Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

Rival Clipmarks offers some similar annotation features.

t they’re offering a “better del.icio.us”

Diigo isn’t a terrible product, but I think it’s safe to say it’s going nowhere. Aside from the few hundred users who find the additional features useful, it’s unlikely to see any real adoption.

As I said in an email to you guys, I’m sorry for being so tactless about this - and you’re right that I didn’t give a fair run down of your features. Nonetheless, I do wonder if you might struggle to differentiate the offering in this market.

Best thing about Diigo by far is the inadvertent smiling walrus in the logo. The site’s starting a footrace that’s already over, but that walrus is seriously cute!

These services depend on volume to experience any success at all, being collective intelligence models.

If you have ever tried to use it I can assure you it is pretty painful. I am not sure if it is something personal to me, but I find their UI design very painful.

I say that review was spot on except for the line: “Diigo isn’t a terrible product”

Diigo Launches, Nobody Cares

If you’re looking for some awesome blogging and research tools in addition to everything you’d expect in a bookmarking service, then explore the depth of services that Diigo has to offer. In my opinion Diigo isn’t just a tool, it’s more akin to a household appliance.

This space is seriously crowed!

“Diigolet” (no Flock version yet)

I hate it when I read a nice blog post and at the bottom they have a “Liked this Article? Bookmark us!” section, and there are 26 entries (no kidding!).

Diigo is different, not because it can’t do what the other services do. It’s different because it puts the user’s needs first and centre, instead of using the user for information aggregation purposes.

32. the Wandering Author - July 29, 2006 What I don’t understand is why anyone should care about the opinion of a blogger who apparently posts without even knowing anything about his subject. I spend a lot of time doing research, some of it on the Internet. I have a whole, long list of somewhat nice tools I have come across. Most of them are things I might use occasionally. I would never even think of adding toolbars for most of them, or setting up a permanent tab in Firefox to keep them always available - I’d just clutter up my workspace. But that is exactly what I have done with Diigo - I installed their toolbar and I set up a permanent Firefox tab for them. Why? I can share bookmarks with others when I need to, but much more importantly, I can highlight, annotate, clip, and bookmark any Web content I choose, all in one central, convenient spot. Diigo is like a well-loved research notebook crammed with notes for current projects, past projects, possible future projects. Unlike most of the bookmarking “services”, I can go back to a page and see my own notes reminding me of the thought which prompted me to bookmark it. There is nothing else that even approaches it on the Web, or if there is, I haven’t heard of it. The only other social bookmarking service I consider of any real use is eSnips, which allows me to upload files for sharing with a group of my choice. Which is an entirely different feature. But, I could more easily imagine Diigo adding that functionality to their existing site than I could imagine eSnips catching up to Diigo. Personally, I hope both eSnips and Diigo survive, but if only one of them is to be a success, my vote is firmly with Diigo. As for all the other, popular social bookmarking sites out there - yes, it was a somewhat interesting idea, but they have already been left in the dust by Diigo. Calling Diigo “just another” site like the others is as absurd as it would be to label the first interstellar spaceship “just another aircraft”. Yes, I can think of features or tweaks I wish Diigo would add. But they’re just starting out. I’m sure the first interstellar spacecraft will need a few refits, too. But that’s no reason to suggest we might as well all stay on Earth and ignore the rest of the Universe. Diigo opens up a much wider universe on the Web to me, and to many others. To all of you who don’t care - enjoy being stranded in your little backwater pond as it stagnates - I will be out surfing the whole wide ocean of data out there. And I won’t waste any time worrying about you and your plight; after all, you brought it on yourselves by your apathy.

The question is: does anybody care?

History

Why We Like Diigo

use the web to research

as easily as if I were using a yellow highlighter and a red pen

mark up web pages

no longer need to copy

all digitally facilitated with the Diigo social bookmarking and annotating tool

shifted the way I read the world wide web

much more active

in the same way I use a paper textbook

scribble in the margins

"dog-ear" important pages

individually or collaboratively

highlight and comment as I go, building a path

snippets that I want to remember

return to what is important

information-processing is heightened

a greater level of usefulness

not tied to any one computer

private or public sticky notes

a powerful collaborative tool

message boards

automated email summaries

extract highlighted text from a set of web pages

create a personalized learning environment for any topic

"Extract Annotations"

replicating what I used to do on paper

all of those highlighted passages in one place

Diigo saves me a lot of this time

access many more sources of information

my ability to scan, organize, and absorb multiple sources of information is greatly increased

also see what others have highlighted or commented

when I search on Diigo the results are based on what my colleagues in the field have identified as important and relevant

Diigo is a tool that fosters collaboration and resource sharing

benefit from others' insight

faculty committees use Diigo

everyone on the committee has access to a growing set of shared links

such as ways we can build a more sustainable culture

helps to identify important segments

the more of an individual’s thoughts they include via the commenting tools, the better

thoughtful comments tied to specific portions of the text are more illuminating

localized comments

fruitful conversations

create your own groups for any purpose

feedback of other group members

discover new tools and content

When I was ready to collect

professional development interests of each teacher

exciting for me and my students

metacognition (thinking about thinking)

I used the Diigo for educators feature to set all the students up with an account that meets COPPA requirements

I had such a fun time

assess the students' work

really cool

like I was reading the stories along with each of them

kids used the tools built in to Diigo to demonstrate their use of the reading strategies that we've been practicing with paper text

showed their thinking

asking questions, reflecting, and analyzing the text by inserting these as comments

a powerful tool for supporting and scaffolding metacognition

deepens my thinking about the content

see how my colleagues have responded

my Diigo network

Diigo also stores a "cached" version of each web page you visit

the best tool is one that meets all of our needs all of the time. We believe that Diigo is this tool.

Diigo can also be set to update other networks

Diigo is a powerful tool that is literally changing the way that we look at the web. It has gotten me excited about bookmarking again.

I subscribe to several "groups" on Diigo

Several people have collaboratively worked on this article

Demetri Orlando

Michèle Drechsler

Sarah Hanawald

Beth Ritter-Guth