UNFURLING THEIR FLAG
To update my post on social bookmarking, it would seem I reviewed a short-lived service in furl. It has now been absorbed by diigo, which calls itself a web “highlighter”. Such is the nature of the world wild web.
Furl informed me by email that:
The Furl team is very pleased to announce that Furl has become part of Diigo.com. We worked hard to find Furl a home where loyal users like you could continue to benefit from best-of-breed social bookmarking and annotation tools. Hands down, Diigo.com was the winner due to its innovative approach to online research tools and knowledge sharing.
The Diigo team is dedicated to making sure you continue to get top notch features and service. They’ve got a crack team of technologists who love making research and knowledge sharing as easy and efficient as possible. Exporting your data from Furl to Diigo is super easy.
We feel fortunate to have been able to serve as your social bookmarking site provider and can’t thank you enough for your loyal support over the past four years. We’ll miss you and we wish you the best as part of the Diigo community.
I wonder if diigo would get my vote over delicious?
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Diigo gets my vote. I compared delicious to diigo for the social bookmarking assignment and was much more excited by diigo. The highlighting and annotation capabilities are worthwhile additions made possible by diigo retaining a cache of the page (so supposedly, it will still be there when you need it). Additionally, the group feature is enhanced in diigo. You can create various groups with their own discussion boards and share certain bookmarks with particular groups or individuals instead of either marking them “private” or “public”. So you can share your death metal bookmarks with chosen friends but keep them private from your children’s library group.
I hope to do my screencast on diigo. Wait…is that due tomorrow? Ouch.