I had a Delicious account years ago, but I could not find the login information, so I created a new one. After reading the comparisons, I decided to create a Diigo account to compare the two. Again the Yahoo password problem surfaced with Yahoo continually prompting for a password when switching back and forth between the different services. Yahoo asks for my password more often than my bank software! I then exported my bookmarks from Firefox as an html file and imported the file into both Delicious and Diigo. An immediate difference between the two was that Delicious imported 645 bookmarks and Diigo imported 628. Perhaps Diigo checks for duplicates? I then added Newington23 tags to some boating links in both services.
Which one would I pick to use? Diigo has the highlighting and sticky note features, so it wins the comparison on a features basis, but it also has advertising. Diigo is like Delicious on steroids. I can see how these tools would be very helpful in the classroom. Unlike the links we use on our Webnet pages, students could access them at school or at home. Very nice for adding some direction for students on the Internet.
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