following the genre of annotation fiction, discussed at length below, why
not turn the web into a means of characterization, to turn web reading practices
themselves into ways of examining the ergodic, interiority of our characters, or
to stitch together tales of paranoia in the way that various ARGS have.

If we use the tool in this manner, the Web will be, as author Roberto Leni
has put it, our palette.