Diigo defines itself as Social Annotation:
the best way to collect, share and interact on online information from anywhere
Diigo provides a basic toolbar from which all features are accessed.
Clicking on the Diigo button immediately opens up a bookmarking window. Having such quick access is very handy. The bookmarking window offers all the basics: url, title, Tags, Public/Private (public means your bookmark is visible by others), Unread (bookmark something and come back later to read more), Add elsewhere (Diigo allows integration with other bookmarking services). Additionally, Diigo displays existing comments, and lets you add your own comments.
The bookmarking service integration can be improved. Diigo doesn’t automatically login to the service. A popup login screen is provided for each service selected. This is laborious. There needs to be automatic integration so it seems seamless. Current integration is available with del.icio.us, blinklist, rawsugar, netvouz, shadows, furl, simply, spurl and yahoo.
The comments is where Diigo begins to diverge from other services. Comments are public and visible by all Diigo users. The purpose of comments is to leave short thoughts about a site that will provide useful to other users. Comments are view when using Diigo to bookmark a page. A commenter on the Yahoo page
wisely noted:
Diigo really needs a function to thumb up/thumb down the comments for pages. This will get spammy, really, really quick.
This is true and needs to be addressed by Diigo.
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started by Graham Perrin on 12 Jan 09
15 follow-ups, last by Graham Perrin on 04 Oct 09
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started by anonymous on 23 Jul 09
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started by Daniel Gauthier on 17 Oct 11
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started by Richard Lloyd on 12 Oct 09
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started by Graham Perrin on 08 Jul 09
31 follow-ups, last by sandy_diigo on 16 Dec 10
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Diigo toolbar Read Later should add as Private - 179 views
started by Ben . on 11 Jan 09
12 follow-ups, last by Graham Perrin on 10 Mar 10
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started by Bob Chauvin on 05 Dec 08
7 follow-ups, last by Graham Perrin on 09 Jun 09
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started by Hilco Blok on 29 Sep 08
5 follow-ups, last by Graham Perrin on 01 Oct 09
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[Important] Furl transition update - 344 views
floating window for sticky note is always too small for its contents - 45 views
started by Graham Perrin on 29 Sep 09
7 follow-ups, last by Graham Perrin on 21 Jul 10
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