Marlene Harbart's List: Diigo Site and Related Information

• Diigo - Improving how we find, share, and save information

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  7. Yahoo  Answers

  When you're stumped about something, asking a knowledgeable  person can cut to the chase better than a Google query. But what if there are no  experts on, say, epiphytes in your circle of friends? Pose that question about  rare orchids to Yahoo Answers, and you're sure to find a green thumb among the  tens of millions of users. Among rival social search sites, we  found the widest array of explanations on the broadest range of subjects at  Yahoo Answers. However, the site can be cluttered by amateurs, so be patient. Read  review
• How helpful is it to bookmark a Web site if you need  only one sentence from that 3,000-word article? Diigo is a free bookmarking  service that lets you do what we wish Yahoo's Del.icio.us would:  highlight text and comment on Web pages. Diigo caches each site so that you can  search within text, not just the topic tags. And you won't have to leave the  Del.icio.us community, since Diigo lets you save bookmarks simultaneously in  both places. Read review
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  5. Google  Scholar beta

  Google Scholar searches journals in the arts and  humanities, business, science, medicine, and mathematics. It turns up abstracts  and sometimes full articles that are indispensable for academic and professional  research and points to libraries that keep the hard copies. One downside:  Scholar doesn't let you subscribe to newsfeeds for your search queries, while  rival Windows Live  Academic beta does. So far, however, Scholar retrieves more content. Read  editors' take

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• Diigo is the most useful tool for take-it-with-you research. It not only  organizes and tags bookmarks, it also lets you mark up Web pages as you would a  paperback book--with sticky notes, highlights, and comments--then share those  notes with others.

• Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative  research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social  content site on the other.
• highlight portions of web pages
• just what you would expect if you highlighted or wrote on a  book!
• all the information -- highlighted paragraphs, sticky notes, and the original  url -- are saved on Diigo servers, creating your personal digest of the web,  your own collection of highlights from the web - ones that are meaningful to  you! You can easily search, access, sort and share this collection from any PC  or even iphone.
• you are what you annotate
• Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet  Information, Groups and Other stuff."
• Diigo is a Social Information Network (SIN).

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• Diigo is a browser plugin that functions as a web  highlighter, sticky  notes,  social bookmarking tool, and a social information network rolled into  one.
• the knowledge sharing part of Diigo lets you share and discuss your findings  with any available public or private groups.