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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.

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.”

Annotations are a broadly useful mechanism that can support a number
of document and database management applications:

• provide a trace of use
  
• third party commentary
  
• information sharing
  
• information filtering
  
• semantic labeling of document content
  
• enhanced search
  

But it continues to be hard to publish to the web. If better tools
are provided to information consumers then readers will be able to add
commentary, make new connections, interpret content, and otherwise
promote an accretion of both structure and content on the web. This
process will add new semantics to the web and this new information
will be the source for new approaches to searching and filtering of
information.

just wondered if anyone out there could either get the official diigo toolbar for IE working with maxthon (doesn't seem to show up anywhere) - or coding sth akin to the great delicious plugin that already exists ..?

for those not in the know, i strongly recommend you check out diigo - looks like a real keeper (as long as i can get it working in maxthon ).

ps diigo is a new (invite only) "social annotation & bookmarking" website.

that tracked back to me. The point is true anough, I suppose, but I think the network effect of many technologies is overrated - there is no end to the effort many early adopters will make to be the earliest to adopt).

You just need to get a few things squared away and then you're off! To begin