Diigo: Just Another Social Bookmark Tool?
Posted by Matt on September 26th, 2007
Diigo.com just announced their relaunch of their site at DEMOfall07. This version 2.0 release carries some new features as well as many UI improvements with everything just looking a little bit more “Web 2.0″. Diigo touts themselves as a “integrated suite of online research and social tools that transforms the Web into a writable, participatory media”. In reality, it’s pretty much del.icio.us meets SharedCopy.
Basically, users can either install a browser plugin or use their “magical” javascript bookmark to store, highlight, comment, and share websites as they browse the web. Highlights and comments are sent to Diigo, so that others in your Diigo “group” can now see those same modifications when they visit the same website. This creates a multi-layered web, where basically a conversation takes place about a website thats not integrated into the website. The browser plugin also has some other nifty side features like “highlight and search” and “highlight and blog” allowing you to quickly steal share content you find on the web.
They also just announced a partnership with WebSlides allowing you to convert your bookmarks into slideshows that you can then publish to your our website.
