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Librarian of the Internet: The Language of 'Diigo'

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:15:27 -0000

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It seems as though every day I discover new search engines, bookmarking tools other Web applications that are intended to simplify the cluttered and overwhelming task of conducting Internet research. But let’s face it, most of these resources sound great in theory, but prove less effective in practice. Yet once in awhile I come across a tool that is inviting, intuitive and actually does what its mission statement says it will. Diigo is this type of tool.

The catchy, quintessentially Web 2.0 name reads like a word from some obscure foreign language, but is actually an acronym for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other Stuff.” Though many enter the world of Diigo in a social networking frame of mind, the networking aspect is the core of the tool and only scratches the surface of Diigo’s capabilities.

For teachers, a useful feature is the “watchlist,” which enables you to know what’s going on across the network through specific tags, for example “education” tags. The social annotation feature is the best way to collect and share online information from anywhere, and you can write about that information with the blogging feature!

The first characteristic I look for in any tool designed to enhance productivity is usability; will using this save me time and effort? Diigo passes the “usefulness test” with flying colors. Plus, it has all of the information that’s important to you and allows you to share it with others educators. Perhaps this is what the author of the blog I’m Not Actually a Geek meant when he said, “It has changed the scope of what it means to be social.”

Tags: diigo review

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MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms: Lectures 1 and 2 - good coders code, great reuse

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:59:50 -0000

Tags: algorithms video

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Might Diigo be your research tool?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:04:10 -0000

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All professionals do research. It’s an integral part of our daily lives. Until recently, attempting to research, collate and then possibly re-use material has been pretty darned difficult. Even with things like searchable tax libraries, there’s still the problem of marshaling resources, especially in team situations, unless you are prepared to pay a significant premium. Enter Diigo

initially as a replacement for the delicious bookmarking service. Bookmarks allow me to pass on more content with short comments, effectively inviting the reader to read for themselves by clicking on third party links.

Diigo provides much the same capability but a whole lot more. Like delicious, Diigo allow me to share bookmarks with others who count me as ‘friends’ or with ‘groups’ but it also allows me to highlight stories and organize them for public or private consumption or with named people.

My ability to not only collate but also distribute content in a flexible manner gives me a much better experience within a single application. It also more useful in a social context. I can for instance tag posts that could be distributed to another blog. This means that if I’m a small practitioner partner or manager working on say tax, M&A and business advice, I can easily organize content that could be useful for a multitude of purposes.

I’m not usually a fan of browser sidebars but ever since I discovered Diigo, I keep its sidebar open. Why? Because I have a private list of logins for all the sites to which I contribute or to which I need access in a private list that I can access with a single click. That’s a huge convenience for me.

But then I see regular upgrades, bug fixes and an active community piling in with suggestions. That all speaks to a service that is going places. It may not have the early mover advantage of delicious, but it is a whole lot better.

Tags: diigo review

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Aug 17 ~ Olympics News Roundup

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:37:00 -0000

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Phelps wins number eight; Torres wins two silvers; upsets in women's gymnastics; Nadal, Dementieva, Williams sister win tennis golds; Jamaica sweeps women's 100-meters; Constantina Tomescu wins women's marathon; U.S. softball and basketball continue to roll; U.S. men's saber team falls in final; Swedish wrestler stripped of medal.

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Aug 16 ~ Olympics News Roundup

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:36:32 -0000

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Phelps wins seventh gold; Bolt is World's Fastest Man; U.S. men's basketball routs Spain; Blake loses bronze, Federer wins doubles gold; U.S. baseball and softball win; U.S. men's water polo pulls stunning upset; McCutcheon returns as U.S. men's volleyball wins.

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Lakeside fun in Tahoe, California - SmarterTravel.com

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:28:58 -0000

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On the California side of Lake Tahoe, my favorite place to picnic is on the grassy hill between the Hellman-Ehrman Mansion and the shore of the lake at Ed Z'berg-Sugar Pine Point State Park. Before you go, stop at the PDQ Market in nearby Tahoma for one of their giant (two people can easily share one) and delicious sandwiches. After lunch, stroll down to the dock, take a swim, tour the historic house, or just pull up a rocking chair on the mansion's back porch and enjoy the view of the lake.

Northstar has outdoor movie nights throughout the summer. And, other ski resorts have more summer events and activities.

Tags: tahoe

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Michael Phelps: Life in the fast lane - The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:14:50 -0000

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Lake Tahoe and Carson City cruises and carriage rides tickets

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:54:20 -0000

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magical Thunderbird Lodge Historic Site

Tags: tahoe

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Thunderbird Lodge Historic Site - Tours and Events

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:52:42 -0000

1-800-GO-TAHOE (1-800-468-2463)
12:30 2pm
$19 $39

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Grover Hot Springs State park

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:25:41 -0000

Tags: hotspring

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Getaway in the 'California Alps' | www.rgj.com | Reno Gazette-Journal

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:23:41 -0000

Grover Hot Springs State Park

3415 hotspring rd. Markleeville, ca 96120
530-694-2249

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5,900 feet elevation on the east side of the Sierra Nevada in Alpine County, Calif.

Tags: camp outdoor hotspring tahoe

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奧運開幕式幕後故事　張藝謀兩萬言解密

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:45:19 -0000

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你能隱隱地感覺到，老外認為我們的表演好，這是肯定的，畢竟准備了這麼長時間。讓他們驚喜的是看到了我們另外一種面貌，浪漫和夢幻，現代感的夢幻和浪漫，盡管表現的是古老中國的許多文化遺產。其實世界性也就在這裡出現了，就是人性、世界性和包容性，一個民族所謂的自信，我覺得是體現在這些方面。

實際上所謂“世界文化”，那時候只是注重國際性、包容性，有點像現在實現的這一部分。現在的開幕式，我們一直也在強調這種感覺，比如夢幻和浪漫的風格，我就有自己的看法，一個民族它自信了，才會夢幻和浪漫。通常夢幻和浪漫，都覺得是法國人，中華民族給人家的感覺總是很嚴肅的、很拘謹的、很壓抑的……其實我覺得夢幻和浪漫的風格，對民族的形象有很大提升，我們不是他們想象中的中國人。

Tags: olympics opening celemony

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Aug 15 ~ Today’s Olympics News Roundup

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:40:27 -0000

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Phelps earns sixth gold; American gymnasts Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson win all-around gold and silver; American men finish first and second in backstroke; track and field kicks off; U.S. softball wins two; men's baseball loses in extra innings; Blake falls in tennis semi.

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Grazr - Gather Feeds, Create Streams, Publish Widgets

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:27:16 -0000

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Merge and filter multiple feeds into a single stream

Tags: web2.0 feeds rss widget aggregator

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Aug 14 ~ Today’s Olympics News Roundup

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:13:04 -0000

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Yang Wei nails all-around gymnastics gold in style; freestyle swimming rematch goes to France; Federer upset by Blake; Williams sisters both lose; U.S. beach volleyball continues to dominate; baseball and softball disrupted by rain; Indian hero Bindra says gun was tampered with.

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PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:11:04 -0000

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Diigo on the map :-) posted by maggie_diigo

The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate.

Conversations are taking place with or without you and this map will help you visualize the potential extent and pervasiveness of the online conversations that can impact and influence your business and brand.

Tags: socialmedia conversation prism solis PR

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The Conversation Prism on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:03:14 -0000

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6 Reasons Diigo is Better Than Delicious | Get A New Browser

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:03:40 -0000

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But honestly, even with their latest release - they have stopped innovating.

I checked out Diigo on the recommendation of Mike Fruchter sometime ago via FriendFeed. Since signing up I hadn’t really used it. But, the latest update to delicious broke my Daily Digest series - which was the final straw. And since Diigo allows you to import from Delicious, there really is no switching costs for me. That being said I have been extremely happy with my Diigo experience.

Here are six reasons Diigo is better than Delicious

1. It’s more social
Diigo has an extra level of social networking that Delicious does not provide - at least not in a usable manner. You can connect with people that have similar interests based on what you tag.

2. Annotations
The annotations feature is very cool. When you bookmark something, you can highlight notable sections to refer to later. And any other Diigo users can see your highlights when they visit the page if they have the toolbar installed.

3. Superior UI and Experience
Aside from all the snazzy features, the core “bookmarks” interface is much better than that of delicious - offering many additional features and better organization.

4. Microblogging
The microblogging feature in delicious never got a chance. This is the “daily post” feature that basically posts a digest to your blog of all the bookmarks you have saved over X amount of time. Delicious always had it as an “experimental feature”, for 3 years. Diigo does it so much better, allowing you to post only specific tags to your blog as well as providing more customization features.

5. Discovery
Now, this is something that delicious did fairly well but is pretty much a product of its large community. But Diigo does a great job at it too, allowing you discover what’s hot across the network but also within a group of friends. It also has a “watchlist” feature that allows you to keep tabs on certain tags in the network. And last, it shows you a river of bookmarks from your network - with a neat tag cloud to see what your community is tagging the most.

6. Better Toolbox
You can import, export. There are widgets, linkrolls, and tagrolls. They offer several ways to interact with the service - through context menu, toolbars, bookmarklets. There’s a Facebook app. You can “save elsewhere” too. So, if you still want to post stuff to delicious (let’s say you have a great community there), you can set that up. What this does is posts your new bookmarks to the other services whenever you post them to Diigo.

All in all Diigo wins hands down.

So ditch delicious, sign up, and join me.

Tags: diigo review

Posted by: maggie_diigo

Record by phone with Gabcast.com

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:51:45 -0000

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Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.

Tags: podcast phone

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Microsoft Silverlight Product Profile

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:42:04 -0000

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Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering media experiences and interactive applications for the Web.

Tags: silverlight browser microsoft

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Maggie_diigo's Favorite Links from Diigo

Librarian of the Internet: The Language of 'Diigo'

MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms: Lectures 1 and 2 - good coders code, great reuse

Might Diigo be your research tool?

Aug 17 ~ Olympics News Roundup

Aug 16 ~ Olympics News Roundup

Lakeside fun in Tahoe, California - SmarterTravel.com

Michael Phelps: Life in the fast lane - The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Lake Tahoe and Carson City cruises and carriage rides tickets

Thunderbird Lodge Historic Site - Tours and Events

Grover Hot Springs State park

Getaway in the 'California Alps' | www.rgj.com | Reno Gazette-Journal

奧運開幕式幕後故事 張藝謀兩萬言解密

Aug 15 ~ Today’s Olympics News Roundup

Grazr - Gather Feeds, Create Streams, Publish Widgets

Aug 14 ~ Today’s Olympics News Roundup

PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism

The Conversation Prism on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

6 Reasons Diigo is Better Than Delicious | Get A New Browser

Record by phone with Gabcast.com

Microsoft Silverlight Product Profile

奧運開幕式幕後故事　張藝謀兩萬言解密