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.

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Keep Track Of Your Comments With coComment

Posted by Matt on September 25th, 2007

At DEMOfall07, coComment is releasing version 2.0 of its web application. As the name suggests, coComment allows people to discover, track, manage, and share comments on the web. With the release of version 2.0, coComment gears more towards a social network based on website comments. Newly introduced are several features that further promote the sharing of comments and conversations with your friends. coComment also does a decent job of aggregating comments of similar topics, allowing users to search for conversations on issues they are interested in. Find out more from their demo video here.

I have mixed feelings on this one. Allowing users to track the numerous comments they have placed on the web is a great idea and I have always said comments hold some of the best and probably the most valuable social opinion on the internet. However, the real question that will make or break coComment is, “Does the demand exist?” I personally don’t have any problem keeping track of all the comments I make on websites, and the average user definitely does not comment enough to warrant another login and password to use coComment.

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