Diigo
| File:Diigo logo v2.png | |
| Web address | http://www.diigo.com |
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| Commercial? | Yes |
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Type of site
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Social Annotations, Highlighting and Social Bookmarking |
| Launched | July 4, 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
Diigo /ˈdiːɡoʊ/[1] is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo, or be forwarded to someone else via a special link. The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".[2]
Premium account holders can perform full-text searches of cached copies of bookmarks. A full-text search also searches page URLs, tags and annotations.[3] This means that premium account holders can choose to omit tags that already appear in the text of a page to be bookmarked (although text inside images cannot be searched).
The launch of Diigo met with mixed responses, from the unimpressed[4] to the enthusiastic.[5] Diigo beta was listed as one of the top ten research tools by CNET in 2006.
Outside the website, Diigo's graphical user interface includes an optional bookmarklet, or a customizable toolbar, with various search capabilities. Highlight is enabled by a menu, that can either appear automatically when content is selected, or be embedded into the context menu.
In March 2009, Diigo acquired web-clipping service Furl from Looksmart for an undisclosed price.[6][7]
The site also has an extension available on the Chrome Web Store.[8]
On October 25, 2012, the diigo.com domain was hijacked.[9][10] An unknown attacker changed the authoritative nameserver records ("NS records") for DNS zone DIIGO.COM, temporarily giving control to nameservers at AFRAID.ORG, and causing traffic to be misdirected.[11]
Mobile apps for Diigo are available on iOS, Android[12] and Windows Phone 7.
See also
- Reframe It, a free commenting plug-in compatible with multiple browsers
- ShiftSpace, an open-source web annotation framework for Firefox
- Scrible, a web annotation bookmarklet
- A comparison of many Web Annotation systems
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Diigo is about Social Annotation
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Diigo Launches, Nobody Cares
- ↑ Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool - Search Engine Watch
- ↑ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/
- ↑ http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diigo_acquires_furl.php
- ↑ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oojbgadfejifecebmdnhhkbhdjaphole
- ↑ http://www.diigo.net/about/domain
- ↑ https://twitter.com/diigo/status/261228053961797633
- ↑ http://www.who.is/domain-history/diigo.com
- ↑ Diigo for Android
