Social Bookmarking: Umstieg auf Diigo

Ich dürfte an der einen oder anderen Stelle bestimmt schon angemerkt haben, dass ich Del.icio.us zur Archivierung meiner Bookmarks verwende. Gerade die einfache Struktur, die große Userzahl und das Tagging-System (damals standen Dienste zur Auswahl, die Kategorien verwendeten) überzeugten mich.

Die aufmerksamen Leser/-innen dürften aber bemerkt haben, dass seit dem Update des Webberichts wöchtenliche Linkshows sowie eine Tag-Cloud in der Sidebar von Diigo auf diesen Seiten zu finden sind. Wie kommt das?

Ganz einfach, ich wechselte klammheimlich zu Diigo über. Nicht unbedingt, weil ich mit Del.icio.us unzufrieden war, sondern da Diigo einige zusätzlichen Funktionen bietet und darüber hinaus optional alle neuen Booksmarks ebenfalls bei Del.icio.us speichert.

Hier eine Übersicht der Diigo-Funktionen im Vergleich zu Del.icio.us:

Diigo	Traditional Browsing	Del.icio.us
Highlight / Annotate/Forward/Blog
Annotate while browsing: Browsing with “highlighter, scanner, and pen”.Add and share Sticky Notes. Unique to Diigo!	Passive browsing: Web pages are read-only.	Not available
Extract highlights: Easily extract and compile all your highlights across multiple pages for a given subject. Unique to Diigo!	No easy way to extract data: except to “copy and paste” individual paragraphs from different pages to a Word document.	Not available
Interact & collaborate: With sticky notes on specific areas of a webpage, interact with people on the very page you are reading. Unique to Diigo!	Isolated: Browsing alone keeps you away from interacting with others and making new friends.	Not available
Forward highligted & annotated pages: Easily refer people to specific contents, possibly with sticky notes within context Unique to Diigo!	Not available	Not available
Tight integration with blogging: Our “Send to Blog” and “Enhanced Linkrolls” make it effortless to move from browsing to blogging Unique to Diigo!	Not available	Limited
Online Bookmarking
Access anywhere, anytime: Keep all your bookmarks online and access them from anywhere, using any browser. Diigo also allows simultaneous bookmarking to several other bookmarking services, as well as the local folders.	Limited access and no back-up: “Favorites” stored on and accessible from only one PC.	Yes, but no simultaneous bookmarking to local folders and elsewhere.
Search: Titles, tags, highlights, notes, full-texts, and user are all searchable, in any combination – A rich advanced search syntax is also supported – find what you need in an instant!	Cannot search “My Favorites”	No full-text search
Set privacy on everything: You decide what to share and what to keep private.	No Sharing: Your bookmarks remain isolated in your local drive.	Yes
Tagging: A better way to organize information and find things faster. Easily pull up bookmark lists associated with multiple tags.	Folders and Sub-folders: “Once in, hard to find”.	Yes
Archive: Save exact copies of the pages you bookmarked, not just links.	No Archive: Web contents of interest to you may disappear.	Not available
Picture collection: Collect your favorite pictures on the web into albums.	Cannot bookmark pictures.	Not available
Easy to re-organize and edit bookmarks: Edit tags (rename, merge, delete) individually, or in batch; edit or delete bookmarks individually or in batch.	Re-organize is a pain (especially for IE). No batch editing.	Limited
“Unread” filter: Bookmarks can be marked as “unread” for later review.	Not available	Not available
Import: privacy settings, tags, and title can be changed individually in the import window before importing, or in batch on the website after importing.	Limited Import: traditional browsers do not support tags, description, & overwrite.	Limited: supported by 3rd party extension.
Subscribe / Post lists: Bookmark lists, either by tag(s), or by a specific user, or any combination, can be subscribed on the website or through RSS. RSS, Linkroll & tagcloud can also be syndicated to other websites / blogs easily.	Not available	Yes
Cached bookmarking: if for any reason, the bookmarking is unsuccessful, it will be cached locally, and re-submitted automatically until succeeding. This powerful feature allows you to bookmark to Diigo even when you lose connections to Diigo servers, either because you lost internet connections or because our servers are down. Unique to Diigo!	Not available	Not available
Community: Discover what the rest of the world has shared: find relevant / new content based on specific users, topics of interest (tags) defined & filtered by other users, hot lists, and more. Best way to leverage the collective wisdom of many!	Solo Discovery: Find contents by yourself	Yes
Other cool features
Other cool features: Bookmark lists can be easily filtered by adding or subtracting tags and or users. A fully customizable search tool that allows you to access any speciality search quickly. Content selection menu makes it extremely convenient to interact with every word on a web page – highlight, search, look up – whatever you want! Customizable options for various settings More, waiting for your discovery! And a lot more on the way!	Not available	Not available

Darüber hinaus bietet Diigo zahlreiche Gruppen an, die den Linkaustausch beleben. Negativ ist mir allerdings die Stabilität des Dienstes aufgefallen. In den paar Wochen, in denen ich nun Diigo nutze hatte ich schon mehrfach Ausfälle, auch wenn es sich dabei teilweise um Updates oder Wartungen handelt. Wenn man aber seine Linkarchivierung rein online gestaltet, sind solche Ausfallzeiten sehr ärgerlich. Um so positiver fällt die doppelte Speicherung der Links auf (Diigo und Del.icio.us parallel), da man hier ein Backup und eine Absicherung im Falle eines Ausfalls hat.

Aus meiner Sicht kann ich trotz der Ausfälle eine klare Empfehlung für Diigo aussprechen und man muss dabei noch nicht mal Del.icio.us untreu zu werden