Best Bytes: Diigo – Research, Bookmark, Share, Collaborate
Posted on January 3, 2011 by ebrennan | 1 Comment
Submitted by Emily Brennan, USC
Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows users to bookmark and organize webpages, screenshots, pictures and documents. Users can then highlight and annotate any part of that page. These pages (with highlights and annotations) can be kept private, shared with a Diigo group, or forwarded as a link. You can tag each page for easy organization and retrieval, and may create lists of tagged pages.
Diigo is not only a valuable tool to collect and organize your own bookmarks, but it is extremely useful for groups as well. Like Facebook and Twitter, Diigo Networks allows you to “follow” people to see their bookmarks. Diigo Groups provides a collaborative space for group members to share bookmarks, highlights, sticky notes, and forum. Search existing groups or create your own.
Install the bookmarklet or customizable toolbar to facilitate saving, organizing, highlighting, and searching your bookmarks.
Additional valuable features on the free version include:
- * Read later: mark bookmarks as read later
- * Meta info search: search title, tags, highlights, description
- * Cached pages (5 per month): get cached page of your bookmark
- * Screen capture and annotation (5 per month): capture and annotate your screen
- * Save image from a webpage (5 per month): collect pictures from any webpage and store it permanently in your account
- * Save favorite tweets: save your favorite tweets to your Diigo library
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Not only is content available from your mobile phone, but there are additional apps to complement Diigo, such as the Diigo offline reader for iPhone and Diigo Power Note for Android.
If you are currently using Delicious as your social bookmarking site, simply import your Delicious bookmarks to Diigo. Try Diigo today!
Posted 1/3/11
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January 4th, 2011 @ 11:41 am
Many thanks, Emily!