Comments on: Boredom With Blogging http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/12/12/boredom-with-blogging/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:05:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Maggie http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/12/12/boredom-with-blogging/#comment-792 Maggie Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:56:07 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2005/12/12/boredom-with-blogging/#comment-792 Hi Rob, While we all can appreciate the power of network effect and certainly understand the reluctance of wanting to try out another new website that appears to be just “improvement” to some existing tools that one is customized to, Diigo is actually designed with a different purpose in mind: to allow users to add highlight and put up a sticky note (private or public) directly on any part of a webpage just like reading a book, so one can quickly and effectively compile, extract, collaborate and share the online research findings with others. Online bookmarking is just a natural extension of the above functions and allows an effective way to search and archive for yourself or public sharing. Everything (highlight, annotate, bookmark, forward) is done through a simplistic, integrated “Diigo” button. There are also fairly rich set of functionalities, but some may be subtle. For example, within “My Bookmarks” section, many edit functions are accessible through a simple pull-down menu. There are also many customized option setting in the toolbar (under Diigo / Options), such as default settings for bookmarks / privacy, style of your highlight, and customized multi-category search. This is a subtle feature, but personally I found the mutli-category search a very useful tool since at one single box, I can conduct search in any specified category with multiple search engines that I set. So for example, instead o f a bookmark search within Diigo, I enter a stock symbol and select "Stock Search" -- the default stock search engine result will show up first. But if you hold your cursor next to the pull-down arrow for 2 seconds (small delay is on purpose), a 4-tab window with other user-defined search engines in that category show up, which allows you to conduct quick search through multiple search engines without re-entering the keyword and typing other search engine URL. We’re still making some improvements so Diigo is still under closed beta and only available by very limited invitation. If you find it interesting, please give it a try. Thanks Hi Rob,

While we all can appreciate the power of network effect and certainly understand the reluctance of wanting to try out another new website that appears to be just “improvement” to some existing tools that one is customized to, Diigo is actually designed with a different purpose in mind: to allow users to add highlight and put up a sticky note (private or public) directly on any part of a webpage just like reading a book, so one can quickly and effectively compile, extract, collaborate and share the online research findings with others. Online bookmarking is just a natural extension of the above functions and allows an effective way to search and archive for yourself or public sharing. Everything (highlight, annotate, bookmark, forward) is done through a simplistic, integrated “Diigo” button.

There are also fairly rich set of functionalities, but some may be subtle. For example, within “My Bookmarks” section, many edit functions are accessible through a simple pull-down menu. There are also many customized option setting in the toolbar (under Diigo / Options), such as default settings for bookmarks / privacy, style of your highlight, and customized multi-category search. This is a subtle feature, but personally I found the mutli-category search a very useful tool since at one single box, I can conduct search in any specified category with multiple search engines that I set. So for example, instead o f a bookmark search within Diigo, I enter a stock symbol and select “Stock Search” — the default stock search engine result will show up first. But if you hold your cursor next to the pull-down arrow for 2 seconds (small delay is on purpose), a 4-tab window with other user-defined search engines in that category show up, which allows you to conduct quick search through multiple search engines without re-entering the keyword and typing other search engine URL.

We’re still making some improvements so Diigo is still under closed beta and only available by very limited invitation. If you find it interesting, please give it a try. Thanks

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