seems like a good idea to me

i see it as particularly valuable for group discussion of documents (like goodnotes above)

maybe “web page” are only an early iteration of what highly networked communication can be

web 2.0 is allowing more interactivity in any case – extending the page idea into new forms

interesting, thanks …

It seems the company has de-emphasised this aspect of their business to concentrate on server-based knowledge management software, but the product I once used is still available as iMarkup Desktop Client at the included URL (http://www.imarkup.com/client/imarkup_client.asp.) It’s priced at about $40.

- The PloneStickies home page.
- A roadmap of future development.
- Notes on motivations, challenges, and future directions
- A working demo of just the pure js/css sticky notes, that are designed to be adapted to any online environment.

In our experience, we have discovered the differences between annotating arbitrary content on the web, and annotating content w/in an environment where you control both the client and the server (ie, a CMS or an LMS).

The possibilities afforded by taking advantage of server-side intelligence are tough to pass up – things like searchable stickies, workflowable stickies, keyword stickies (think tagging), and runtime configurable placement policy are all problems that are much more tractable when annotating content within the system.

If anyone is interested in learning more about our project, or potentially collaborating on its future development, please contact me.

This is it allows for closer integration; so, for example, annotations are associated not only with a web page and a chunk of text, but also with the title and author of that highlighted text. This makes integrated searches and summaries possible (show me all of the annotations in a given discussion thread, for example). Annotations are tied to a chunk of content, so even if it appears on a different page (e.g. a different forum message view), the annotation can still be present. The great disadvantage is that this requires integration with the host application: it can’t be used to annotate arbitrary web pages.

One other feature I’m playing with is generating an RSS/Atom syndication feed of annotations, so that it’s possible to subscribe to a user’s annotations and read them – along with excerpted text, author, title, and a link to their context – in a feed aggregator.

I have more information, including GPL source code, at http://www.geof.net/code/annotation/ (or click on my name below).

Stumbled upon this work from Ulises Ali Mejias on http://ideant.typepad.com/ideant/2005/05/facilitating_th.html. In it he outlines some of his ideas on how discourse can be more appropriatly integrated with the web. In particular he provides six char…

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Facilitating the Social Annotation and Commentary of Web Pages .

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