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A noticeable trend at Demo, according to Shipley, will be the move of
enterprise class tools to the small-to-medium business class
space. The conference will feature six new applications focused on
collaboration that can be accessed and used by individuals without requiring
the involvement of IT departments.

Diigo is going to be previewing
upcoming features to its Web collaboration service, which lets you meet
online, highlight, clip and annotate Web pages with sticky notes and make
slideshows out of the Web pages you visit.

"We're adding social components that connect people with knowledge and
knowledge to people," Maggie Tsai, vice president of marketing at Diigo, told .
RSS feeds and tags can be converted into a Diigo Web slide and the service
will let you search for people with similar interests based on their Web
site collections. Web slides and online discussion groups can be public,
limited to a specific group or totally private based on user preference.

Special preview: DEMOfall '07 highlights

Access to and the sharing of information is this year's theme with companies demonstrating tools for team collaboration, tracking
online information, information filtering, and a technology that is harder to explain than use: Turning the Web in a participatory
medium for bookmarking, clipping, and discussion sharing.

Diigo is both the name of the product and the company that turns a Web site into a "participatory" site, according to Wade
Ren, CEO and co-founder. "Diigo doesn't need enterprise adoption to work, but the more people who do adopt it, the better
it is," says Ren.

Diigo allows users to highlight portions of a Web site and add comments, using the design concept of a sticky note or a cartoon
bubble. The note is persistent, so next time the user opens the site, the note will be there. The tool is a browser plug-in
that can be downloaded and placed in the IE or Firefox tool bar. While wikis like Wikipedia make sets of pages writable and
editable, Diigo makes the entire Web a writable media, according to Ren.

By Chris Morrison 09.24.07

Diigo, will announce an information network that adds an entirely new dimension to the Web. The new Diigo network creates global communities around information, topics, and knowledge. These communities connect people through the content they collect, while also enabling people to discover and share information that matters to them with others in the network.

Diigo users have the ability to “write” on the Web, adding new layers on top of individual Web pages. Every sticky note and highlight added across the Web expands Diigo’s dedicated social information network, allowing users to discuss content directly on each page.

Diigo users can also now create or join groups. Diigo groups provide a forum for collaborative research and learning - connecting people with similar interests. Users can pool their findings through group bookmarks, highlights, and sticky notes. Researchers can also create private groups for sharing and collaboration among specific teams.

The center of influence and knowledge gathering, organization, and sharing is shifting from a centralized authority to the many individuals at the edge of the network. In this session, the following companies showed their solutions for these critical knowledge work tasks:



• Diigo, Inc.: We spoke with Diigo last week while they were preparing for DEMOfall. Diigo combines web highlighting, note-taking, organization and sharing in a very nice package. Enabled by adding a bookmarklet to your browser (all major flavors are supported), Diigo is adding the ability to collect your web clippings into an easily shared WebSlide presentation. There is a Groups feature that allows you to predefine a distribution list for sharing information and the interface is nicely AJAXed to provide drag-and-drop organization of content. Diigo also provides a social network dimension that allows you to search across the public collections shared by other Diigo users to find people with similar interests. You can search by tags or profiles and extend your network to include others who have displayed a similar are of interest to your own. Inviting friends you already have is all well and good but Diigo provides a way to discover new connections in the web clipping sphere.

Chris Shipley kicked off DEMOfall 07 in a major way, claiming that everything is in a state of 2.0. And, by 2.0 she simply inferred to the fact that technology is innovating and revolutionizing across every sector.

And after sitting through a day of DEMO presenters, so far it’s very clear that she’s absolutely right.

Diigo – I’m an active user of the del.icio.us social bookmarking service, but I’m frustrated by its limitations. A big one is that del.icio.us only provides a few characters with which to describe the pages I bookmark. I frequently run out of space trying to write a description.

Diigo is social bookmarking for serious researchers. Users of its toolbar can highlight and annotate passages on bookmarked Web pages. People can comment on each other’s bookmarked pages and highlights. Essentially, the service creates group discussion around Web content. Anyone with the Diigo toolbar can see other users’ annotations and sites that choose to implement the Diigo protocols can provide these capabilities even to non-Diigo users.

There are other innovatives features in this release, including a function that lets you create a PowerPoint-like slide show sequence using Web pages. I’m not sure I see much utility in that, but the highlighting feature alone could be enough to make me switch from del.icio.us.