you're less likely to lose all your bookmarks in the event of a hard drive
meltdown
where the 'social' comes in, by saving your bookmarks on the web, suitably
tagged, other people will be able to see your bookmarks on a
particular topic, and you will be able to see theirs
Unclutter your mind.
I’m all for not having to remember tech tutorials or the tour company we used in NYC, bookmarks allow me to archive that knowledge. They are my digital library.
Your browser enables you to save a link, place it in a folder, and possibly add a few tags (which you probably don’t use).
Can you annotate a link?
How about highlighting a portion of the page?
Does it take a snapshot of the page?
Will it create lists? Generate reports?
How effectively can you search your bookmarks?
How much more useful and complete would your links become with these tools?
Hyperlinks are pieces of information, we need context. What was important about the link? What we need is a library that has information about the data we collecting.
Welcome to Diigo
Social bookmarking and a whole lot more.
As you can see Diigo is an amazing tool that can revolutionize how you research and archive the web.
How Diigo can make you more productive?
Diigo’s research tools make archiving a breeze so you will build a much more complete and useful reference system. An online database that you can search and share with ease.
TakeAways
Bookmarking prevents us from having to remember.
Our bookmarks become a personal reference library
Diigo’s superior tools will help you create an amazing library.
The easiest way to share events and other real-life activities with friends, Plancast easily plugs into Facebook and Twitter. The easy to use interface enables quick sharing of a plan - what, when, where - with the options to include a description, link, locations and maps.
You can tag your plans for easy searching and the interface provides local plans that you might find interesting, and enables you to profile your social networking tools. Each plan can be shared with Twitter or Facebook and there are widgets, logos and buttons for blogs and websites. New features include a categories list. Click on the link to see an example.
They left out Flickr Commons, though, which is a really excellent international source and allows for public tagging if you want to curate things with your own search terms: http://www.flickr.com/commons/
"Facts, figures, and complex calculations based on data are important, but they are not intelligence. The amazing recent events in the Middle East have brought home an important distinction between data and intelligence that is particularly relevant for IT and organizations as a whole"