Vincent Tsao's List: diigo v3 review

• Despite my best efforts, my bookmarks had gotten out of control. Something had to be done.

   

  

   

  That’s when I came across my new favorite tool. It’s called Diigo, and I use it every day. Diigo allows you to highlight and save blog articles. Pre-Diigo, I would bookmark an article, and when I wanted to reference it, I would have to read the entire article again to get to the part I wanted. Now I highlight and bookmark the article, and when I want to access that information, I go straight to what I need. Diigo even allows you to put sticky notes directly onto blog posts and articles. You can add your own comments so that you know why the heck you saved and highlighted the article in the first place. The highlight and annotate options are particularly helpful if you do research prior to writing articles.
• You can even highlight a portion of an article, click “send,” and email just that snippet to a colleague or friend. The emailed snippet contains a link so that the recipient can access the original source if they want more information after reading the blurb. You can also add your own comments when emailing snippets.

• Last week I asked if anyone knew of some code that would allow me to directly use WordPress to digest the daily links I collect rather than use del.icio.us as the middleman. Though it is certainly technically possible, there doesn’t seem to be a ready made solution. Sam Hiser suggested that I check out Diigo. I like it so much that I deleted my del.icio.us account.

• 标题中提到的三个网站，其中最重要的是diigo,因为它是唯一将delicous的共享书签推进到社会性注释的网站， 前者让用户养成了分享的习惯，后者让人们自由的发表意见，给你所见的一切网页添加任意多的注释，摘要，感想等等，这是一个决定性的飞跃
• diigo表面看主流的应用是用于资料的搜集，研究，汇总，但它最本质的创新是使得人们可以自由的针对所见的任何网页上任何一个地方的文字发表意见
• diigo的这个功能使得网页真正变为“可写”的，这正是web2.0要实现的一个最基本的特征，那就是“读写网”
• diigo最大限度的缩短了“我看到”和“我说出”之间的距离， 这是我说它是web2.0发展过程中最大亮点的原因

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• 在我的印象中，Diigo V3像是一瞬间出现在每个人的视线里，很多人莫名，一个网摘为何可以只用一次升级在2.0界大红大紫，最让人不解的是，对于网摘这种“迁移成本”极高的应用模式，也可以在极短的时间内国内外同类产品曾经积累数年的大批忠实用户主动“投怀送抱”。
• diigo的本次升级将自身的定位从以“高亮”为主推功能的社会化书签网站，转变成“个人的知识管理库”以及“团队信息写作共享平台”，一切功能设计都将 围绕这两点展开。
• 社会性网摘，集体智慧的舞台。Diigo的Social BOOKMARK Service的属性决定了它的GROUP必然会与其他社区网站的组群服务有所区别，从建立第一个小组到现在的第n个小组整个过程可以慢慢体会到diigo group的妙用
• 当任何人可以推荐bookmarks到group可能很多人会顾虑会有spam，会有大量冗余信息，担心集体的智慧被大水淹没。Diigo考虑到了这点， 并且也考虑到不应将监督和管理的工作强加给用户，继而取消了传统创建者、管理员角色的设定，转而以dig的形式让所有人参与信息过滤。通过dig排行，将 集体的智慧加以升华，使diigo group真正实现知识收集、分享、交换的平台
• 自此diigo既实现了个人的自管理，又借助集体的智慧、信息的协作整理实现了强大且便于查找的知识宝库

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• Picking up where del.icio.us fell down is Diigo.  They have received a little buzz recently for their V3 beta release.  It is a very impressive application.  To call Diigo a social bookmarking site would be to limit it to a box that it has grown beyond.
• Diigo goes beyond all of that.  You can comment on links, thus enabling conversation.  This is sorely missing from del.icio.us and it is weakly implemented in Mag.nolia.  You can schedule a link post to your blog or simply post a link directly.
• Though most will likely give a collective groan to a new bookmarking site, if you aren’t using Diigo you might as well be living in a web 1.0 world.
• Diigo does have a couple items I would like to see worked out.  First of all they didn’t get the memo that we have reached the mobile tipping point.  I would love to see an iPhone version of this so I can use it on the go.  Where is the API?  How can you have a service in today’s market place without an API.  Finally, trackbacks.  Let me carry the conversation back if I can.  So many social sites don’t implement this and it seems vital to enabling a conversation.
• I know all the A-listers have glazed eyes over friendfeed right now, but they are really missing out if they don’t try Diigo.

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• “Does the innovation actually do anything for us?” I think I have tested and reviewed over 300 startups in the last couple of years, and I can honestly say that most of this innovation has been directed at entertainment or rather useless “cuteness”. Diigo as a tool, could be viewed as a much more serious innovation by comparison.
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• The “community” buzz word has really invaded our Web consciousness these days, but the actual effectiveness and potential productivity of these communities is what should really be stressed. Diigo’s community, in using all the function of Diigo’s innovation and refinements, has the ability to help build relationships based around perhaps our greatest asset – knowledge. Diigo’s latest release of Version 3 illustrates the proper metamorphosis of a truly valuable community, or content and data reflected on a growing and engaged set of people. The innovators developed a way to collect and store knowledge efficiently, and then refined the platform to foster collaboration in learning.
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• Beyond Bookmarks
• Diigo’s Collaborative Research Platform
• Social Content Site
• The Power of Suggestion
• Version 3 has more than 100 refinements to help users more efficiently interact with knowledge and data

• Yes, Diigo is far more useful than even I realized. I don’t usually rant over startups any more, but the best should get recognition.

   

  Always,

   

  Phil

• Nice intro, Phil!

   

  Just checked out their site, and I think Diigo organizes things in a much more elegant way and at the same time does more for users than most average social site by aggregating and utilizing information from everyone by everyone for everyone.

   

  Rock on, Diigo!

• Hi guys, thanks! Well, Diigo has really sold itself and has not been overly hyped by blogdom. I became aware of them after reviewing their beta some time back. A truly excellent startup, I use it all the time too.

   

  Always,
   Phil

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• Diigo是我现用的书签站，它的内容摘抄保存是我最喜欢的功能

  • 这也是diigo 的key feature: "Highlight and Share the Web!"
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• 反正觉得Diigo的江湖地位与其能力不太相称
• 变化巨大，功能增加甚多，原本的Bookmark站，已经全方位、立体升为SNS站。

  • 原力与diigo同在
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• 当然，对我来说，这些SNS的元素基本没有意义——所有的SNS网站对我都没有意义，工具网站就是工具网站，Diigo的这次升级我所关注的只是书签管理部分——想来开发组会失望了

  • "friend's boomarks" 和"My watch list" 会让你改变想法哦，其中friends bookmarks 还能share private bookmark, 与自己‘臭味相投’的朋友越多，bookmark的来源和质量就越多，越好
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• 核心功能都在，也或多或少有所增强，有些功能搞的也相当不错。浏览器工具条全面升级，适用现有的功能（可惜对我来说还是只用到原来几个按钮而已），例如添加书签（现在可以同时发送到Twitter了）、一键添加书签、评论等

  • 虽然在中国大伙很讨厌'插件'之类的玩意，但是还是强烈推荐你玩下diigo的toolbar，safari现在倒是只能玩diigolet

  • diigo 的宣传片里说'You are what you annotated', recommended bookmarks也横空出世了
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• 相比原来，有一点不爽的是，添加书签页面的tag不能选择了，原来是可以在下拉列表中选的，现在只能输入，虽然有提示，不过那么多的Tag，哪能记得住呢

  • auto-suggestion 功能可能比下拉选择体验更好哦，另外还提供了recommened tags，可以‘一键’点击选择
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• 还有一个很大的改变就是，Diigo Toolbar提供了侧边栏功能。这个相当不错，太方便了，太方便了，比原来工具栏上的一个小小的下拉按钮可好用多了

  • 这个侧栏我也是最喜欢的，可以就在浏览器端按照tag从服务器filter出自己的bookmark,另外‘this URL’下，还可以看到有哪些diigoer也来过这个页面（或站点）,看到大家的comments，发现与自己兴趣相投的朋友
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• 最后说个问题，使用过程中发现，Diigo的Lists功能好像不能自动将相关tag的书签纳入自己的列表，每次都得手工选择，这个就不爽了。

  • 倒是个不错的想法，你也可以到my bookmarks下按照tag filter bookmark，将它们批量add to list
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• 总体来说，这次Diigo的升级值得称道——不过如果能够分步实施就更理想了，也希望它能够顺利转型，毕竟是我喜欢的站点，能够长久存活（需要盈利不是）下去是我对它最大的期待了。

  • 顶一个～
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• This launch includes a completely new UI and code base, and over 100 new features. In addition to substantial improvements in its usability and power as a research tool, the new Diigo tightly integrates social networking with knowledge-sharing, making Diigo a pioneer in what may be called "social information networking.
• Bookmarking
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• Through this popup, your bookmark is saved to diigo, can be sent as a post to twitter, sent to your friends, tagged, etc.
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• What’s New

   

  1. People Like Me-
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• Sidebar-
  The diigo sidebar (accessible by clicking from the toolbar) lets you access all of your bookmarks wherever you are. No need to sign in at the diigo site to get your stuff. It’s right here in the browser.
• Group Voting and Tagging- Though I do not use diigo as a collaborative annotation and research tool, this release of diigo has new team research capabilities such as the ability for a team to vote on an item (digg style) and a Tag Dictionary, allowing all team members to agree on common tags for items.
• Social Browsing- While browsing the web, use the toolbar to see what people have said about the site you’re on. Through the same sidebar, you’re also able to see what other readers have bookmarked and/or commented on a page (by clicking the This URL link). In addition to showing which diigo users have bookmarked the page, you can see a list of users that have bookmarked any page on the site, and you can read their comments from the sidebar.
• Content Discovery- Diigo is starting to focus more on becoming a source of content by improving their recommendation and discovery functionality. Users can discover content through their friends and by diigo’s matching feature, which looks for content similar to your own bookmarking activity.
• Share Outside of diigo- Like the "Twitter This" box above, you can share your bookmarks with people outside of diigo. Currently the options are sending by email, adding to facebook, and sharing on twitter.

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• The highlight of the new version is recommendations. The new Diigo offers a number of social networking type features that in-and-of themselves aren't worth a lot to me, but if they can do some number crunching and recommend people and content that I may want to subscribe to - that's gold.

• Diigo is explicitly pitting itself against Delicious by stating: “in the battle field of social bookmarking 2.0, we believe only delicious and Diigo are still strong players, with Diigo clearly the leader in terms of features and innovations…People who have seen both Diigo 3.0 and delicious 2.0 also think that we are far ahead of delicious 2.0.” Sounds like Diigo’s trying to play David to Yahoo’s Goliath.

• One of the new features of Diigo 3.0 is collaborative research. Team members can bring together links they find across the Web for comments and annotation. There is tagging and sticky notes that the team can participate in to make the presentation stronger.
• The other major update is the addition of more social components. If you install the Diigo toolbar, as you browse the Web, you can see what others think of the page including comments, who bookmarked the page and what other similar sites and pages they have bookmarked. It's all about discovery and Diigo has done a great job in this area.

• This is a great and appropriate review of something that actually helps people! Diigo is actually much more than a bookmarking tool - it is a fantastic research tool and great for hooking up with people who are working on similar tasks.

   

  Always,
   Phil

• I have found Diigo to be the best bookmarking tool on the web, hands-down
• believe me, you have to give this new version a whirl, especially if you do any sort of collaborative work or if you blog or if you’re a researcher.

• For a great overview, see Social Bookmarking 2.0 — Diigo sets the standard for others to follow (bub.licio.us). That entry gives you the nuts-and-bolts of what Diigo does.

   

  An aspect I really appreciate (which isn’t stressed in the bub.licio.us article) is the control users have over whether or not to make a bookmark public, keep it private, or share it with others to a group. Another great feature is that users can make their annotations (the “sticky” notes) public, private, or shared to a group — and these settings are easy to change within a single bookmark, too.
• Diigo is quite simply fantastic! Congratulations to the whole team for bringing this to the web.

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• Diigo v3 places more emphasis on the social aspect of social bookmarking through merging ideas from several different sites together. For example, it takes annotating from Clipmarks, bookmarking from del.icio.us and a facility which suggests websites you may like based on your annotations from StumbleUpon.
• Diigo v3 has some unique features which I like. When you are on websites, you can view what other users have highlighted and annotated which is useful for group projects where collaboration is necessary. You can also join groups and communities and send private messages to other users. Another interesting feature is WebSlides which lets you view your bookmarks as a slideshow which is useful if you can’t always remember the name of the site but you can remember the way it looks!
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• So, some key points about Diigo 3:

   
   
  1. Easy to share annotations on certain websites; useful for collaboration
   
  2. Improved social features
   
  3. WebSlide browse through websites based on screenshots.
   
  4. Clipmarks is like cutting something out of a paper; Diigo is highlighting something out of one and annotating it!

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• I’ve been playing with it for a few weeks and, for my purposes, it offers a few nifty improvements.
• The new Diigo also offers spiffy social networking/recommendation functionality, but that’s not my bag, although it may be yours. Either way, there’s really no reason anyone should use the Yahoo’s stagnant Del.icio.us service anymore. Diigo’s much prettier and it runs faster too! Go import your Del.icio.us bookmarks today.

• Después de instalar la barra de Diigo para FireFox se abre un mundo de posibilidades:
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• Una de las nuevas funcionalidades es que puedes tener acceso a las personas que han marcado  la página que estás visitando y los comentarios que han hecho sobre la página.
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• Puedes también recomendar el enlace a otros, bloguear y enviarlo a tu cuenta en Twitter y Facebook.
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• Además, es posible marcar pasajes y añadir “sticky notes”:
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• Diigo también permite que puedes comentar las páginas con tus observaciones:
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