Diigo vs. Scoop.it

Both Diigo and Scoop.it are so called content curator by Stephanie Frasco. Here are several aspects of what they have in common. Firstly, they have extensions on Google Chrome or small button located on toolbar, which are easy as well as immediate to use. Secondly, multiple tags are provided for  content categorizing. Thirdly, because they form a sharing community, they allow users to follow topics, other users and even groups. However, after learning the introduction videos and experiencing them, I find that they do have a myriad of differences. Among them, Diigo has relatively prominent features for choosing between them. 

Diigo:

1. allow users to highlight texts and displayed wherever you logged in.
2. can be on the top of your google research entries.
3. has relatively straightforward tag list for users to categorize resources. 
4. users formed a community can send message to communicate with each other.
5. has more effective functions such as "read later"and "snapshot".

Scoop.it: 

1. has a beautiful webpage dedicated to topics.
2. is more visualized (with pictures and charts) when browsing resources.

I do not experience all of their features, so I cannot tell all the differences between them, since I just start to use those two content curators. Yet from the comparisons above, I prefer to use Diigo with its diversified functions and features. Diigo has its most fascinating tool to me, say "Read Later", so that you can save your resources when you don't read them right now for some reasons. Besides,  as social networking tool for academic purpose, Diigo looks more concise and more formal, with less polished home page. The Scoop.it, on the contrary, has more or less a sense of entertainment with colorful buttons and posts, and it reminds me of Pinterest, but Scoop.it is good for not causing visual fatigue. As to multiple tags, the tag list by Diigo is good for my students to find related resources faster, because the list is located at the homepage. Unlike Diigo, the tag list by Scoop.it is under each topic, which means students have to open the target topic and find the filter button and click the tag(s) they want. For my students and followers, the concept of "library" shows how wonderful Diigo is. With collected what I find online, tags are like bookshelves for students and followers to find decently categorized resources. Isn't it a nice tool for a sharing teacher?