Please note that we will be upgrading data servers on July 22 (Wed) around 00:00 PST for about an hour or so. Diigo will not be accessible during this period.
The results are out, and we’re thrilled that Diigo has just been named a winner in CNET’s 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the Browsing category!
The Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications on the Web. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to pick the best Web 2.0 sites and services. In the browsing category, we were up against major platforms like Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome, Safari, My Yahoo, and 24 others. We appreciate that so many of our users and fans made their way over to vote for us and made us a winner. We couldn’t have done it without your kind support!
Thanks so much to everyone for your votes, support, and engagement on Diigo!
We’re excited to announce that Diigo has been nominated as a finalist for the Webware 100 2009 Awards put on by CNET in the Browsing category. For Diigo listed among major platforms like Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, Google Chrome /Readers, My Yahoo, and others is quite awesome!
The CNET Webware 100 is a round-up of outstanding Web 2.0 products and services, nominated by the readers. The Webware editors select 300 finalists out of about 5000 qualified submissions and invite readers to vote on the final picks. 10 out of 30 will be crowned as the best in class for each category. This comes on the heels of our winning Mashable Open Web Awards last December for which we owe a HUGE thanks to all of our supporters that submitted votes on our behalf. Earlier Diigo was also recognized by CNET in its “Top 10 Research Tools” list, among Wikipedia, Google Search, Google Earth, etc. We’d love to keep this momentum going and the voting for this is super easy (just one round 🙂
You can vote HERE! One vote allowed per person, per awards category. Voting will end on April 30, 2009, at noon Pacific Time, so be sure to vote right away, and spread the word to other fans of Diigo.
Thank you very much for your support!
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Update (March 21, 2009)
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We are very pleased that Furl has become part of Diigo.com and would like to warmly welcome you all to the Diigo community!
Given that we have constant website & toolbar new updates, we will be phasing out Furl and migrating Furl users to Diigo. Meanwhile, we have made transferring your Furl links to Diigo very quick and easy:
1) Go to the transfer page: http://www.diigo.com/import_all/transfer_furl
2) Enter your Furl username / password, agree to our Terms of service, & follow the steps
3) Once the transfer is complete, you will receive an email from us with your login info
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Important Note:
When you sign in to Diigo the very first time, you will be prompted to install either our Diigo’s toolbar (Firefox / IE), or Diigolet (all major browsers supported). Then you’ll be ready to begin Diigoing!
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The Diigo team is passionate about making Diigo the best knowledge sharing and management platform for individuals, work groups, and companies. We look forward to having your active participation in the Diigo community. Lots more exciting projects forthcoming. Stay tuned, as we continue to innovate and evolve!
The Diigo Team
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!
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
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.
ps: Follow us on Twitter for whispers, early news, reviews, and updates from Diigo!
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UPDATE 1 (Aug 16, 8AM): Upgrade in progress…
UPDATE 2 (Aug 16, 5PM): Although earlier we have alerted users in our blog / user forum / user dashboard area about the scheduled downtime / upgrade that’s going on now, some users have emailed or tweeted, wondering why the downtime is taking so long. Don’t worry – all is going as planned. Please note that this is not just a regular site maintenance, but a major server and database upgrade to provide you with speedier performance and to support Diigo’s rapidly growing user base. We hope to have the site rollout in a few more hours. Please also note that bookmarking during the server downtime won’t be saved.
UPDATE 3 (Aug 16, 10PM): Site is back.
UPDATE 4 (Aug 16, 10:15PM): Heavy backend computation at the moment – rebuilding the tag search index (any tag-related search | feed & speed will be temporarily affected)… We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause. Thanks for your understanding.
UPDATE 5 (Aug 17, 11:00AM): New Diigo FF toolbar feature: Quick Access Filter (see here)
UPDATE 6 (Aug 17, 2:00PM): Some users reported toolbar signin issue. Look like a mac issue. Looking into it now.
UPDATE 7 (Aug 18, 6:00AM): FF mac signin issue should be resolved. Please reinstall the latest toolbar and advise.
UPDATE 8 (Aug 18, 7:00AM): Tag search re-indexing completed. You should be able to access your tags data now. Full text search re-indexing will probably take another day or so (ie. search box on the upper right hand corner not functional yet.)
UPDATE 9 (Aug 18, 9:00AM): Group email alert service resumed.
UPDATE 10 (Aug 19, 6:00AM): Daily blog post service resumed.
Please email us or report to our user forum any issue that you have noticed. Thanks
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On Friday, Aug 15 starting from 11pm PDT (Saturday, Aug 16, 6:00 am GMT), Diigo will be unavailable while we conduct a major backend upgrade to provide better performance, and in preparation for what’s coming up in the pipeline…
ps: Follow us on Twitter for whispers, early news, reviews, and updates from Diigo!
I am on my way to NECC / EduBloggerCon conference in San Antonio, Texas, June 28th – July 2nd. NECC is the place for hands-on, interactive learning about how technology and the latest Web 2.0 innovations can transform teaching and learning. Over 18,000 people are expected this year, wow!
I’m very excited about this trip. Why? I’ve befriended with lots of Diigo users, and many of us have been interacting “virtually” for a while. While internet certainly has removed the distance barrier and made many incredible things possible, still, nothing is quite like a face-to-face meeting. So, very much looking forward to finally meeting up with a bunch of friends in person for the first time, and sure hope to make new acquaintances with a lot more people in the next few days as well!
This Sat, June 28, I will attend the EduBloggercon (9am – 5pm) at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. For most of the NECC conference, besides attending some interesting keynotes and sessions, I will also be hanging out a lot on the NECC unplugged / Blogger’s Cafe. I will be wearing a Diigo T-shirt, so hopefully it’s easier to spot me. If you are at NECC, I’d love to meet you in person. I’ve created a NECC profile http://www.necc2008.org/profile/MaggieTsai Twitter, IM, DMS (diigo messaging system), or email me if you’d like to get together and/or if you’d like to see Diigo in action.
I cannot wait to meet a bunch of educators who are passionate about learning and exploring ways to integrate latest technology innovation to transform education and make a difference for their students!
~ Maggie
We’re delighted to learn that Tim O’Connor who is currently the Strategic Sourcing Lead for Capgemini, one of the largest management and IT consulting firms, has been invited to present at ERE Expo 2008 and will be featuring Diigo in his talk on April 2nd in San Diego. ERE Expo is the premier gathering for those in the HR / Recruiting / Sourcing industry. Broad range of the most recent and relevant issues currently affecting the global recruiting industry will be discussed.
SESSION DESCRIPTION
In this session, O’Connor introduces you to Diigo, a site that allows you create your own database of candidates on line for free. Diigo was not created with the thought of recruiting in mind, but he explains how it can be a hidden gem for a few select recruiters and researchers in the U.S. who have been lucky enough to understand how to get the most of it. You’ll learn how to do Boolean searches across multiple search engines in just seconds. You’ll learn more about bookmarks and tags. You’ll learn how to create your own database of candidates online.
SESSION TIME
April 2nd, 1:30pm
A related quote from a recruiting specialist, Michael Marlatt, who is using Diigo extensively as he’s constantly sourcing for talent on from the web:
“Whether I am surfing the web, sourcing for resumes or conducting competitive intelligence, Diigo allows me to quickly capture relevant data, create annotations, keep it all organized, easily retrievable, simultaneously share (real-time) content with my team, and oh by the way I can do this without my personal computer from anywhere in the world. The days of simply book-marking favorites in a browser (old-school) and creating “bookmarklets” is definitely not efficient. This is especially true if you have 100’s (if not 1000’s) of favorite sites stored in your current browser. Diigo has vastly simplified how I maintain and share content from the web.”
The online recruiting “guru”, Jim Stroud, also has posted several strong recommendations for Diigo here, here, here and here. In his words “
Diigo 