Diigo

Draft

Introduction

Diigo (Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff) a social bookmarking service

“Diigo (dee'go) is about "Social Annotation". By combining social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo offers a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform for knowledge users, and in the process, turns the entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive media. The social annotation service introduced by Diigo allows users to add highlights and sticky notes, in situ, on any web page they read. Imagine a giant transparency overlaying on top of all the web pages. Users can write on the transparency as they wish, as private notes or public comments. And they can read public comments on the transparency left by other readers of the same page, and hear their "two cents" and interact with them.” (About Diigo, retrieved May 2009.)

Diigo allows allows to annotate web pages.

Software

There exist several kinds of clients, e.g.

• Connect to the DIIGO web site
• Web browser DIIGO extensions (several), e.g. Diigolet
• Web Widgets or services that interact with Diigo

The "heavy" firefox client

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9258

Links

• Video explaining Diigo
• The sharing of links online, An example of the creation of a personal learning environment, by Alain McCluskey.
• Diigo - a more detailed look par Richard Allaway, dec 2008.