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I think my real addiction to the internet started with social bookmarking and since I signed up for Diigo my browsing experience has enriched everyday.

Diigo turned me geekier than ever. It has brought social bookmarking to a whole new level, and is clearly being emulated by the web giants like Google. Have you tried the Sidewiki on Google toolbar? It’s ditto to the Diigo sidebar. However, Diigo sidebar has some edge over Sidewiki with support for searching your library of bookmarks and option to view annotations for a page different than the current URL.

Goo.gl works only with Google applications, where it shortens URLs for Google's Feedburner and from the Google browser toolbar. The service cannot be accessed directly by users from a browser.

Entering the goo.gl address calls up the following:

"Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends."

People share a lot of links online," wrote Googlers Muthu Muthusrinivasan, Ben D'Angelo, and Devin Mullins. "This is particularly true as microblogging services such as Twitter have grown in popularity.