by Michelle Lentz
Diigo, a research and knowledge sharing tool (social bookmarking and annotations), has acquired Furl from LookSmart. Furl is a web page clipping and archiving service, so it seems like a good fit and, because the deal is being pitched as a partnership in exchange for equity, no one is laying out too much cash right now.
According to Ted West, chief executive officer and president of LookSmart, they are “pleased to know that Furl’s loyal user base will benefit from a reliable platform run by a team highly focused on bringing users the most advanced features and functionality in the marketplace. The combination drastically changes the social bookmarking landscape and we look forward to being a part of it.” Brian Solis has worked with Diigo to help increase awareness for the company and its array of curation tools and contextual network.
Diigo offers a popular Twitter This feature, which allows you to easily share things to Twitter while browsing and bookmarking.
Diigo's TwitterThis option
It also allows you to easily add highlights and sticky notes to any webpage, and then share the annotated page to your twitter followers. They will just see an ordinary link in the Twitter message; but when clicking on the link, they can also see your highlights and sticky notes on the webpage.
Diigo is about to launch Diigo 4.0, which, when combined with Furl, will aim to “take social bookmarking/annotation to a new height.”
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