Diigo

Diigo – Social Information & Research Tool

The bookmarking tool I prefer to use is Diigo and with the release of V3 it has just got better. Diigo enables you to maintain you bookmarks/favourites online in one central location. But it does more, a whole lot more. It allows you to make notes – yellow sticky notes on any page of interest to you and you can highlight text on a web page too. Not only that, you can share these comments with other Diigo users by marking as ‘Public’ or keep your comments just for yourself ‘Private’, and you can access their Public comments too. This is where the ‘Social Information’ side of bookmarking comes in, you’re sharing knowledge with others and creating a social community. And now with V3 you can gravitate to others with similar interests by joining groups about a subject, tag, or website, or create your own group.

Another new feature is a sidebar, available from the little box on the left of the Diigo toolbar. I don’t usually get on too well with sidebars, you need some page real estate after all, but this one is actually useful – the first tab has a list of your latest bookmarks and the second all the Diigo comments on that webpage.

More information about the functions of Diigo can be seen on this video.