Webtwo Dozent's List: Videos

• April 30, 2008
• “Making social bookmarking truly social”Faced with the daunting task of researching and annotating huge documents on the web, A few years ago Dr. Wade Ren and Maggie Tsai out-surfed the capabilities of browser bookmark features and online bookmarking services. If you have a long web document with only a few widely spaced relevant paragraphs what do you do?
• You print it out, or copy to a document and print then get out the old highlighter pen. Then you fax it, or scan it and send it along, and soon you have a problem. A problem that, for Ren and Tsai, turned into the opportunity to create a new social bookmarking service
• As we discussed in a previous post, and as Dr. Ren reiterated, Diigo is like del.icio.us on steroids. It takes bookmarking functionality and extends it with forum, blog and messaging features. If you take the time to annotate a page, leave sticky notes, multiple and lengthy comments, and highlight key text on the page, you can then view and forward all the relevant information w/o having to go to the page, or see other public comments and highlights and interact with other Diigo users.
• compatibility with del.icio.us, ma.gnolia and Simpy
• Diigo is embracing the open everything web 2.0 spirit and making a super useful community oriented tool.
• It’s great meeting leaders in web development who live right here in Reno!

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• Diigo is an integrated suite of online research and social tools that transforms the Web into a writable, participatory media. Diigo enables seamless bookmarking, highlighting, clipping, sharing, discussions and retrieval of information to deliver a new level of productivity
• Diigo meets the needs of individuals and work groups consuming increasing amounts of information online. Diigo adopts a “freemium” model, with the fee-based premium service targeting group-based collaborative research. The Web-based collaboration services market alone is expected to exceed $2.5 billion by 2010, according to Frost & Sullivan.
• mistake. Diigo’s highlighting, bookmarking and site sharing tools are a subset of features in a rich collaborative application that puts information discovery and the writable Web at the center of discussions among colleagues, friends and like-minded people. Diigo represents a move to maturity in the Web 2.0; it is a business tool, leveraging social models to deliver real value to its users.

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