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Hi John, I use Diigo as a kind of information-management tool, and I see it's great novelty in keeping the connection between the information and its source. It's indeed the only tool available that lets me interact with the source itself - highlight text, add my notes on specific highlights, comment on the whole page, tag it for later, and share it with others. I also like it's search and viewing capabilities. About the social aspect - I notice that some people, while not great writers themselves, are very good in picking out the highlights from any given text and tagging it. You can easily notice that at delicious, digg and clipmarks. On a wider perspective, imagine that top thinkers, scientists and other inspirational people start to use Diigo, and share some of their I know I for one would like to follow what Noam Chomski and Kevin Kelly are reading and finding worthy. Posted by: eyalnow.wordpress.com March 11, 2007 11:04 PM

Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends. Mindomo brings clarity to your ideas by taking advantage of the right side of your brain, which is specialized in activities that are visual, creative, and intuitive.

Atlassian Confluence 2.2.10 Confluence has multiple personalities: a collaboration tool, intranet, document repository, and project monitor. Throughout it all, however, the system stays true to its wiki roots. Spaces hold pages that are easily organized, can reference attachments, and turn into discussion forums using comments. Moreover, everything is searchable - subject to enterprise-grade security that extends permissioning to individual pages.

It’s important, I think, for the Open Source community to recognise that there needs to be a collation of tools to make that one killer app - straying away from the “do one thing and do it well” mentality, sure, but that’s where things seem to be headed. Mediawiki + Unobtrusive Sidenotes + a good WYSIWYG editor + some way to integrate with OpenOffice/KOffice + an email interface for email-to/from-wiki + good RSS Feeds + LDAP/AD Authentication + iCalendar (or some wikiable calendar) + exporting to PDF + whatever else as one package will provide some really stiff competition to Sharepoint, which is only improving in integration with Office with the upcoming 2007 release. You could probably use a bit of AJAX to do a number of the extras. Something like Confluence. Without of course taking Mediawiki too far down the same path as Sharepoint - it’s important that at its core, Mediawiki remains a wiki and not a bastardised spawn-of-wiki-CMS.

Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media Written by Sarah Perez / April 16, 2008 2:00 PM / 52 Comments digg_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/real_people_dont_have_time_for_social_media.php'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of. So how can regular folk get involved with social media? And how much time does it really take?