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Diigo users have the ability to write on the Web, adding new layers on top ofindividual Web pages. Every sticky note and highlight added across the Web expandsDiigo s dedicated social information network, allowing users to discuss contentdirectly on each page.
Diigo users can also now create or join groups. Diigo groups provide a forum forcollaborative research and learning - connecting people with similar interests.Users can pool their findings through group bookmarks, highlights, and sticky notes.Researchers can also create private groups for sharing and collaboration amongspecific teams. Combined, Diigo's annotation capabilities and content-centric social networkingoffer greatly increased potential for communication, productivity, andcollaboration.
Diigo also introduces the ability to publish interactive slideshows of Web pages,based on feeds or lists of bookmarks. The new WebSlides widget is an embeddableplayer that can showcase live web pages on blogs, Web sites, or other socialnetworks. Diigo users can also annotate each page in a slideshow with sticky notesand highlights.
Diigo offers a variety of productive ways for people with common interests to easilyfind one another and aggregate into specific groups or communities. "InterestNeighbors" help people identify other users who share similar interests; "SiteCommunities" unite users who annotate the same website; "Advanced People Search"identifies users based on reading interests and their profile information; and"Friends" creates a connection between people.
"Diigo combines the best of social networking, bookmarking, highlighting, andannotating to let people discover, save, and share the information that is importantto them personally or professionally," said Wade Ren, CEO of Diigo. "Not only canpeople find a collective repository of searchable and relevant information, but theycan markup and save information along the way - all while connecting withlike-minded people for future collaboration."
It would be easy to dismiss Diigo as yet another social bookmarking tool, but thatwould be a big mistake, said Chris Shipley, executive producer of DEMO. Diigo'shighlighting, bookmarking and site sharing tools are a subset of features in a richcollaborative application that puts information discovery and the writable Web atthe center of discussions among colleagues, friends, and like-minded people. Diigorepresents a move to maturity in the Web 2.0; it is a business tool, leveragingsocial models to deliver real value to its users.
About Diigo
Diigo provides a suite of online and collaborative research tools for individualsand work groups. Diigo enables seamless bookmarking, tagging, highlighting,clipping, sharing, annotation, and information search to deliver a new level ofproductivity for knowledge workers. Diigo Groups are a simple, cost-effectiveplatform for collaborative research. Upcoming releases will transform Diigo'spowerful social bookmarking, social annotation and social networking suite into thenext-generation knowledge management platform for enterprises. Diigo is privatelyheld, and is based in Reno, NV.
