Diigo Launches, Nobody Cares
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wade-diigo
Well, over 10,000 users while still in invitation-based closed beta show that a lot of people do care. A lot of them are passionate enough to write some fairly good reviews. Look around
I care, I LOVE IT! Sure there are other players and I've tried them but Diigo is the one that suits my surfing style and needs. Don't assume because there are many players in a market the market can't cope with them and that if you don't like this product there aren't other people who will. Though I guess those of us reading and posting these sticky notes already know that!
on 2006-08-04 by
hcchen
Sould I change my name to 'Nobody' ?
on 2007-07-17 by
somtsoi
Im testing this thing
Hrm, this was two years ago. I wonder what the numbers over the past two years say.
The question is: does anybody care?
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wade-diigo
When you read books, in addition to bookmarks, you also want highlighter to highlight stuffs, penciil to write margin notes, and scissors to cut out really important pieces (if you are allowed:) Pete, do not tell me you are such a lazy reader that none of these is important to you.
Several features from Diigo are considered "killer" features by some of our users. For example, you can forward highlighted and sticky-noted webpages to your friends and colleagues. Now, tell me that this is not useful or is offered by mentioned competing services.
on 2006-07-24 by
ycc2106
Critisizing is easy. Could he do better?
on 2007-09-12 by
mikeem
Yes, i care! so does everyone i tell about this amazing service. Diigo keeps getting bigger and better
on 2009-08-19 by
doleygeg
Best ever! Hope to become the most popular social bookmarking site out there, and become a success, because I really want it to be arround for a long time!
Diigo aims to create a better social bookmarking tool.
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wade-diigo
Is Diigo a better social bookamarking service? Yes, if you realize the many advanced features - advanced full-text search, one-click blog, simultaneous bookmarking to local folder and to other online serives ...
Is Diigo merely a better social bookmarking service? No, unless you include highligher and sticky note as "bookmarking", which is not how my dictionary intrepret.
on 2006-07-24 by
jonathan
I think the whole service is FAB! There's nothing about it, until now, that i have come across, which is a waste of my time. In fact, it's the first bookmarking service that has appealed to me in AGES!
on 2006-07-24 by
rfreeman
"There's nothing about it, until now, that i have come across, which is a waste of my time." Agreed! It's one of those things that you can't imagine living without after you've tried it.
on 2006-08-08 by
hcchen
Yeap, that's correct ... I don't need another bookmarker. But I can't live without Diigo highligher and sticky note.
on 2006-09-21 by
chenjing
I can't live without Diigo highligher and sticky note。
Maybe the aim of diigo to compete with del.icio.us is wrong. The point is the highlight and forward/blog function, as is very useful and convinient! As well, I do think this is a quite advanced idea and cannot be accepted in a short time, but as days go by, people would find the advantages.
Well, Clipmarks just clips. Is a scissor similar to a pen and a highlighter? Pete’s logic just completely evades me
on 2006-07-24 by
rfreeman
Why would I want to use multiple services that collectively don't give me what I can get under one roof with Diigo?
Here's my addition
finally found something we can agree - and we are proud that Diigo is a "better delicious" -- much much better
on 2006-08-08 by
hcchen
... and Diigo actually works with delicious and all the friends !!
yeap, Diigo corporates with the other stuff but not compete. but we could say it's an enhanced del.icio.us.
Once again, I think it’s a case of too little, too late.
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wade-diigo
Many of our users tell us that they have been looking for the feature set Diigo offers for a long time. So i think we are just on time :)
I think these url-based sticky notes are very useful
on 2008-01-11 by
rapid7
Seems to me the only thing diigo is good for is allowing its developers to fight back against negative reviews.
Spend less time trying to PR a review that is already out, and spend that time developing the product so maybe they'll have a change of heart.
on 2008-03-13 by
joel
We are improving it.
on 2009-05-05 by
joestout
I agree with Roger, these sticky notes are great. Rock on Diigo!
on 2009-08-19 by
doleygeg
Just discovered diigo. I have the feeling, that this is "the begining of a beautiful friendship" :D
Diigo isn’t a terrible product, but I think it’s safe to say it’s going nowhere. Aside from the few hundred users who find the additional features useful, it’s unlikely to see any real adoption.
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wade-diigo
We will be happy to continue to serve our "niche" user base, which already numbers over 10,000
on 2006-07-25 by
mikelee
I love Diigo and want to see it around. This is a clearly biased review - the guy is either brain-dead or have some personal grievance
Yeah--I really enjoy Diigo. It's fast and it combines a load of functionality, yet is self-explanatory.
on 2006-08-17 by
jordilin
The reviewer does not know what he is talking about. Diigo is the very best of bookmarking and interaction with the web
on 2007-03-14 by
shamaila
i truly agree with all and its still in beta so there lots more to come
Someone didn't do his homework. *wags finger* There's a bit of a difference between hundreds and thousands. Honestly. Is it so hard to find accurate figures to report?
This is not only about the number of users, it is also about how users use it. I personnally don't browse anywhere without Diigo. I use it all the time.
This reviewer joins the throng of morons who said, "The automobile is a fad," "television will never take a prominent role in our culture," "rock and roll will die," "ebusiness is doomed to failure."
You're DUMB, Pete Cashmore. Diigo is a phenomenal research tool, business tool, collaboration tool, academic tool, social tool.
With the many millions of internet users, it will attract more than the few hundred users that you predict.... and with public, group, and private applications.... it won't be used for simple tinkering.
Excuse me, does any of these services offer anywhere close to what Diigo offers?
These services depend on volume to experience any success at all, being collective intelligence models.
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wade-diigo
Ian, Diigo is first a powerful personal research tool . You do not need a crowd to appreciate the value of a highlighter and sticy note, do you?
Seconded, I use Diigo as a personal research tool first and a collective discovery tool second. As journal articles are increasingly available on the web I have been crying out for the online equivalent of the highlighter pen and the sticky to make notating as easier online as it is on paper. The additional discovery tools are of course a bonus.
I say that review was spot on except for the line:
“Diigo isn’t a terrible product”
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Sam, I would appreciate if you can comment on my sticy notes point-by-point. That way, we can have more precise discussions, instead of sweeping statements
If you have ever tried to use it I can assure you it is pretty painful. I am not sure if it is something personal to me, but I find their UI design very painful.
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wade-diigo
I know your UI taste differs from ours from your previous comments. UI is always personal. I hated myspace for example, but apparently millions of people disagree
HOHO, agreed!~ : )
Btw, I like D's UI!
If you’re looking for some awesome blogging and research tools in addition to everything you’d expect in a bookmarking service, then explore the depth of services that Diigo has to offer. In my opinion Diigo isn’t just a tool, it’s more akin to a household appliance.
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wade-diigo
Right on, Reggie! We designed Diigo very much because we cannot find anything that satisfies our own needs, and we are sure there are a lot other people feel the same way
This space is seriously crowed!
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wade-diigo
If after you read my comments, or better yet, tried Diigo, and still think that Diigo is just another entry in the social bookmarking service, then somehow we have failed to communcate or connect. I would love to chat with you separately
on 2008-07-19 by
lenoxus
Typo or no, I have to say I love the term "crowed".
"Nice shoes man — they're crowed!"
As I said in an email to you guys, I’m sorry for being so tactless about this - and you’re right that I didn’t give a fair run down of your features. Nonetheless, I do wonder if you might struggle to differentiate the offering in this market.
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wade-diigo
The whole Diigo team has worked incredibly hard to deliver what we think are usefull contributions and innovations to the world internet users. Having unfair reviews from respected bloggers like yourself is incredibly disheartening. If you are involved with an effort like this, you would know
on 2006-08-25 by
tedperl
I think it is extraordinarily clever and useful. I have been using net snippets, but this seems far more functional. Only question before I devote the effort to work with it does concern longevity--financing as well as commitment
I hate it when I read a nice blog post and at the bottom they have a “Liked this Article? Bookmark us!” section, and there are 26 entries (no kidding!).
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on 2006-07-24 by
rfreeman
I agree, that's why I only have one: Diigo. As far as I'm concerned it's really the only one needed.
on 2006-08-08 by
hcchen
不過 delicious 仍然是最容易找到好東西的地方。Diigo 並不排斥這些既有的 service, Diigo 順便把 bookmarks 送給他們。好耶！我喜歡。
on 2006-08-08 by
hcchen
... 表示當 Diigo 越成功，delicious (and friends) 也會更有價值。這種超越貧乏之競爭關係的味道極佳。
What I don’t understand is why anyone should care about the opinion of a blogger who apparently posts without even knowing anything about his subject. I spend a lot of time doing research, some of it on the Internet.
I have a whole, long list of somewhat nice tools I have come across. Most of them are things I might use occasionally. I would never even think of adding toolbars for most of them, or setting up a permanent tab in Firefox to keep them always available - I’d just clutter up my workspace.
But that is exactly what I have done with Diigo - I installed their toolbar and I set up a permanent Firefox tab for them. Why? I can share bookmarks with others when I need to, but much more importantly, I can highlight, annotate, clip, and bookmark any Web content I choose, all in one central, convenient spot.
Diigo is like a well-loved research notebook crammed with notes for current projects, past projects, possible future projects. Unlike most of the bookmarking “services”, I can go back to a page and see my own notes reminding me of the thought which prompted me to bookmark it.
There is nothing else that even approaches it on the Web, or if there is, I haven’t heard of it. The only other social bookmarking service I consider of any real use is eSnips, which allows me to upload files for sharing with a group of my choice. Which is an entirely different feature. But, I could more easily imagine Diigo adding that functionality to their existing site than I could imagine eSnips catching up to Diigo.
Personally, I hope both eSnips and Diigo survive, but if only one of them is to be a success, my vote is firmly with Diigo. As for all the other, popular social bookmarking sites out there - yes, it was a somewhat interesting idea, but they have already been left in the dust by Diigo. Calling Diigo “just another” site like the others is as absurd as it would be to label the first interstellar spaceship “just another aircraft”.
Yes, I can think of features or tweaks I wish Diigo would add. But they’re just starting out. I’m sure the first interstellar spacecraft will need a few refits, too. But that’s no reason to suggest we might as well all stay on Earth and ignore the rest of the Universe. Diigo opens up a much wider universe on the Web to me, and to many others.
To all of you who don’t care - enjoy being stranded in your little backwater pond as it stagnates - I will be out surfing the whole wide ocean of data out there. And I won’t waste any time worrying about you and your plight; after all, you brought it on yourselves by your apathy.
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wanderingauthor
The really amusing thing about this is that those who don't care can't even see the full discussion taking place. They truly don't know what they're missing. Hey, since a car is just another form of transportation, why don't they all just ride horses to work, to the store, etc.? Or mules? That seems even more appropriate, LOL.
“Diigolet” (no Flock version yet)
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on 2007-03-08 by
arrix_
Diigolet works very well with Flock.
Diigo is different, not because it can’t do what the other services do. It’s different because it puts the user’s needs first and centre, instead of using the user for information aggregation purposes.
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eyalnow
on 2007-03-13 by
eyalnow
diigo focuses on the user
offers some similar annotation features
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lampertina
July 24, 2006
Pete Cashmore
Diigo, the “social annotation” tool (ie. another social bookmarking site), has taken off the beta label and launched publicly today. The service, which first began its private beta back in December 2005, is an acronym for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”. The question is: does anybody care?
Diigo aims to create a better social bookmarking tool. You can choose between the Diigo toolbar, which works with IE, Firefox or Flock, and a conventional bookmarklet called the “Diigolet” (no Flock version yet). You can use these tools to highlight specific content on a webpage, bookmark it, or send the selected text to your blog. Rival Clipmarks offers some similar annotation features. The Diigo team seem very conscious of the fact that they’re offering a “better del.icio.us” - as a result, they’ve added instant importing from del.icio.us and the ability to post to multiple social bookmarking sites from the toolbar itself.
Diigo isn’t a terrible product, but I think it’s safe to say it’s going nowhere. Aside from the few hundred users who find the additional features useful, it’s unlikely to see any real adoption. And I hardly need to mention that this is a crowded space - Ma.gnolia, eSnips, Jots, Fungow, SpinSpy, Simpy, RawSugar are just a few of the players here. Even serving up MySpace codes is unlikely to distance you from the competition. Once again, I think it’s a case of too little, too late.
See also Folkd, which offers an alternative to Digg.
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social annotation
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Specifically, just to give your readers an idea of how I use diigo: I’ve used it to research archival material for the city I live in — archival visual material of the built environment, which I then tagged according to time period (1860s through to 1970s). Converting these diigo bookmarks from “private” (my default) to “public,” I was then able to put this research on my wiki, an online/offline community project. In addition, I have a score of “private” category pages, online material about urbanism, urbanplanning, Jane Jacobs, Vancouver (I live in Victoria, but Vancouver figures, too), and other texts, which I could not only bookmark and tag, but which I could highlight & annotate. When it comes time to write an article, I pull out the appropriate articles and click on “expand” to see all my comments, highlights, annotations. I can then easily extract all the relevant material as notes for my article. I can’t imagine having to do all this via copy-and-paste into a text editor, for example. With diigo, boom, it’s all done with a click. Perfect.
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service, which first began its private beta
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naveenbala
it’s incredibly useful — and unique — if you’re actually surfing the web to read articles, which you want to annotate and mark up and tag, so that you can USE the information that _you_ are gleaning for some project, vs. BEING the information (which gets used by trend spotters, market watchers, etc.).
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I’m a researcher and I need a service that lets me manage online texts and information in a way that I can use, and for that diigo is the best tool around. Really.
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I have been using diigo for a few weeks now. I love it. I wish I had this tool when I was completing my Master’s.
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eyalnow
I read a lot of health articles and sometimes there might be just one sentence of a paragraph that I want to remember. I can highlight just that, add notes, and refer to Diigo when I want the information later. And that’s really what makes Diigo tick.
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eyalnow
When you highlight and add notes, it all shows up at your Diigo page. So, you don’t even have to go back the original webpage to see the pertinent information, just go to your Diigo page if you prefer. VERY useful when you’ve collected information about one topic from many different webpages. The feature “extract highlights” is great for this, as it lets you show your highlights on one page that you can print out or save as a document.
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It strikes me from reading the comments and sticky notes that one community Diigo really appeals to those of us who use the internet to do copious amounts of research.
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As more articles and information move online I have missed the convenience of the pen and highlighter that made it so easy to markup paper texts. Wade is right the pen & highlighter model they have developed that is so quick and easy makes online research much easier.
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eyalnow
conventional bookmarklet
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ial annotation” tool (ie. another social bookmarking site), has taken off the beta label and launched publ
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dli321
“social annotation” tool (ie. another social bookmarking site), has taken off the beta label and launched publicly today. The service, which first began its private beta back in December 2005, is an
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l annotation” tool (ie. another social bookmarking site), has taken off the beta label and launche
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“social annotation” tool (ie. another social bookmarking site), has taken off the beta label and launched publicly today. The service, which first began its private beta back in December 2005, is an a
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social annotation” tool (ie. another social
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social annotation
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mrebe1
Diigo isn’t a terrible product, but I think it’s safe to say it’s going nowhere
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msnatalia
I find that people who use Diigo have no other praise for it except for the highlighting and annotation. It seems these users don’t have the brainpower to remember what they read, and must highlight a small internet paragraph that usually says very little.
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loriborealis
annotations, so I'd like to be able to just turn that off. I don't want to see
other people's annotations either. There are no preferences as far as I can see
to change some of these features
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