Diigo and Delicious are both bookmarking sites. The key idea is that it’s a collection of your bookmarks that you can reference very easily, find related bookmarks and users or others who are interested in the same subject as you.
A few key differences are in the way that the bookmarks are classified. Diigo makes it very easy to find others interested in the same topic as you. For instance searching “education” brings up a number of others who have bookmarked education related topics. You can then click on their links to see the topic. Delicious works differently in that you can search by a topic but it returns a list of bookmarks rather than a user. Delicious seems to be a wider ranging resource in that the search returns are and can be tangentially related to the topic whereas the Diigo search returns users who have bookmarked the topic with more specific results.
You can filter the search by topic at delicious by tags, but once again it seems to return much broader results than diigo.
I currently bookmark sites in Firefox and create folders for the various bookmarks. This can be unweildy at times but it seems to work just fine for me. One of the shortcomings for this method is accessing my information from other computers. With either diigo or delicious, I can access my bookmarks from any internet enabled computer.
For educational purposes, I like the way diigo works over delicious. I like the ability to search for users with the same interests as mine. I feel that it might be useful to use diigo, for my students to search for me/or give them a direct link to my bookmarks and I could bookmark articles of interest or of use to my students.
I also bookmarked sites just using my current browser. I like the idea of having them online and that they are easily retreived at school or home. I'm with you, Diigo wins. I like it much better than Delicious.
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You can export your firefox bookmarks and bring them into Diigo. First export your FF bookmarks and save them into a file, then go to Diigo, click on tools up at the top, then when that window opens, to the left will be a box and then click on more tools and it will give you import and export features in Diigo. I use chrome with an igoogle account and it keeps my bookmarks synced across computers, but it is always good to have a back up. :)
ReplyDeleteI love having the bookmarks on Diigo as well. It's so great!
ReplyDeletehaha, I do what you do and make folders in my firefox bookmarks. It works for me and I like it that way!
ReplyDeleteI think for research... like finding content... I like Delicious but Diigo is great when it comes to highlighting and the sort. Great post!
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