Delicious or Twine? The answer is Diigo!

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I have for about a year now used delicious for two reasons:

1. The same bookmarks everywhere. I have the same bookmarks in every PC. At home, at work and anywhere else. When I go somewhere, I can walk right in to an Internet café and my bookmarks are there. Even when surfing with my mobile I have the same bookmarks.
2. Sharing bookmarks. I share bookmarks with my colleagues and friends. We never send url’s in emails any more. We use delicious to send bookmarks to each other and we can also look into each others bookmarks. BTW, anyone can see my bookmarks unless I tick “Unshare!

This is great and some of my friends and colleagues do the same so we can share bookmarks.  If you use the Firefox Delicious plug-in it is as easy as saving bookmarks locally. A bonus is the tagging. To set tags is soooo much better than save in folders.

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There is another newer bookmark service called Twine.  You save and tag bookmarks similar to Delicious but Twine offers much more functionality. Things like automatic tags and search for people with certain interests. Sharing Twines (subjects) with both friends and people I don’t know is another function and in a Twine can we save bookmarks and documents. Fine, but I don’t want to administrate bookmarks in two different systems. No one wants that…   Actually I did use both! For a couple of months I have used both systems until a week ago. Twine offer a better way to arrange and maintain knowledge and not just bookmarks. Delicious is easier and faster and I have my network to share bookmarks with there.

A week ago I found Diigo, a beta that so far looks very nice. Diigo have a rich functionality not the same but at the same level as Twine. When I save bookmarks to Diigo I also save to Delicious and gets the same tags! Now I can use Delicious together with my friends and also use the more advanced Diigo by using the one and same save-button.

Diigo has another really unique feature. You can mark an area on the web page and make a comment to that area. You can also put floating sticky notes on the page.  If you use the Firefox plug-in and you open a web page that someone have bookmarked, you can see all the notes that they have put there. Really awesome! You can configure which notes you want to see.

I will mainly work with Diigo as my bookmark service but as long as my network and sharing is still in Delicious I must go in there now and then.

Hmm, how can I convince my colleagues and friends to move to Diigo? I need to set up a plan here…

www.Delicious.com
www.Twine.com
www.Diigo.com

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