Diigo Community

Today Diigo released version 3 of their research and collaboration tool. I can describe it in one word - WOW!!! I’ve been a great fan of this social bookmarking system for quite a while, but this upgrade puts Diigo into a league of its own. The Diigo staff have made their platform a researcher’s dream. There’s a new browser toolbar, a new user dashboard, upgraded groups, expanded user profiles, a new comment wall and a platform-specific messaging system.

Web 2.0 was and is about Web innovation. So many startups have focused on everything from video to business applications, and much more. However, the list of startups that actually have practical and/or productive capabilities is still ? rather limited.

なんか、新しくなったDiigoは、かなりソーシャルになっていきそう。実は、放置のBloggerに自動投稿したり、さまざまなDiigoらし い基本機能はV2の頃からあったのだけど、今回かなりわかりやく、使いやすくなっている。これがソーシャルには必須なのかもしれないですね。

Diigo (pronounced Dee’go) is a great social bookmarking site if you like to bookmark, highlight, put sticky notes (comments) on certain information you’re interested in when searching the web. Diigo is great for research. If you collect a lot of information like me, this is a great place to store everything. I know when I start to research a topic offline it usually means a tonne of books on the desk, bits and pieces of loose paper everywhere, writing pads, folders, paper, pens, highlighters. I think you get the image.  Diigo does all of the above and so much more online. And if that isn’t enough you can even blog from there too.  The tutorials are very clear and easy to understand.  I know I seriously sound like an infomercial right now but I think I’ve found a site I didn’t know I was looking for it.  Over the Easter break I’m locking myself away with a mission to learn how to drive it!

For those that read a lot on the web and want to keep track of what they uncover, Diigo just delivered release 3.0. The tool offers a number of social booking marking features, but its core functionality is being able to highlight words, phrases, sections of text as well as graphics on a web page. The annotated pages are bookmarked, and optionally tagged so they may be retrieved at a later date. The highlighting facilitates finding the important sections on the page at a later date. It's a great tool for researching a specific topic.

Diigo improves its look and its toolbar! Already a great way to archive and annotate online pages, Diigo’s update makes using the service even easier.

I’ve sung the praises of social bookmarking service Diigo in the past here at Lifeclever. It archives a full cache of every page in case the original goes down, lets you highlight and annotate Web pages, and it publishes your links to all the other social bookmarking sites automatically. What’s not to love? Well, I guess some people are perfectionists, because the team at Diigo has just a launched new and improved version 3 in beta. I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks and, for my purposes, it offers a few nifty improvements. Tags are listed alphabetically by default, and the Diigo plugin for Firefox offers a “Twitter This” option which sends your link to Twitter as a tinyurl link. The new Diigo also offers spiffy social networking/recommendation functionality, but that’s not my bag, although it may be yours. Either way, there’s really no reason anyone should use the Yahoo’s stagnant Del.icio.us service anymore. Diigo’s much prettier and it runs faster too! Go import your Del.icio.us bookmarks today.

Diigo v3 places more emphasis on the social aspect of social bookmarking through merging ideas from several different sites together. For example, it takes annotating from Clipmarks, bookmarking from del.icio.us and a facility which suggests websites you may like based on your annotations from StumbleUpon.

Diigo v3 has some unique features which I like. When you are on websites, you can view what other users have highlighted and annotated which is useful for group projects where collaboration is necessary. You can also join groups and communities and send private messages to other users. Another interesting feature is WebSlides which lets you view your bookmarks as a slideshow which is useful if you can’t always remember the name of the site but you can remember the way it looks!

Diigo es una herramienta esencial para el educador y el estudiante 2.0.

I have found Diigo to be the best bookmarking tool on the web, hands-down

believe me, you have to give this new version a whirl, especially if you do any sort of collaborative work or if you blog or if you’re a researcher. For a great overview, see Social Bookmarking 2.0 — Diigo sets the standard for others to follow (bub.licio.us). That entry gives you the nuts-and-bolts of what Diigo does. An aspect I really appreciate (which isn’t stressed in the bub.licio.us article) is the control users have over whether or not to make a bookmark public, keep it private, or share it with others to a group. Another great feature is that users can make their annotations (the “sticky” notes) public, private, or shared to a group — and these settings are easy to change within a single bookmark, too. Diigo is quite simply fantastic! Congratulations to the whole team for bringing this to the web.