Diigo adds social network features

Diigo (previous coverage) makes a rich and complex online tool kit. It's a product that's easily dismissed as yet another social-bookmarking tool, yet another Web "clip" saver, or yet another Web page annotator. It is all those things, which makes for a tough pitch. But it's a powerful tool that several people I know swear by.

Diigo lets your community annotate Web pages.

(Credit: Diigo)

At the DemoFall 2007 conference tomorrow, the company will be showing off the 3.0 version (which should go into public beta in a few weeks) that CEO Wade Ren previewed for me recently. It pushes on the social angle: it creates a "content-centric social network," in which people are connected by what they clip, tag, and highlight. Users will be able to find their "neighbors," based not on who is a friend to whom, but rather by who is interested in what. It's actually somewhat similar to Digg's new social network, although Diigo has a much smaller and more serious user community, and a more robust tool set for its users.

I've said before that Diigo's rich tools will reward commitment, quite unlike many current Web 2.0 products that give you instant gratification but don't have much depth. Diigo's new social features add to the product's strength, but they don't make it any easier to get into. I'm looking forward to the demo of this product to see if the audience truly gets what they are looking at.

A Facebook version of Diigo is coming soon, too. That should be very interesting.

See also: Del.icio.us, Clipmarks, ActiveWeave, Jeteye.

[Harl A Quin]

Diigo, how do you get in touch with them?

Would be a great and useful tool if I could get it to work. No bookmark importing, keeps logging me in and out for no reason, no way I can see to get in touch with them and ask why. Anyone help?

[Joelatdiigo]

You can contact Diigo in forum.diigo.com

Hi, Harl:
This is Joel from Diigo. You can contact us in forum.diigo.com. What's tool you use in diigo? Diigolet, Diigo FF toolbar or Diigo IE toolbar? If you use diigolet, it needs you to login when the a new FF window opened. For Diigo toolbar, you will not experience this issue.

[lissack]

It needs a new interface

perhaps a link with say http://researchbitch.com?

[Joelatdiigo]

which company has generated the most buzz?

Thanks for your prompt coverage of Diigo.

Check this out: we have created a WebSlides for all the presenting companies at this conference and their alexa traffic charts. http://slides.diigo.com/list/techdude/demofall2007_alexa

Playing it allow you to quickly visit all the companies and see their latest Alexa ratings. Not just live webpages, note that you can annotate on those pages on the fly as well! Wouldn't it be fun to use this to quickly check which company has generated the most buzz after the conference :-)