Delicious vs. Diigo vs. Pinterest

Today I am comparing the three web media tools of Delicious, Diigo, and Pinterest.  I found these to be similar tools for storing and sharing website URLs.  Although each work in basically the same way, each have their differences. 

They each worked similarly in that the URL saved was, essentially, “pinned” to the website.  Each of these sites provides a “bookmarklet” that can be dragged to your toolbar should you not want to download their toolbar separately.  Delicious bookmarklet is displayed on your toolbar as “Add to Delicious”, Diigo’s bookmarklet is “Diigolet”, and Pinterest’s is “Pin It”.  The difference, however, is in what can be “pinned” to the sites.  Whereas Delicious and Diigo will accept any website URL, Pinterest works only with pictures you find on the web. 
 
When a website is found that you want to store and share, click the bookmarklet you want to save it to.  An information box in Delicious and Diigo will come up with the URL and the title of the article.  One can then write a description and choose the appropriate tags.  For Pinterest, it sources the picture back to its origin, and the photo is pinned to a titled “board”, usually with a certain theme.  Your comments/description can then be added.

Delicious and Diigo can be used interchangeably.  What is posted on one can be exported to the other, although I had a problem with that.  Having posted all of my websites on Diigo, I then exported them to Delicious.  However, although I received acknowledgement that they had been exported, my Delicious account had not received them.  Diigo does have a dual posting feature whereby the posts on Diigo will automatically be posted to Delicious.  However, this must be activated prior to posting.

I found that I preferred Diigo to Delicious.  Diigo has more features and helps to organize saved posts better.  Diigo not only bookmarks, but has the ability to highlight text you want to stand out.  It has a “sticky note” feature that can be used to make notes about the article.  The feature I found to be most useful was the “list” feature.  One can group into lists the posts found.  It is a great organizational tool.

Pinterest is a fun media tool to use, especially for those who are very visual.  “A picture is worth a thousand words” so they say.  It is important, however, that when choosing pictures from an online grouped topic to be used on your own personal board of the same topic, that one is selective.  It can be very easy to select all, thereby weakening one’s message.  One thing to be aware of with Pinterest is a photo’s copyright.  

Check out my accounts at Delicious, Diigo, and Pinterest.