(Definition)
“Social Bookmarking in Plain English”
Diigo.com: Bookmarking Plus Annotation (Randy’s Pick)
Diigo.com may be the best of breed at this point in time – user-friendly social bookmarking with an excellent set of annotation tools including direct web page highlighting and sticky notes and more — this tool gets top marks for online research.
Diigo demo from diigo.com
Articles & Reviews (external):
* c|net Reviews: Get Smart: Top 10 Research Tools
* TechCrunch: Diigo is a Research Tool That Rocks!
* Social annotations: forget del.icio.us and company and get Diigo!
* Solution Watch: Diigo Review
* Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies: Top 100 Tools
* Social annotations: forget del.icio.us and company and get Diigo!
Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us is pronounced “delicious” – ignore the dots – is a “social bookmarking site”, which is a website where you can store your bookmarks on a web site outside of your computer, and see other users’ bookmarks as well. Del.icio.us is one of the first and most popular but lacks the rich annotation tools of Diigo.com, yet for simple bookmarking, keyword tagging, organizing, and sharing of bookmarks, it works well.
One the the nifty things about Del.icio.us and social bookmarking in general is that you can access your bookmarks from any internet-connected computer. You can also organize your bookmarks by “tags” or keywords, rather than filing them in a folder structure within your browser.
Stumble Upon
StumbleUpon helps people discover and share great websites. As you click the Stumble! button in the toolbar, it delivers potentially interesting pages based on your personal preferences. These pages have been recommended by a vast group of other web users with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like (with a thumbs up) automatically shares them with like-minded people. The thumbs up simultaneously acts as a quick bookmark for favorites that you can reference again later.
Digg
Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.
