Joel's Favorite Links on review from Diigo

ScanR: Turn your camera phone into a scanner

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:42:24 -0000

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Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net : Diigo - Invasion of the Bookmark Snatchers

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:00:35 -0000

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Somehow, I find myself trusting Diigo more than Facebook, although you can connect to Facebook via Diigo. What's also present is the potential for "Diigo-spam." Ok, I've spammed everyone in my addressbook. I can't remember the last time I did it, but I hope that if you received an email via Diigo from me, you'll jump in and give this a try. If you don't want to, hit delete. Do I think Diigo is that powerful a tool? Well, yes. It offers something Delicious doesn't--groups, and a base of operations that interfaces with other tools. If I could share information using Diigo, ohmygosh, one ring to rule them all.

One of the other aspects of Diigo I liked was that the Diigo crew is hopping to improve things. Importing bookmarks from Delicious API wasn't working well (i had to try 3-4 times), so they came up with an alternative way to accomplish the import. Dean Shareski complained about the interface, and they re-did the user interface. There's also talk of creating an education (student) friendly Diigo....

Easy group subscription - I wish there was a URL I could share with people. They click on it, and bam, if they have a Diigo account, they're subscribed. If they lack an account, it walks them through the process then makes sure to hook them up with the group. I just don't see how to do it easily now.

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Social Bookmarking Soulmates at WRT: Writer Response Theory

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:03:04 -0000

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During the assignment, students are at first skeptical that they will find anyone with similar interest. Usually it is not till they find a “Gem,” or exciting link, through someone else’s tags that they see the value in the exercise. More importantly, the assignment hammers home the ways in which social bookmarking can help them become part of a network of scholars, collaborating albeit indirectly at times.
After a few weeks of my stressing the importance of effective tagging and annotation, however, students are often a bit disappointed with the disorder they see in the tags of others. I remind them, “That’s right. Stay off the streets. It’s two clicks from chaos out there.”

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谢文、keso、麦田新年对话：社会化网络和web2.0（上）-麦田 - 新浪BLOG

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:20:26 -0000

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How Facebook could crush MySpace, Yahoo!, and Google. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:14:43 -0000

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If Facebook does decide to become an all-encompassing portal, it would be a bit late to the party. Customizable homepages like My Yahoo! and iGoogle already let you cram your favorite Web stuff onto a single page; there's also the trendy start-up NetVibes, which Slate's Reihan Salam called "the ultimate mashup." But a Facebook homepage would have a huge intrinsic advantage: The social network is already built in. Sure, the other portals incorporate Gmail and BBC headlines and YouTube searches and podcast directories. By adding a social context to all of this content, however, Facebook would immediately trump its main competition. With Facebook's News Feed, it's elementary to see when your friends sign up for a new product or service. That means the best add-ons become viral instantly—Platform's biggest success story so far, a music sharing app called iLike, started growing at the rate of 200,000 users a day.

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25 Web Sites to Watch - Yahoo! News

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:02:45 -0000

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Clip elements of your favorite Web pages, and save them to your Clipmarks profile.The Internet is the best research tool in existence. That's the good news--and the bad news. Though finding information online is easy, keeping track of it all can be tough. Most people end up copying and pasting information from Web sites, printing it out, or bookmarking pages--with no good way to keep it all organized or find what they want fast.

Clipmarks solves the problem neatly by installing a toolbar that hitches on to Internet Explorer or Firefox. As you surf the Web, use the Clipmarks toolbar to clip and save sections of a page--text, graphics, and even YouTube videos. Clipping something automatically archives it under your Clipmarks profile, though you can also save it directly to your blog or send it via e-mail. You can even share your clip collections, or look at archives that other users have assembled.

Squidoo makes it easy to create (or look for) Web pages that reflect your passions.Got an obsession or special passion you want to convey to the world? Squidoo is your ticket. Using the site's simple tools, you can build a "lens" (aka, a Web page) that includes information on any topic that's close to your heart, whether it's cats or Kafka.

A lens can be quite different from a blog. With lenses, you share links to resources, book recommendations, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, eBay auction items, and other cool Web content related to a single subject. Even if you don't build your own lens, the site is worth visiting to see what others have done. You can learn a lot more about lemonade or laptop bags than you ever thought possible.

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Predictions for a Web 2.0 social experience

Thu, 10 May 2007 12:11:56 -0000

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《Business 2.0》评出2007年25大网络新锐 - DoNews.com

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:13:36 -0000

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The Social Bookmarking Faceoff

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:33:46 -0000

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» WebOS market review | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:30:59 -0000

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d2r: a review of blogging APIs

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:09:20 -0000

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Solo Technology » Blog Archive » Big Netvibes changes

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:12:16 -0000

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- Web 2.0 Central: Web2.0, Ajax, Beta, Alpha, Startup, Companies

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:34 -0000

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互联网与点击率、虚拟与真实---无聊布棉的blog

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:33 -0000

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A VC: Ask My Friends

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:33 -0000

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This is going to be BIG!

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:33 -0000

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TV Is Dead. Long Live TV! Part One

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:31 -0000

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Fact is, the dead medium formerly known as television is on a time-shifting comeback. It's coming back in a different form, on a smaller screen, and courtesy of existing new content creators.

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digg vs dot

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:26 -0000

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digg vs dot is a simple website that was put together to highlight the act of crossposting articles among two very popular sites, digg.com and Slashdot.org. posted by joel

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Web Site Review by PC Magazine: del.icio.us

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:12 -0000

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The Morning News - Lone Star Statements, by Matthew Baldwin

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:22:12 -0000

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The following are excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present. Some entries have been edited.

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