You gotta love this prank.

Just a quick update:

• I shan’t be posting much until Monday, as I’m guest writing over at a fantastic blog called Lifehacker. If you don’t already read it, start!
• It’s a fantastic summer so far, if you haven’t already, check it out
• Technorati has had a major facelift, and is most certainly worth checking out. It looks very Web 2.0, though I’m still trying to adjust from it’s old design!
• Incidently, 9rules has relaunched.
• Digg has introduced a sports section, which is extremely US-centred. Also, Digg have launched Digg Labs.

Thanks for your loyal readership, and stay around for updates.

Technorati has got a re-design for it’s third birthday, I think it’s a little too bloated.

PostBubble has launched a podcast about Web 2.0. The Web 2.0 Show is worth checking out too.

Diigo is a site which provides social annotation and social bookmarking, which is basically a cross between Clipmarks and del.icio.us.

Diigo operates through a toolbar, which is available for Firefox, Flock and Internet Explorer. Also, you can run through a bookmarklet for Firefox or Internet Explorer. The bookmarklet is a very interesting use of AJAX, as it allows you to annotate (through highlighting) and bookmark any page without (visually) actually leaving it.

Annotating something through the toolbar is a simple case of selecting text, waiting for a menu to pop up and pressing ‘Highlight’. When you have annotated text, it is underlined with dashes, you can then add a sticky note to the selected text, and choose whether or not if you wish to share that sticky with other users. Your annotations are saved onto Diigo’s website, which allows you to access them on pretty much Internet-connected PC. You can also see who else has annotations on that page.

Diigo also shares many of del.icio.us’ features. You can bookmark a page through the toolbar or bookmarklet, you specify the page with a title, tags and description. You can also choose whether to make it private or public.

Diigo seems to have too many features. For example, when you select text to highlight it, it also gives you the options to search for it. This reminds me a bit of Hyperwords, but in my opinion a feature like that should be reserved for a separate extension, instead of getting integrated with Diigo. Also, Diigo allows you to blog, which is a nifty feature in all fairness - but not highly enough promoted. Another interesting feature is that you can configure it to bookmark to sites like del.icio.us when you bookmark with Diigo.

Diigo is still in a private beta, but I have 20 invites. So, if you’d like to check it out first hand, drop me a comment.

Tags: ajax, social bookmarking, bookmarking, bookmarks, web2.0, web 2.0, web2, web 2, social networking, clipmarks, del.icio.us, delicious