Diigo vs. del.icio.us

I've come to discover that I need to make a few changes if I want to access the web 2.0 tools that we have been learning about in this class. I worked at school today through my son's track practice and baseball scrimmage and got very little done. I couldn't access blogspot through the school filter (one of many sites I have not been able to navigate this week). I'm wondering how we are supposed be innovative and motivate our students to learn about and be accomplished users of various technological tools when they are inaccessible, but I digress...

From what I can tell, Diigo and del.icio.us have many similarities. Both are social bookmarking tools. You can add tags to identify bookmarks with both tools. Both give the user the ability to build a Personal Learning Network and share bookmarks with others. Both toolbars, by the way, are also inaccessible from my school computer.

Diigo seems to have a few more bells and whistles than del.icio.us. The user can highlight and ads "sticky notes" to the bookmarked sites in Diigo. Diigo also appears to have capability beyond simply building a network. Diigo allows the user to create collaborative groups. The user can share specific bookmarks with users from their particular company, class, or team.

I can see the usefulness of both tools in the school setting. Teachers could easily share online resources with one another if they were in the same network on either Diigo or del.icio.us. Using Diigo, a teacher could set up capability for students to share resources for research projects, science fairs, presentations, etc. A teacher could bookmark sites used from year to year and not worry about which computer favorites they were saved to. The possibilities are immense.