Diigo

Diigo will one day take the place of the morning paper. It is a way to filter the world to fit your interests and ambitions so that time and energy is not lost on the search for meanigful or applicable information. I have found Diigo extremely easy to use. I had heard about it before but hadn't had the time to investigate it. Now I just need the time to add all of my favorite websites to it. I think it will be a great way to work with my study abroad students and colleagues as well as in my upcoming Technology and Teaching course.

[|http://www.diigo.com/] One of the great features of Diigo is its flexibility. You can:
 * Use it for personal bookmarks with annotations, which are available from any computer, and not just on your desktop.
 * Tag each bookmark with several tags, to store it in and retrieve it from several categories.
 * Create lists of bookmarks on special topics or for special purposes, such as a class, and each bookmark can appear in more than one list.
 * Keep any or all of the above private, shared with a group, or public.
 * Highlight text and make comments on bookmarked pages, for your own use, or to share.
 * See what others who bookmark your links have also bookmarked - that sometimes leads you to new and interesting materials (and an hour spent surfing...)
 * "Follow" the bookmarks of other people.
 * Create an interest group for sharing and discussing bookmarks, such as http://groups.diigo.com/group/sloan_c.
 * Send messages to other Diigo users.
 * Install the Diigo toolbar on your IE or Firefox browser (and others), or install a "diigolet" application on other browsers, which allows you to set up a bookmark from your browser, without opening a window on Diigo.
 * Import bookmarks from other bookmarking applications such as delicious.com
 * Export bookmarks to other bookmarking applications, such as delicious.com
 * Back up your bookmarks to your computer ... just in case.
 * And more! (I haven't explored Diigo any further than this).

With these features, Diigo can support individual or group research, creation of annotated bibliographies, group discussion of topics in a course, creation of a pool of shared bookmarks in a course, creation of a reading list for a course, and probably a whole lot more.