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“Diigo (dee'go) is about "Social Annotation". By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo offers a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform for knowledge users, and in the process, turns the entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive media.

Why it might be a killer: It combines features from a bunch of different sites into one thing, and all of these features work really well together. The ease with which you can add your content to blogs is really useful, and if students get word of this, it will make their lives writing papers and studying for their different subjects so much easier. When Diigo is criticized on blogs, there is a dedicated base of users that attack the bad review with proof of the site’s worth, which makes it hard to argue with.

Diigo Diigo is what surfing should have always been like. Diigo is a combination of many things together, social bookmarking, storing clippings, annotations, tagging, search, sticky notes and sharing of this information with others. It’s a great to store private web snippets.

Personal productivity has a smaller user base than perhaps the business or Social/Community systems, but the requirements are pretty well defined. The consumers in this segment are well versed in the services and utilities available on the internet, and hence are the most difficult to satisfy. They usually are not from larger organizations and their requirement is mostly for personal reasons or for organizing their day to day activities. When you scale up such a requirement it can also be applied for Business users. The applications usually cater to managing information, publishing and managing media property and other personal requirements.

Listed below are the Top 5 Personal Productivity applications on the Web as per the views registered here at NEO Binaries.

Another somewhat similar service is Diigo, which also has plug-ins for the major browsers that allow you to highlight content in a page (in Diigo's case it becomes yellow) and tag it with keywords. You can also add what amounts to a sticky note with comments, and then save it to Diigo's servers, where it is shared with other users. You can then go back to your account and see not just your own comments or highlighted sections from a site, but also the highlights and comments from any other Diigo user who also saved the page.

But what if saving a link isn't enough? Sometimes when you're researching a particular subject, you might want to keep more than just a link and a paragraph of text from a particular page.

eyalnow March 13, 2007 The whole point about Diigo is that the highlights and annotations stay on the page itself! I see it Diigo as a unique information-management tool, in the way that the information is still linked to its source - you can read it in its original context. Since installing Diigo a few days ago, I save highlights from nearly every *page* that I visit - be it long essays or insightful sentences. Another unique and powerful feature is the ability to search for words in the highlights and annotations that you’ve saved, so you can find something even if you didn’t initially tagged it. I humbly suggest you do a re-evaluation of it.

Actually I love using lots of different technology to help me in my research, especially since my ethnography work last year was mostly cyberethnography. Personally, I've taken to using del.icio.us, Diigo, and Scrapbook (I love this one), extensions for Firefox, 30 Boxes, NetVibes, and Google docs and spreadsheets (helpful because I don't own a copy of Word but it's on every one of the computers at uni), Google Notebook, and iGoogle (personalised google page).

Hands-on Diigo: bookmarking evolved By Rafe Needleman – August 1, 2006,

There's yet another new bookmarking utility live now: Diigo. This one is different. In addition to letting you bookmark pages and share those bookmarks with others, it also lets you highlight parts of pages (text or images), and store those highlights not only in your Diigo account, but also on the Web pages themselves

The annotation capability sets Diigo apart from Del.icio.us and makes it a more granular data-gathering tool, like ClipMarks