Diigo

DiigoFile:Diigo logo v2.png

Type of site

| Social Annotations, Highlighting and Social Bookmarking
Website| www.diigo.com
Commercial| Yes
Launched| July 4, 2006
Current status| Active

Diigo /ˈdiːɡoʊ/[1] is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo, or be forwarded to someone else via a special link. The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".[2]

Premium account holders can perform full-text searches of cached copies of bookmarks. A full-text search also searches page URLs, tags and annotations.[3] This means that premium account holders can choose to omit tags that already appear in the text of a page to be bookmarked (although text inside images cannot be searched).

The launch of Diigo met with mixed responses, from the unimpressed[4] to the enthusiastic.[5] Diigo beta was listed as one of the top ten research tools by CNET in 2006.

Outside the website, Diigo's graphical user interface includes an optional bookmarklet, or a customizable toolbar, with various search capabilities. Highlight is enabled by a menu, that can either appear automatically when content is selected, or be embedded into the context menu.

In March 2009, Diigo acquired web-clipping service Furl from Looksmart for an undisclosed price.[6][7]

The site also has an extension available on the Chrome Web Store.[8]

On October 25, 2012, the diigo.com domain was hijacked.[9][10] An unknown attacker changed the authoritative nameserver records ("NS records") for DNS zone DIIGO.COM, temporarily giving control to nameservers at AFRAID.ORG, and causing traffic to be misdirected.[11]

Mobile apps for Diigo are available on iOS, Android[12] and Windows Phone 7.

## References

1. ↑ Diigo V4: Research ~ annotate, archive, organize (flash) (Presentation). Diigo. 2009-09-24. Event occurs at 0:00.
2. ↑ "Diigo help". http://www.diigo.com/help/about. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
3. ↑ "Full text search". http://help.diigo.com/premium-features/full-text-search. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
4. ↑ "Diigo Launches, Nobody Cares". http://mashable.com/2006/07/24/diigo-launches-nobody-cares/. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
5. ↑ "Diigo Offers “Social Annotation” Tool - Search Engine Watch". Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20081010215708/http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3622969. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
6. ↑ Wauters, Robin. "Diigo Buys Web Page Clipping Service Furl Away From LookSmart". https://techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20090312032353/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/diigo_acquires_furl.php. Retrieved 2009-03-09.
8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20110414100633/https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oojbgadfejifecebmdnhhkbhdjaphole. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20121028162439/http://www.diigo.net/about/domain. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
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11. ↑ "diigo.com historical whois information". http://www.who.is/domain-history/diigo.com. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
12. ↑ "Diigo for Android". http://www.androidblip.com/android-apps/com-diigo-android-8187.html. Retrieved 2016-08-11.

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