Researching new Internet tools: Diigo

Because I became so enthusiastic about exploring new tools on the Intertnet, I thought I would try out Diigo. For the ones, who haven’t heard about it yet, Diigo is a social bookmarking website which combines a number of really useful tools and tasks into a simple interface. It has various features like bookmarks, which can be saved locally or to several popular online favorites-sharing services, web page saving, with annotation and tagging capabilities, a blog publishing tool and a search toolbar.
It is accessible through a toolbar, which you can simply download. To bookmark a page, you simply click the "Diigo" button on the toolbar. It allows users to add highlights and sticky notes to any page they read. Users can highlight text from the page (multiple sections or an entire page)to save it with the bookmark. Diigo also lets users share those bookmarks with other people, because there is a tab that lets them email the bookmark. It has also a ''forwarding'' feature which allows users to send full pages (even multiple) and annotations.
I like Diigo because, like the team at Diigo says, it turns the entire web into a writable, participatory and interactive media. Sharing bookmarks is easy and fast. I used Mendeley until now, but I will really consider also using this tool from now on. It is a little more complicated than Mendeley at first (maybe because I am so used to the latter), but it is definitely worth trying it out. If you are not convinced yet, visit their page, where you can take a tour.