Diigo Evangelists

Il en est des services de bokmarkings comme des opérateurs de téléphonie mobile ou des bons chocolatiers : le confort de l’habitude entraîne un important taux de fidélité et une forte résistance au changement. Importer ses bookmarks, changer ses habitudes… sans avoir la certitude d’être convaincu. Au final, le mieux reste l’ennemi du bien.

To keep up with parts of the global conversation that might not have a simple RSS feed, I use feeds from social bookmarking services like Diigo and Del.icio.us.

About a year ago I heard about a social bookmark site called Diigo.  I saw it as another Delicious clone but figured I would look at it a bit deeper it just seemed to be more.  It was a good decision! Since that time I have been using Diigo and their tool bar every day.   I use it to keep sites I want to find very easy to find and sort and search.  I use it to market my own sites and to put my sites into all the other top book mark sites including delicious.  I also use it to improve my daily productivity and the beauty is once set up it takes up no extra time to use it.  It becomes seamlessly integrated into your daily efforts. I just did three training Videos on Diigo for our paying members, they are called, Social Bookmarking With The Diigo Tool Bar  Using Diigo To Mass Social Bookmark Web Sites Cool Marketing Productivity Features With Diigo If you don't know about social book mark sites these videos will teach you what you need to know.  If you do know about them then these videos will take your efforts to a new level.  The social bookmark sites are going to become the Google, Yahoo and Ask.com's of tomorrow so now the time to get into them and build up your presence.

We jumped in with both feet to Diigo.  Using Yugma we set up the Diigo toolbar, created a group for Making Connections, and added sticky notes to those pages.  We all agreed this tool has great possibilities in a classroom setting. 

Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Barr proposes that we might move beyond email some day: I am starting to think that there may be such a thing as a post-email era, a time when we have forgotten about the entire concept of an Inbox, when there’s no such thing as catching up, and when more of our time and energy can be used in a more productive fashion.

Could we really get beyond email? It just might happen:

Social media researcher danah boyd considers email dead “in the sense that it is not longer a site of deep emotional passion

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

All Clipmarks passages are linked to their online sources, which is an improvement from simply copying and pasting text into an e-mail or blog.

There are a lot of social bookmarking sites on the Web, and Clipmark's granular clipping feature is not different enough to make the site fundamentally more useful or relevant than others. It is, however, just as good a time-waster as Digg, Reddit, or StumbleUpon.

There is one thing about Clipmarks that really bugs me, though: You can easily clip and save content to Clipmarks and then e-mail or blog it, as I said above. But once you leave the page you've highlighted clippings on, they vanish. To me, that's like having a highlighter with disappearing ink, which is not really what one expects: You highlight some text, turn the page, turn it back, and presto! your highlights are gone. I'd like the option to make Clipmark highlights persistent. Annotation services such as Stickis and Trailfire do this, but they're designed for a different purpose.

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.

“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.

My own lack of enthusiasm for social bookmarking sites clouded my judgement when I read that review.

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.

Diigo is a great, no, a fantastic tool(!) Not only for bookmarking but also for research, blogging and a must for any social bookmark mania. It's a kind if mix between del.icio.us (social bookmarks), Wizlite (web highlight and notes), Onlywire (multi post to social bookmarks), with Blogging support.

  Top 5 Bookmarking Applications – Jots tops the group Wednesday, April 18, 2007

per the views registered here at NEO Binaries.

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.

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.

DiigoOur current favourite for managing our bulging bookmarks at Mohawk. For shared bookmarking and social annotation. A life and timesaver for journalists, researchers and knowledge workers.http://www.diigo.com/$ - Free.

Here is another one, Diigio (pronounced as “dee’go”.) “Add Sticky Notes and Highlights to any specific texts of a web pages,” says Maggie Tsai, one of the co-founders of this tiny start-up. You can keep these notes private or make them public.

Om, Thanks for mentioning Diigo here. If we can help, we really do not like to get too lumped up with other bookmarking services like delicious though I think the thing that differentiates Diigo’s social annotation from social bookmarking services is that highlights, comments and interactions happen right on the page, in situ. Personally, I think this makes Diigo not only a more useful personal tool, but also a more powerful social tool that enable more fruitful interactions and connections among information consumers. See Flash demo (http://www.diigo.com/help/tutorial.htm) and Why Diigo?http://www.diigo.com/help/why_diigo.jsp Diigo includes bookmarking features as a necessary component, since without it, it would be difficult to track things. Plus, Diigo allows advanced search of full-text pages, tags, notes, highlights, and titles. Wade Ren, CEO Diigo (www.diigo.com) Wade Ren on December 27th, 2005

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).