OMG! I have been surfing the social bookmarking sites for the upcoming assignment, and I can't believe the difference of what I found versus what I expected to find. I browsed about 11 different sites before I settled on the two I was going to seriously create and compare. I chose Delicious & Diigo. I have been hearing about delicious for over a year now. I have seen the little icons you can click on to add them to your favorites and all that. I expected a freaking awesome site once I got there. And since Diigo was fairly new, I expected something... well, I wasn't expecting much, let me put it that way.
You probably have figured out from my build-up that my expectations were totally wrong!!!
I love Diigo! I really didn't think I was going to get into a social bookmarking site, but I have. I may not use it to connect to other people, but I will use it to manage my bookmarks and find new ones that interest me. There are so many ways that you can navigate through your stuff, and you can make yourself notes & lists & things.
Delicious left me wanting. :( There were no folders, lists or any way for me to organize my bookmarks other than alphabetical and most recent. And If you don't tag them, you can't to a search. Half the time I can't remember what the name of my links are, I just know by content. So I would be out of luck and would have to go down the entire list to search for a bookmark. Not very efficient.
I have explored probably only half of what Diigo has to offer on its site, and its way more than I have found on Delicious, and I have think I have explored most of what they have already.
Its nice when you get a little surprise you weren't expecting.
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Del.icio.us is sort of an acquired taste (lol).
What's funny is that I've used it several times to search for something and lurk at what others have bookmarked, but I've not used it to share my bookmarks. Flickr keeps me occupied, haha!
Hmmm, I'll have to check out Diigo. I definitely was not into del.icio.us or a few of the other sites, but I didn't check out Diigo. Like you, I thought that del.icio.us would be this amazing website since I've heard its name so much. I was very disappointed. I felt like I was just wasting my time on that site.
Thanks for the tip on Diigo!
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