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September 12, 2011, 3:00 pm

What’s Next For Delicious?

By George Williams

Hey, remember Delicious? It’s the social bookmarking web service that guest author Derek Bruff praised this time last year. Unfortunately, just a few months later, it became clear that Yahoo–which had acquired Delicious in 2005–was planning on getting rid of the service. (Mark Sample then explored a few “alternatives to Delicious.”)

Well, today we learn via the New York Times that Chad Hurley and Steve Chen–founders of YouTube, before they sold it to Google–”are trying to inject new life into Delicious.” As described in the NYT article, their plans sound pretty interesting:

The current home page of Delicious features a simple cascade of blue links, the most recent pages bookmarked by its users, and it tends to largely be dominated technology news. But the new Delicious aims to be more of a destination, a place where users can go to see the most recent links shared around…

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April 5, 2011, 8:00 am

Keeping Bookmarks and Annotations Handy with the Diigo iPad App

By Mark Sample

Diigo iPad AppIn the past few weeks I’ve been writing about various ways to interact with the social bookmarking service Diigo. Last week I highlighted Diigo’s Power Note app for Android, and before that, Diigo’s Web Highlighter annotation and bookmarking tool for the iPad.

Here’s one more tool to complete the Diigo suite: it’s Diigo for the iPad. Unlike the Web Highlighter, which is a Javascript bookmarklet you install in Safari, the iPad app is a standalone program. You can’t add bookmarks from it or create notes with it; rather, it’s a frontend to all of your existing content already on Diigo. You can browse your bookmarks, edit their tags, and view your annotations. And of course, clicking on any of your bookmarks in the Diigo app will open them in the iPad’s browser. If you’ve invested energy in the Diigo ecosystem, this app is something you’ll want to have.

One thing I haven’t discussed…

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March 29, 2011, 11:00 am

Diigo’s Android Power Note App

By Mark Sample

Diigo's Power Note App for AndroidTwo weeks ago I described the Diigo bookmarklet that lets you annotate websites directly within the iPad’s browser. Android users will be happy to know that Diigo also has an Android app called Power Note.

Power Note is full-featured note-taking tool for Android, similar to EverNote or Catch (formerly known as 3Banana). Like these other apps, Power Note lets you save text notes, voice recordings, and snapshots.

Where Power Note distinguishes itself is its integration with Diigo. Any notes, recordings, or snapshots you take will automatically sync with your Diigo account, so they’re accessible from any browser. You can also quickly view your saved Diigo bookmarks and annotations from within Power Note. And of course you can use Power Note to bookmark pages from within your Android browser.

All-in-all, if you’re a Diigo fan and have an Android phone (or tablet), there’s no reason …

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January 17, 2011, 8:00 am

Alternatives to Delicious

By Mark Sample

A beautiful bookmarkLast month Yahoo announced that it would be “sunsetting” Delicious, the social bookmarking service that many ProfHacker readers use for research, teaching, and collaboration. “Sunsetting” was taken to be an industry euphemism for “killing off,” although the Delicious team announced the following day that they were “not shutting down Delicious.” Rather, Yahoo is looking for a third-party to buy Delicious, which ideally, would continue to operate without any interruption in service. The Delicious developers ended their announcement by saying “there’s no reason to panic,” which of course meant that everyone panicked.

The rush on exporting bookmarks from Delicious was nothing less than a bank run, but unlike many banks, Delicious is still standing a month later. Still, it’s conceivable that at some point in the future Delicious as we know it may change. If that happens, what alternative…

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