Diigo vs. Delicious

Web site bookmarking…

Currently I save my bookmarks on my hard drive of my computer.  I’ve started to use Google bookmarks and find it very easy to use and like the new List feature they have. It reminds me of folders but is not exactly the same.  I don’t like that they don’t help you out with tag or label suggestions, both diigo and delicious have that option.  Five years ago when I was a computer lab teacher in an elementary school I used www.ikeepbookmarks.com.  It was a great site and exactly what I needed at the time.  I have hundreds of sites that I used and teachers in my school.  I kept folders for different grade levels and folders inside those for different projects they were working on.  I loved the organization.  However, I have since forgotten my password and don’t have access to the email account anymore, so I can look at all those bookmarks but I can’t save them anywhere else.  So learn from my mistake, don’t use your school district email address for an account like this.  It’s a sad, sad day when you find you have to save them one by one on a site like diigo.com or delicious.com.

I first learned about diigo.com for this class when our instructor had us use it to find the web sites we needed for this class.  I found it very confusing and didn’t know really what I was looking for or at.  I think my problem was the lack of folders, which is what I was used to in ikeepbookmarks.com.  I’m not a real fan of the list format.  Now that I have my own account and have played around with it I find it very useful.  I especially like the highlight option.  Bookmarking sites is great but when you can highlight the part that is most meaningful, WOW, I find that amazing.  I like the ease of set up and the easy bookmark tool, diigolet you can put on your toolbar.  I like that you have the choice of highlighting, bookmarking or sharing right from that tool. 

I signed up for a delicious.com account and found the set up very easy.  It seems as easy to use as diigo.com but again did not have the folders I really like.  It also did not have the option of highlighting parts of the site and saving it with your bookmark.  Delicious.com is a Yahoo product and I don’t like all the ads associated with Yahoo.  I think this is why I like Google products better.  I know in the end they are all just out to make a buck but I don’t like Yahoo’s style of IN YOUR FACE advertising. 

In the end I think I like diigo.com better because of the highlighting option. I think in education students will be able to see at a glance what they found interesting about a site because of the highlighting.  When students have so many classes keeping information at their fingertips like this will be very helpful.