Diigo vs. Delicious
Diigo is so much more that Delicious that it’s not even funny. When I started using more web 2.0 tools in earnest, Delicious had been out of awhile and Diigo was relatively new. It was immediately apparent that the popularity of the former was because of it’s early mover advantage. It was out in front with a large user base, while Diigo had a MUCH richer feature set, but was behind.
Why is Diigo better? Annotations. It’s the main course of this app, and the social aspect is the icing on the cake only. They are different tools with different strengths, yet Diigo can do what Delicious can’t. There is no vice versa. Where the value of Delicious is seeing what everybody says (and this is often gamed by people with an agenda), Diigo let’s you build a potentiality infinite personal database, easily dissected and made into various lists by name or keyword. If you want to check it against the rabble, you can see if others have bookmarked it…yay
Diigo makes the web readable and writable. It has enhanced my use of the web more than any other tool. You should use it, period
