Diigo: Social Bookmarking and Annotation (Originally posted on June 20, 2006 on my now defunct blog)

Okay, so sometimes I sign up for things without really knowing what they are or how to use them, and I subsequently delete them from my computer and my memory without a second thought until I get an email from the company thanking me for using their beta. This is how I discovered Diigo and social bookmarking.

Diggo is all about social annotation and bookmarking. I've been playing around with it for the past couple days, and I've discovered that it may be quite useful to me, and others. I've become very fond of bookmarking sites that I'd like to return to someday. I bookmark like crazy, and then I can't remember what I wanted to keep that site for in the first place. With Diigo, you can bookmark a site, give it a relevant tag, highlight the parts of the page that are of interest and make comments about the site. You can make your comments public, so everybody can see them or private, where only you can see them. The community feature is kind of neat...you can see what other people think about different webpages.

Of course, there are other social bookmarking sites out there, like del.icio.us and Kaboodle, but so far, the only one I've tried is this Diigo and I enjoy the interface and useability. Granted, it is still in the beta stages, so there's a few kinks, but those get worked out with time...

If you'd like to start using Diigo, because it is still in the beta stages, you must have an invite...kind of like Gmail...so if you'd like an invite, just let me know!

If you'd like more information on what Diigo is or how it works, check out www.diigo.com or click here for a good article all about it.