Melanie Drouin's List: Diigo/Delicious

De la gestion de signets au social bookmarking : Delicious, Diigo, Zotero et quelques autres / Tony Faragasso. – Paris : ADBS Éditions, 2011. – 63 p. – (L’essentiel sur…, ISSN 1773-729X). – ISBN 978-2-84365-130-4 : 15 €

Del.icio.us: Known as the standard by which other social bookmarking sites are measured it has a strong community and a rich layer of content beyond that of other social bookmarking sites. Designed on the less-is-more philosophy, it has a rather plain but easy-to-use interface. Del.icio.us does not have the bells and whistles of some of the other social bookmarking sites, but being simple to use and having a strong community makes it one of the best choices for a new user.

 

Diigo: Diigo is an online bookmarking tool with a twist. Sometimes, merely saving a bunch of tagged Web sites to a list of favorites is not enough. Ever wanted to highlight one cool corner of a Web page? Do you wish you could scribble on various Web sites to collect recipes, plan a vacation, or write a big research paper, then share your notes? Diigo can help you do that.

 

You can import bookmarks en masse from Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Del.icio.us or add new bookmarks individually at the Diigo site. One of Diigo’s advantages is that you can add new bookmarks and tags simultaneously to Del.icio.us, Yahoo My Web, and elsewhere.

 

Diigo’s plain text interface is as simple as that of Del.icio.us, yet with an added functionality. For instance, Diigo let’s you select a bunch of bookmarks at once and change their settings: Del.icio.us does not. Unfortunately, Diigo can’t preview saved pages within the same pane the way Windows Live Favorites does.