Well, the first thing I explored in Diigo was searching the tags for a cupcake recipe. What I enjoyed most about it was that you could see how many people tagged the url. To me, being able to see how many people tagged it, which translates to how popular it may be. I did the same search on Google, and much different sites came up, because in Diigo most of the urls tagged were blogs, where as on google they are professional sites, like Martha Stewart. One other helpful thing I enjoyed was that you could see the “hot tags”, or the tags most commonly used by the users.
Now, we were asked to use these social bookmarking sites, and I stuck with Diigo. One thing I didn’t enjoy was not being able to download the actual diigo toolbar, but they offered a bookmark toolbar add on called Diigolet. This works the same was the tool bar, just you need to click on it and it will stay up as a tool bar just as long as you stay on that one webpage. The only thing I am enjoying is being able to save notes on it, a plus for when reading articles and such that I need to study with. However, I’m finding it very difficult to create bookmarks. The only reason I will now stay with it IS just for the sticky notes and highlighting.
Keep Snackin, I know I’ll have my hot chocolate and gingerbread men!
