The Social Space Station » The move to Diigo

∞ 2/9/2009 (12:43pm) 3 notes

The move to Diigo

The other day I documented the sad and significant data loss at the social bookmarking service I used called Ma.gnolia. It seems recovering this data has proved difficult and it’s still broken (see their Twitter feed for the latest). Now while I am sad about this, I need to move on as those bookmarks won’t save or share themselves!

Ma.gnolia rather magnanimously suggested another service to use in case the worse case scenario plays out (i.e., death of Ma.gnolia). It’s called diigo and I’ve signed up and so far, I’m impressed.

Diigo tools list diigo are about “highlighting and sharing” the web. They provide the usual profile related tools (avatar, about you, interests, contact, websites, etc.), ways to organise bookmarks (tags, lists, groups), community interaction (friend’s activities, comments, messages, finding people, etc.) and an array of tools to collect and share bookmarks as you discover them.

The tool section is comprehensive. Offerings include: a full toolbar (which works for most browsers), usual bookmarklet (enable by dragging to your toolbar list), automated blog updates (although tumblr are not supported at this stage), bookmark importing (from files, delicious, ma.nolia etc.), tag and link rolls (to embed in your blog).

My intended use for diigo is to save links to sites that interest me, automatically import relevent links to this site (by importing the RSS feed from a specified tag - in this case “news”), keeping track of community bookmarks from groups like social media, Web 2.0 and Twitter Freaks and maybe find some like-minded folks.

So far so good. I’ve been able to set everything up, including the feed import into tumblr. The only issue I had, was the surprising omission of an RSS feed from the lists option. RSS feeds seems to be ubiquitous on the site (meaning easy distrbution out of diigo) but just not here. I solved the problem by grabbing the RSS feed off a tag which means that I need to remember to tag every link I want to show up here appropriately.

I recommend giving diigo a go but having said that, I did recommend Ma.gnolia too (caveat emptor).

Find my diigo profile here: http://www.diigo.com/user/socialspacestation