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Update: GN Importer (Alpha): http://www.diigo.com/tools/import_google_notebook
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Google just announced that it will gradually phase out Google Notebook and many people are looking for alternatives. Here is a brief side-by-side comparison of Google Notebook and Diigo:
- Google Notebook is very much similar to Diigo Lists. In Diigo Lists, you can organize, share and display specific collections of bookmarks. Once you add bookmarks to your list, you can easily re-arrange the collections by drag-and-drop, and add “section”. And you can publish a Diigo list as an HTML document.
- In Diigo, an item in a list is also saved separately as a bookmark (which can be tagged). So in this sense, Diigo integrates both Google Notebook and Google Bookmark.
- Diigo also has the important advantage that “clippings” are really “highlights” on the original web pages and will be shown as such when you re-visit the web pages, reminding you the exact context of the clippings.
- Another unique Diigo list feature: once you create a list, click the ” WebSlides” button, you can browse, play and annotate any list of URLs as a slide show! It’s great for content browsing, sharing, and creating unique presentations based on web content.Here is an example of a Diigo List, consisting of recent reviews of Diigo, and watch the Diigo List / WebSlides in action!
- Google Notebook is a bit more flexible in that an item does not have to be tied to a webpage. Diigo Lists will soon be upgraded to provide this flexibility and a lot more in the near future.
So, as you can see, Diigo is a lot more powerful than Google Notebook (in fact, Google Notebook and Bookmark combined), and should be an excellent alternative, especially for demanding users. For those who are new to Diigo, please check out the Diigo intro video to learn more.
We are working on a Google Notebook importer so you can move to Diigo with a few clicks very soon. Stay tuned!
January 15th, 2009
We’ve done a very simple mobile app. Here are some tips for iPhone users:
How to access your Diigo bookmarks on iPhone
Visit http://m.diigo.com/user/yourusername
How to add bookmarks to Diigo on iPhone
1. Set up the “Post to Diigo” button http://www.diigo.com/tools/post_to_diigo or “Diigolet” button http://www.diigo.com/tools/diigolet in Safari or IE browser on your computer
Note: “Post to Diigo” is for easy posting. “Diigolet” has the advantage of not jumping to another page, although other functions not working. The choice is yours.
2. Sync bookmarks with your iPhone. Follow the instruction by Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386 If you experience problem in this step, try to remove all your bookmarks on iPhone, then, sync again.
3. When you browse through the web on iPhone:
- Go to your bookmarks menu
- Find “Post to Diigo” or “Diigolet” button
- Click it to add bookmark to your Diigo account
Give it a try and let us know what you think. There are a lot of new innovations on iPhone / mobile apps. We’re continuing to push the envelop & cool new apps on their way… We’d also love to hear from you - drop us an email info [at] diigo to discuss your feedback / wishlist!
January 9th, 2009
UPDATE (Dec 18, 11pm) New Ver 3.1.6.13 available on http://www.diigo.com/tools
UPDATE (Dec 18, 10am) New Ver 3.1.6.12 available on http://www.diigo.com/tools
Fixed some unexpected issues that affected some users reported in user forums. Thanks a lot for everyone’s active help to assist us with fast iterations to resolve issues quickly. Sorry for any inconvenience!
We always do very thorough testing with each upgrade as possible. Of course, with such a diverse users’ settings and environments, sometimes unexpected things happen. Our team is committed to deliver the best possible user experience for our users, and we will get issues resolved quickly. Together with your help, we will continue to make Diigo better and better!
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We’ve made some usability improvement and some bug fixes in this version:
1. Add “Get Annotated” link …/ Extract Annotations
2. Remove “Post a note”
3. If a user selects some text and clicks “Send” button, the text will automatically be captured within the message window.
- Add a “Read Later” button
- “Quick Access Filter” improvement
1. Move “Add a filter” button to the end of all filters
2. Add a tip when the filter is empty. “Still empty, drag a link here to save”
3. Different color for Unread and Recent quick access filter
- Add “Get annotated link” in the highlight mouse over menu
These features really add convenience and enhance your browsing experience. Will soon write a more detailed post to supplement this change log.
As always, please let us know if you notice any issues. Thanks!
December 18th, 2008
It’s official: Diigo wins Best Social Bookmarking for Mashable’s People’s Choice Open Web Awards!
The Open Web Awards is a multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. It recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. This year Mashable partners up over 100 international blog partners to cover the event. Through a competitive online nominating and two rounds of voting process, we are happy to share with you that Diigo was selected as the winner of the Social Bookmarking category in the People’s Choice Open Web Awards.
As both a research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, Diigo is carefully designed to address these needs: how to discover, process, manage, and share online information more productively and effectively. While Diigo is not the “biggest” yet, it certainly is the “BEST” among its class, and continues to get better and better as we are barely scratching the surface of what can be done here!
Of course, we’d like the share the joy and honor with the entire Diigo community. We couldn’t have done it without your kind support. Very big thanks to everyone for voting for us to give Diigo its due recognition!
We are passionate about making Diigo the best knowledge sharing and management platform for individuals, work groups, and companies. Lots more exciting projects forthcoming. Stay tuned, as we continue to evolve and push forward!
December 16th, 2008
With the release of the Diigo Educator Accounts, we have received lots of encouraging words, valuable feedback, and kind support from educators all over the world. Among the web 2.0 technologies, we believe that Diigo provides a unique collaborative research and learning platform that will be valuable in all aspects of information processing, from discovering, digesting, organizing, sharing, collaborating to interacting, which are all essential skills for 21st Century workforce. This is only the first phase of our efforts to bring to education the powerful benefits of Diigo, and the work has just begun.
With all the interaction and kind help that we’ve received from the education community, we’d like to recognize those educators who are taking pioneering steps in getting their students and/or their peers started on collaborative research using Diigo’s powerful features. To express our appreciation, we’ve designed a “Diigo Education Pioneer” badge especially for you! Along with that, a big “Thank you”!
So, who gets to have this “Diigo Education Pioneer” badge? Well, once your account has been approved for the education upgrade and you have started using and sharing Diigo with your students and/or colleagues in an educational setting, you can get your own in your “Teacher Console” area >> Get Your Own Badge!
We have a whole array of nice looking badges to suit your own personal style 
On your badge page, simply mouse-over and click to select the desired color badge, copy the HTML code, and then paste it to your website or blog template. That’s it! Best of all, that’s a personalized badge - any visitor clicking your Diigo Education Pioneer badge will be able to visit your Diigo public profile. Cool, huh!
With the release of the first phase of Diigo Educator Accounts, we will continue to work with our education community to define the next phase of Diigo for Education, and explore the full potential of Diigo as an educational tool.
Get your account upgraded now and become a “Diigo Education Pioneer” today!
PS. A special thanks to Vicki Davis for the badge idea. We do value everyone’s input
November 20th, 2008
Mashable Open Web Awards just opens up its first round of voting, and Diigo is a semi-finalist in the social bookmarking category. Now we need your vote to make it to the Final Round!
Diigo is often compared with other social bookmarking sites. We feel this is not quite doing it justice. As both a research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, Diigo is substantially more powerful as it is carefully designed to address these needs: how to discover, process, manage, and share online information more productively and effectively. While Diigo is not the “biggest” yet, it certainly is the “BEST” among its class, and continues to get better and better as we are barely scratching the surface of what can be done here!
User can vote once a day. Please submit your email address in the widget above and confirm your vote by clicking on the link in your email. With your help, we can grow the Diigo Knowledge Community, and provide even more value to users. Please share your love for Diigo & help us to spread the news Thanks for your support!
Cheers,
~ The Diigo Team
November 19th, 2008
Thanksgiving is approaching, and I have started my hunt for the best Turkey recipes After tagging, highlighting all the good stuff that I found on the web, I entered few keywords to pull out the list of my research. But that’s still quite a few web resources to compare and decide which one looks the most promising! So here is what I do:
1) Use “Expand All” or “Expand” to open up my annotations that I made while researching. This lets me browse through what I considered “important” easily:
2) Use the “Preview” link under each bookmark to quickly browse through the original page without having to open up another window and interrupting my research flow. I can scroll the page up and down, quickly deciding whether to look through that page more closely or move on to other bookmarks:
3) Of course, besides my own bookmarks, I can also select “Everyone’s Bookmarks“ and check out what the community has collectively discovered.
And, if I decide to further organize a specific collection of bookmarks on a topic, I can also build a Diigo List (like a folder, but much better!) to access and/or share it easily.
More tips on creative ways to use a Diigo List, and social discovery that you can get through the Diigo Sidebar later!
PS. I probably will go with this one: 8 Treasures Stuffed Turkey with Shiraz-Honey Jus. Sounds yummy! Wish me luck
~ Maggie
November 14th, 2008
1. Add the “View Annotation” filter feature.
2. Bookmarks in the quick access filter can be opened in a new tab by middle-click.
November 8th, 2008
Diigo groups are widely embraced by many work groups, interest groups and school classes for collaborative research. From listening to our users’ feedback, we have now made it possible to automatically post group bookmarks to your blogs!
This “Group Auto Blog Post” feature will enable group member to automatically post your group bookmarks to your blog(s) daily or weekly - a super easy way to share your group’s findings with your blog readers!
Follow these steps to set it up:
- As a group member, select “Group Auto Blog Post” function in the Group Menu (upper right hand corner of the group’s homepage). And click “Add Your Blog Post Job”
- Follow the instructions on the page for “Setting / Selecting a blog“, then click “Add a new job”
- Fill in the form. Select your group from the “Privacy / Source” pull down menu, and Submit. That’s it!
While you’re at this, you may also want to check out the “Group Badge”
and “Group Linkrolls & Group Tagrolls” functions
All of these are great ways to help you publicize your group and share your group’s resources! Give them a try and let us know what you think.
November 6th, 2008
Update: Diigo Groups upgrade completed. If you notice any issue, please report to Diigo Forums. Thanks
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On Monday, Oct 20 starting from midnight 0:00 PDT (Monday, Oct 20, 7:00 am GMT), Diigo Groups will be unavailable while we conduct a backend upgrade to provide better performance. Only Groups will be down for a little while - rest of the site will not be affected.
Thanks for your patience while we make this upgrade to make Diigo better and better, and thanks for your continued support!
Your Diigo Team
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October 19th, 2008
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