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Feedly – Delicious – Digg Synergy FTWToday

I noticed today while browsing my river on Feedly that it ‘enhanced’ one of my del.icio.us bookmarks with commentary from Digg on the same article.  As far as I can tell, it did not find the Digg entry based on the URL, but rather on the title of the article.  Very cool!  Also, the list of other recent del.icio.us bookmarks in the column on the right.

You may have noticed that the URL in question is actually one from Diigo.  I actually have my Diigo annotations being pushed to del.icio.us automatically. Also, not in this screenshot is a link to the original Digg article at the bottom of the comment thread.

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I Gave Blood, And I Feel FineYesterday

So yesterday, as I walked toward the building I work in, I saw a colorful blood donation van.  I decided right there that, after getting myself situated, I would head back down and give.  Heck, it had been over 8 years since the last time.. so I did.

I’m not sure why, but since that time, I have had more energy and a more optimistic outlook.  Even with the bad news in the economy the tense political race, I’m feeling upbeat.

Ok.. maybe parting with a pint of my life essence isn’t what started this transformation.  It may also have been the fortune I got at my favorite Vietnamese restaurant after lunch.

Tell Me About DiigoOctober 2

How many of you made the switch from Windows 3.11 (or WFW 3.1) to Windows 95? Come on.. I know there’s more of a couple of you that have. What was one of the biggest difference between the two OSs? Better network drivers?  Improved memory management?  Unified driver model?

I would hazard to say that one of the biggest differences was the ability to do most operations in the OS in more than one way.  Sure, now we take it for granted; but back then it was huge.  There were a lot more right-click context menus.  The control panel was completely overhauled.  For the first time in Windows, you were able to tasks such as changing your background image either from the control panel or directly from a right-click on the desktop.

Keep this in mind as we explore Diigo, the web bookmarking research tool and community.  As I researched it for this review, I got the same feeling of having multiple paths to a goal.  The developers tried very hard to let you use the service the way that best fits your workflow.  And that isn’t a bad thing!

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100th Post!September 25

I’d like to make a small announcement that this is Scribkin’s 100th post.  It’s been a long time coming, especially the last 20, but I finally made it.  I am definitely looking forward to writing 100 more!

I’d like to thank Colin Walker (FF), Sarah Perez (FF), Corvida (FF & Twitter), Steven Hodson (FF),  Louis Gray (FF),

Diigo Tests Group ThumbsSeptember 22

I haven’t seen anyone in my immediate circle of social media followers reporting on this, so here is a small update on Diigo, a relatively new social bookmarking site with a lot of features.

Diigo tries enable a lot of ways of using its service and related features.  You can use it exactly like del.icio.us to bookmark and tag web sites you may want to search for later.  But you can also use it to share interesting bookmarks with your friends, discuss content with like-minded folks, and also leave comments on sites that Diigo users can read later!

The feature they are testing out applies to their groups feature.  Now, if you are a member of a particular group in Diigo, you can give certain URLs a thumbs-up if you think it is especially helpful.  They are holding off on deploying this feature site-wide until they can make a determination how game-able the feature is.

Groups are similar to a web forum, but centered more around site bookmarks that are collected