Adventure into Furl It and Diigo

My adventure starts here....!!!!

The first fact is: FURL WAS SHUT DOWN ON APRIL 17, 2009, and absorbed by DIIGO!!!!!!!! Why is it still there on course blackboard??? No wonder when I clicked that link, it brought me to Diigo site. AAARRGH!!!!! Alright then, Diigo now.

Diigo is another free social bookmarking site similar to Delicious but with more optional functions. Diigo claims to enable users to annotate, archive and organise bookmarks. Users can archive or store their favourite web pages (bookmarks) forever and make them searchable. Users can search collections by tags, full text (oo, I like this), highlights, sticky notes, titles of web pages and etc. These bookmarks can be achive into multiple version, either as html (webpage) or picture (screenshot) formats.

I like its organising feature the most. It allows user to highlight and add sticky notes to specific parts of web pages archived... WooHoo!!! And the sticky notes can be freely positioned, resizable and floating... And more, users can organise items by tags or list (GoogleNote import is supported!!!). Users can build web slides too, an interactive slideshow to introduce their bookmarks.

It also provides collaboration in group, which group bookmarks can become a repository of a collective research. Several applications for group usages: group widgets, group sticky notes, group forums, group tag dictionary and etc.

It can be used in several common browsers. But a Diigo toolbar is recommended to install into the browser. (ooo... after I installed the toolbar, my PC toolbar looks horrible, too many things... because I already have Google Toolbar on it plus the IE Toolbar... now, the Diigo wants to squeeze in for a place.. I should evalute this after one month - how often I use the Diigo toolbar.. ) Apart from toolbar, Diigo offers several other tools as shown in the diagram below.

This is how its help page looks like, videoclip is embedded in most help pages to help users better understanding how to use Diigo.

And here is the Diigo Community that users can search and find interesting bookmarks to achive through some popular bookmarks or tags.


It also includes social features such as users can sign into Diigo through Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and Open ID.

I found it very interesting and it is now sitting on my PC toolbar. Need sometime to dig into it, test it and evaluate it.

Great Tool!!!