Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Social Bookmarking
During my experience with Social Bookmarking tools, I learned that such tools help alot with organizing yourself and keeping everything saved somewhere where it will not be hard to find. It makes everything very simple, which is a very good thing when you consider the time you want to spend looking for something. With such helpful tools, one is able to keep track of all the information that is being gathered and is also able to organize everything in a very little amount of time. These tools are not time consuming and help the user alot. Diigo is one of the best tools a student could ever ask for. It helps a student alot because say for example the student is asked to do a research paper and needs the works cited, if he or she forgets to cite something and wants to go back to see where it was that they got the information from, all the student does is type the sentence and Diigo will automatically find the exact website that it is from. Unlike Google or Yahoo, Diigo takes you straight to the website and highlights the sentenced you have typed. Google and Yahoo give you millions of sites which include the same words, or many times just a few of those words and not in order. It is much harder and time consuming to use those sites to look for something. Diigo facilitates the work of people and it also saves you alot of time, which is a great advantage to students considering the fact that they sometimes have more than one assignment to complete.
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My favourite Diigo feature is annotation.
I left Blinklist one month ago and start using Diigo, and I was attracted immediatelly to that beatiful and useful layout.
But there are some details in the social bookmark tool that make it worst than the others, just like these:
- Diigo doesn't permit you give stars to the sites you most like, so they can appear in first place in a given list. Blinklist does it very well. Starring your sites is a good and esay way to have access to your "favorites of favorites".
- Diigo doesn't have a Quick Start Page, like Blinklist does. This page is something like iGoogle and Netvibes, where you can put all the sites you visit often.
- Diigo doesn't permit you organize your bookmarks in bundles, like Delicious does. The bundles are excellent to find the tags associated with any given issue.
- Diigo doesn't have a bookmarklet that permit you save a page in a quick way, just with a touch in the icon, without giving it an specified tag.
That is it. I hope Diigo become, in the future, a complete bookmarking tool, offering us all the facilities the others already have.
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