DISQUS

Sarah,

Thanks for sharing your diigo experience. Glad that you found Diigo "delicious" :-)

BTW, Diigo toolbar is fully customizable to allow you to save precious desktop space. Here are some tips: http://tinyurl.com/8yftm5 Check it out!

Welcome to the Diigo community!

Maggie
co-founder
Diigo

Understand. Here is a suggestion for your and many people's dilemma:

With diigo, not only you can bookmark, you can also add highlights, sticky notes and have interactions right on the webpage to enrich your browsing and organization experience. You can also simultaneously bookmark to several bookmarking sites – make it easy to have one single source without giving up other services. So it's not a competing but rather a complement service to delicious!

Diigo also really adds the "social" in social bookmarking and in a very meaningful way http://tinyurl.com/3soanp

By the way, delicious is the recipient of Blogger's choice Open Web Award in the social bookmarking category (congrats!) and Diigo just received the People's choice award. Again, quite a complement pair :-)

Great post!

Relating to Bryan's comment, thought you may be interested in Diigo V3 ~ "Unintentional" Social Networking http://tinyurl.com/59dmb3
and eHub's comment about "Non-Intrusive" Social Networking http://tinyurl.com/5b6nc6

Paul, great list! Thanks for researching and sharing

Here is an interactive WebSlides of the list ~
http://tinyurl.com/writerstoolbox

Check it out

Thanks Andy for your kind support of Diigo!

Indeed, Diigo groups is a great Collaborative Research Platform. Don't forget to explore many group features, such as group badge, linkrolls / tagrolls, group auto-post, plus the group tag dictionary that helps enforce tagging consistency within a group!

There are always more room for further improvements - should you have suggestions, please share them in our User Forums! We're always listening and working hard to make Diigo better and better.

cheers,

Maggie

Check out what sets Diigo apart from the rest of social bookmarking services: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A
& user reviews: http://www.diigo.com/list/maggie_diigo/diigo-v3...

(note: the above review list uses an innovative feature of Diigo, "List". Click "Expand" button to view extracted highlights or by clicking "WebSlides" button, you can even play the entire collection as an interactive web slideshow)

Hi Phil,

Thanks very much for such a thorough and enthusiastic review of Diigo!

Indeed, diigo is designed with productivity in mind, so we have thoughtfully integrated useful features to make them quite accessible for knowledge users. And yet, it's still quite easy to get started. Your advice for beginner users is right on! Just start with the very basics first. Also, Diigo is an active knowledge community - lots of help available. Join us at our active user forums for Q&A and feedback!

We look forward to your active participation and like to warmly welcome you and your readers to the Diigo community!

Maggie
co-founder
Diigo

Yes... we are working on something really cool. Stay tuned...

Yes, it's passionate users like you that help us make diigo better and better and a truly high quality knowledge sharing community!

Writing a primer on Diigo - that'd be fabulous. Check out our blog and HELP files for many tips. Should you need any assistance, let us know. We'd love to collaborate and showcase it!

Phil,

Thanks for the coverage. Diigo is designed with productivity and collaboration in mind. This is just one of many features that really set diigo apart.

We look forward to having your active participation in the Diigo community!

Best,

Maggie
co-founder
Diigo

"Carpenter thinks Diigo isn’t about bookmarking for personal reference, but about using your shared content as a springboard for social interaction." I disagree.

Diigo is two services in one -- first and foremost, it’s a research and collaborative research tool. It’s also a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other hand.

In fact, it is completely ok to be anti-social on Diigo. In this “anti-social mode”, Diigo as simply a great research tool that can really enhance your productivity. Diigo’s advanced bookmarking functions: bookmark, highlight, annotate, forward, clippings, tagging, caching, groups, lists, plus a lot more, are all designed with personal productivity in mind to facilitate better ways of how to discover, process, manage, and share online information more productively and effectively.

Second, and more importantly, most of the “social” things happening on Diigo do not require any extra effort from you — they are just there to augment your information discovery and sharing. And of course, you can easily collaborate, share, and follow your friends / colleagues using many of the advanced collaboration features that Diigo offers.

We invite you to check out our blog / about:

http://www.diigo.com/about
http://blog.diigo.com/2008/03/28/having-trouble...

Maggie
Diigo

Diigo is undergoing an upgrade & work is in progress now. For the latest status update, please visit our blog, user forum, and follow us on Twitter.

Note: Diigo FF toolbar has long been compatible with FF3. Please make sure that you install the latest download from the diigo site.

Diigo is continuing improving and innovating. We'd like to invite you to check out diigo closely shortly after the current rollout is completed.

Andy,

Glad that you've discovered diigo. Thanks for taking your time to write a great review - succinct and to the points, and sharing it with your readers!

We are developing Diigo to scratch our personal itch - how to discover, process, manage, and share online information more productively and effectively. Since diigo is designed with productivity in mind it's all the subtle details, the depth of features, and how everything is nicely integrated that make the user experience count.

Like to welcome you and your friends to the Diigo community!

Best,

Maggie
co-founder
Diigo

Layne,

Thanks for a great review. Glad that you found diigo useful. Indeed diigo is designed with productivity in mind...

I giggled reading your comment about social websites :-) You might be interested in our comment about diigo being an "unintentional social networking", or best referred as a "social information network“: http://blog.diigo.com/2008/03/28/having-trouble...

By the way, see that you're an educator as well. A special educator account is being developed & under way. Love to welcome you to the diigo community and look forward to your active participation!

cheers,

Maggie
co-founder
diigo

Mike,

Thanks for taking your time to give us some thoughtful feedback. It's very helpful, and we really appreciate it.

Some of our UI in these social functions are fairly "standard" design practices by other social media sites and we didn't try too hard to "reinvent the wheel" there (though most of diigo core functionalities are quite unique and nicely thought-out.) But I do see where some potential user error / confusion might be... We will be discussing internally to see ways to further improve the process.

Kate, Thanks for your sharing your support and enthusiasm for diigo. It's users like you that makes diigo community so special, and motivates us working even harder to make diigo the best it can be as both a great research tool & knowledge sharing community for all to enjoy!

cheers,

Maggie

James,

Thanks for a great coverage. Glad that you found diigo useful, and thanks for sharing the tip with your readers!

Look forward to your active participation in the Diigo community!

Best,

Maggie Tsai
co-founder
Diigo

Hi Mike,

It's very strange and sorry to hear the trouble that you're experiencing. We're perplexed. Shortly after Diigo V3's launch, thought we already have taken user feedback immediately, and properly re-designed the find / invite friend interface with both a "clear all / select all" checkbox, and even once one wishes to send invite by clicking "Add to friends" button, there will also be another confirmation pop-up box to reminder user to confirm their action:

Please see:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3181/2721665398_...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2721664212_...

This kind of confirmation pop-up reminder also appears at registration and invitation area.

Please kindly advise where you have experienced the difficulty (ie. auto-sending invites.) In case there be any oversight on our part, we will also appreciate knowing, so that we can take immediate attention.

Diigo is a responsible company where we try to embrace and be quite responsive to our community users feedback. It's our sincere desire to create a valuable knowledge sharing community designed with productivity and collaboration in mind.

We hope you wouldn't mind assisting us to identify the issue, so that we can continue making diigo better and better, and hope we can welcome you back to the community!

Best,

Maggie Tsai
co-founder
diigo

Wade,

Thanks for a great post -glad that you found Diigo useful. The next generation Diigo V3.0 just launched - lots more new goodies - love to invite you to explore and perhaps even form a mortgage group to share good mortgage related resources with others!

Best,

Maggie

Check this out: we have created a WebSlides for all the presenting companies at this conference and their alexa traffic charts. http://slides.diigo.com/list/techdude/demofall2...

Playing it allow you to quickly visit all the companies and see their latest Alexa ratings. Not just live webpages, note that you can annotate on those pages on the fly as well! Wouldn't it be fun to use this to quickly check which company has generated the most buzz after the conference :-)

Thanks for your prompt coverage of Diigo.

Check this out: we have created a WebSlides for all the presenting companies at this conference and their alexa traffic charts. http://slides.diigo.com/list/techdude/demofall2...

Playing it allow you to quickly visit all the companies and see their latest Alexa ratings. Not just live webpages, note that you can annotate on those pages on the fly as well! Wouldn't it be fun to use this to quickly check which company has generated the most buzz after the conference :-)

Check out this interactive WebSlides for TechCrunch40

http://slides.diigo.com/list/techieme/tech_crun...

you may also want to check out diigo.com. It features tagging and group collaboration, on top of web annotation

Thanks for a great review! Lots more to come :-)