Is Diigo the next phase in social bookmarking? Giving a solid try
March 21, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
Lots of buzz yesterday about the v.3 of Diigo, the social bookmarking service yesterday. As someone who only sorta uses del.icio.us I thought I’d just look and move on.
Reading everyone’s reviews (especially Rafe’s on Webware) I started thinking maybe there might be more to it:
- Social Bookmarking 2.0 – Diigo Sets The Standard for Others to Follow– bub.blicio.us
- Diigo Tackles Recommendations – ReadWriteWeb
- Diigo Revamps Social Bookmarking Service with v3.0
- Diigo 3.0: The all-powerful personal, social bookmarking service | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
- Diigo v3: Improves Social Bookmarking : Somewhat Frank :: web tech life :: blog by Frank Gruber
As usual I waited until I had a chance to use it a bit before I wrote this (that and I had a helluva time getting the Firefox extension loaded–my fault not theirs). Thus far I’m pretty impressed. Diigo looks more polished than del.icio.us, the features for importing are nice as well.
Although the toolbar was a pain to install, once I did get it done, I like it. Nice buttons, easy connections to bookmarks and friends.
For example here is what it looks like checking out Rafe’s post (yes, very meta I know):
The question, like Marshall pointed out in his review on RWW, is will this have staying power for users. These sites are great and cool when you start using them, but often the luster wears off quickly.
If you want to check out my bookmarks I’m trishussey (as usual) on Diigo I’m also putting bookmarks that I think will be of particular interest to ML2 readers on the side bar with the tag ML2.
Are you using social bookmarks? Do you check you and use the bookmarks people save?
