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Diigo Learning Networks Is Very FriendFeed

by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 29, 2009

Diigo Learning Networks is a new feature in the latest release that is very much like FriendFeed. It’s basically a real-time stream of content that your network is tagging in Diigo. Beyond that you have similar features such as like, preview, and comment.

Diigo Network

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Diigo Version 4 Released

by Andy Brudtkuhl on September 29, 2009

Diigo 4I use Diigo every day and love it. It’s more than a social bookmarking tool – it’s a research, community, and content distribution tool as well. I’ve been in on the private alpha phase for Diigo 4 for some months now and am happy to see their announcement and blog post.

Sometime soon I’ll share my Diigo workflow with you but for now, check out the new features.

New features include:

1. New UI
Cleaner look and better usability.

2. Snapshots

“The established approach to bookmarking is complemented by Diigo’s version 4′s new archiving capability to capture and archive entire web pages — even dynamic and password-protected content”

3. Improved Search
The new search is very powerful. You can search by tags and notes – but now you can search by full text!

4. Real-Time Learning Networks
FriendFeed style network where you can like, save, and comment in real time as people in your network bookmark items. This is a HUGE feature and one of my favorites in 4.0 release.

Diigo Network

5. Group Enhancements
Improved group support for collaboration. I love their group support and have been using it for a long time for our Web Strategy Blog for a community platform.

6. iPhone App
Which of course is waiting for approval from the App Store. The iPhone app lets users access their Diigo libraries and download stuff for offline browsing.

Much Much More

Not a Diigo user? Take the tour!

Are you a Diigo user? You should friend me up!

Got questions or comments? Let us know in the comments!

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9 Web Services I Use Every Day

by Andy Brudtkuhl on May 6, 2009

  1. Diigo – Research, Bookmarks, Community, Syndication, Archive
  2. Twitter – Community, Syndication, Research, Content Discovery
  3. FriendFeed – Content Discovery, Community, Syndication, Filters
  4. Meebo – Instant Messaging
  5. Feedly – Content Discovery
  6. Google Reader – Research, Biz Intelligence, Information, News
  7. Gmail – Email, Research, Archive, Filters
  8. Google Calendar – Track and Plan Stuff
  9. Bit.ly – URL Shortener, Analytics

What web services do you use every day? Let us know in the comments!

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Diigo Groups is Future of Social Bookmarking

by Andy Brudtkuhl on November 12, 2008

I’ve been loving Diigo since I ditched Delicious a few months ago. They are constantly adding awesome features and today I stumbled on the groups feature. Basically it allows you to create a group of like-minded users (it can be public or private) to share links, comments and it has a forum baked right in.

This is HUGE… It allows you to create micro communities and adds much greater value to “social” bookmarking. You can be a part of multiple groups – which are often topical in nature. There are all kinds of different options that allow you to discuss bookmarks in comment threads and in a forum. There are RSS feeds for each group – so you don’t even have to join one to get some benefit. And there’s a great “slideshow” feature that will allow you to quickly lopp through the bookmarked sites.

If you are a Diigo user (you *have* to be if you do Social Bookmarking) – check out the group I made today – Web Strategy. If you are interested in Web Strategy, Social Media, Internet Marketnig, etc… you are advised to join the group to share great articles and get in on the Web Strategy discussions.

If you aren’t a Diigo user… join today. Then, join our group.

If you still need convicing, read my post or read “7 reasons diigo tastes better than delicious”.

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6 Reasons Diigo is Better Than Delicious

by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 14, 2008

This is a hard one for me… But I’ve stopped using Delicious as of yesterday. Delicious was, probably, the first Web 2.0 application that I started using it. I remember “back in the day” trying to explain its usefulness to TJ. I had high hopes for the service when Yahoo bought them three years ago. But honestly, even with their latest release – they have stopped innovating.

I checked out Diigo on the recommendation of Mike Fruchter sometime ago via FriendFeed. Since signing up I hadn’t really used it. But, the latest update to delicious broke my Daily Digest series – which was the final straw. And since Diigo allows you to import from Delicious, there really is no switching costs for me. That being said I have been extremely happy with my Diigo experience.

Here are six reasons Diigo is better than Delicious

1. It’s more social
Diigo has an extra level of social networking that Delicious does not provide – at least not in a usable manner. You can connect with people that have similar interests based on what you tag.

2. Annotations
The annotations feature is very cool. When you bookmark something, you can highlight notable sections to refer to later. And any other Diigo users can see your highlights when they visit the page if they have the toolbar installed.

3. Superior UI and Experience
Aside from all the snazzy features, the core “bookmarks” interface is much better than that of delicious – offering many additional features and better organization.

4. Microblogging
The microblogging feature in delicious never got a chance. This is the “daily post” feature that basically posts a digest to your blog of all the bookmarks you have saved over X amount of time. Delicious always had it as an “experimental feature”, for 3 years. Diigo does it so much better, allowing you to post only specific tags to your blog as well as providing more customization features.

5. Discovery
Now, this is something that delicious did fairly well but is pretty much a product of its large community. But Diigo does a great job at it too, allowing you discover what’s hot across the network but also within a group of friends. It also has a “watchlist” feature that allows you to keep tabs on certain tags in the network. And last, it shows you a river of bookmarks from your network – with a neat tag cloud to see what your community is tagging the most.

6. Better Toolbox
You can import, export. There are widgets, linkrolls, and tagrolls. They offer several ways to interact with the service – through context menu, toolbars, bookmarklets. There’s a Facebook app. You can “save elsewhere” too. So, if you still want to post stuff to delicious (let’s say you have a great community there), you can set that up. What this does is posts your new bookmarks to the other services whenever you post them to Diigo.

All in all Diigo wins hands down.

So ditch delicious, sign up, and join me.

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