Social bookmarking shootout: Diigo vs ma.gnolia
There seems to have been a bumper crop of social bookmarking services recently. There’s the grandaddy of them all, de.icio.us; a brace of followers, Spurl and Furl; and then the newbies (or abecedarians) Diigo and ma.gnolia. As far as I know, the last two offer something not provided by the others—-private bookmarks. That might seem somewhat antithetical to the social aspect of bookmarking, but if you’re putting a lot of effort into filing links using one of these services, it would be really nice to store all your bookmarks there, and so have access to your bookmarks wherever you were.
I was lucky enough to get beta accounts at both Diigo and ma.gnolia, and have had some interesting exchanges with developers of both services. So I thought that I’d write about my impressions of them. I should point out that both services are being added to all the time, and some of the things I’d like to see appear seem to be possibilities for the future, or are planned features.
