Diigo vs Pinterest

       Diigo is more about academic. The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".When I first knew Diigo from assignment, I felt I would definitely use this tool. Because I can access my favorite websites from any computer not just mine at home.  File a website with multiple tags instead of just putting it in just one folder. In this way I can well organize my saved website and find them efficiently. In the past I saved a lot of websites through favorites and bookmarks. However, gradually I give up to look for the websites I saved. Because there are so many websites that I get confused and crazy when I search for them. Resources are categorised with keywords which can be found through search drives on Diigo.  Diigo also has the ability to show highlighted text on websites and for sticky notes to explain to the website. Pinterest does not have this capability and only saves websites that have an image associated with the page, accompanied by a similar feature to comment on the information. Diigo provides the ability to set up unlimited groups, It is useful if teaching multiple sections or if you share different resources with different groups of people. Diigo has the ability to host a discussion based on a particular comment or resource as well. With Pinterest users can only interact by commenting on other user’s pins or to follow their board creations.

     I remember I know Pinterest earlier than Diigo. I got to know Pinterest from my home-stay mum who is a watercolor painter. She always gets good ideas on drawing from Pinterest. She also finds interesting handicraft designs for me. And then we follow the instructions to make our own handicraft arts. One of my friends even got her wedding design ideas from Pinterest. She had a wonderful and special wedding in Taiwan. For me I like to pin fashionable sites like clothes, makeup, hairstyles. I also pin healthy diet sites because I am losing weight now. Especially, after pinning good healthy diet articles I can share them with my Facebook friends. I like the feelings that my friends on Facebook and Twitter follow me. I can also buy clothes from the images I pin. Maybe someday I will set up my business on Pinterest like selling Chinese traditional handicraft arts, souvenir and help my American mum sell her paintings. So I feel Pinterest is more enjoyable. I really find Pinterest is a place where people can go to get ideas for any project or interest in their life. And as you encounter great ideas and discover new things that you didn’t even know were out there, you can pin them and make them part of your life through boards, which serve as big catalogs of objects. So I will definitely use Pinterest as well for my career and daily life.