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I remember seeing something similar a long time ago. As I can remember you were able to scribble on a website, and everyone else using that plugin or website (I

by atum47 4y ago

I remember seeing something similar a long time ago. As I can remember you were able to scribble on a website, and everyone else using that plugin or website (I don't remember if it was a software or site) would see what you have drawn.

andyjohnson0 4y ago
Back in the early 00s there was a browser plugin called Third Voice that did this. I seem to remember people got concerned that it would lead to "graffiti-ing" of websites. I don't remember what happened to it.
- helloworld 4y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice
xeonmc 4y ago
Wasn't it one of the marketed feature of Microsoft Edge before it was scrapped and replaced with Chromium?
reaperducer 4y ago
I remember seeing something similar a long time ago. If memory serves me, something similar was very briefly a feature of Internet Explorer. Except with the IE version, everyone else using IE (which was everyone, even Mac users) could also see everyone else's notes. The project was discontinued over concerns about intellectual property and defacing other people's web sites. It was a long time ago (as illustrated by the reference to IE for Mac ), so I may have some details confused.
prawn 4y ago
I recall this too. It was very controversial at the time and fizzled out.
- lawrencehook 4y ago
  I'm a big fan of Streaks!
rrdharan 4y ago
This was genius.com’s pitch at one point right after they secured a massive funding round from a16z I believe - “annotate the web!”. Didn’t really work out for them: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/genius-sold-medialab-which-is-making-layoffs-music-lyrics-1235066298/ https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/genius-sold-medialab-w...
evross 4y ago
Hypothesis is one that has been interesting to use for web article annotation. It lets you save quotes and comments on articles https://web.hypothes.is/ https://web.hypothes.is/
- stereoradonc 4y ago
  A terrible product (none for Firefox) and has a user hostile attitude to export your data. Avoidable.
- Diris 4y ago
  A great product, it has support for practically any browser thanks to the bookmarklet and chrom(ium) extension [0]. I mostly use it on PDFs (e.g. papers). I definitely recommend it. [0] https://web.hypothes.is/start/ https://web.hypothes.is/start/
max-ibel 4y ago
A big problem from what I recall were legal ones. E.g., owners of a website did not fancy random comments graffitied over their content. I believe a few lawsuits were filed. Also spam problems arose. This caused the makers of such software to hobble functionality, making the resulting product less interesting and so these products were not successful. This may be a good application for decentralized storage with free browser extensions that would circumvent much of the legal threads - although I imagine lawsuits could and would still be filed against Chrome, Firefox etc for enabling such extensions, even if they were free.
netsharc 4y ago
I used this for a while in 1999... http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html I imagine nowadays all the notes would just be like any online comments section: fighting and name-calling about anything and everything
- lawrencehook 4y ago
  this is fascinating, I was 4 years old haha
vxNsr 4y ago
StumbleUpon had something like this, you could go to a webpage and comment on it and others could see your comments. I stopped using it as it was a massive time waster/procrastination tool. But was pretty cool.

by atum47 4y ago

andyjohnson0 4y ago

Back in the early 00s there was a browser plugin called Third Voice that did this. I seem to remember people got concerned that it would lead to "graffiti-ing" of websites. I don't remember what happened to it.

helloworld 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

xeonmc 4y ago

Wasn't it one of the marketed feature of Microsoft Edge before it was scrapped and replaced with Chromium?

reaperducer 4y ago

I remember seeing something similar a long time ago. If memory serves me, something similar was very briefly a feature of Internet Explorer. Except with the IE version, everyone else using IE (which was everyone, even Mac users) could also see everyone else's notes. The project was discontinued over concerns about intellectual property and defacing other people's web sites. It was a long time ago (as illustrated by the reference to IE for Mac ), so I may have some details confused.

prawn 4y ago

I recall this too. It was very controversial at the time and fizzled out.

lawrencehook 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Streaks!

rrdharan 4y ago

This was genius.com’s pitch at one point right after they secured a massive funding round from a16z I believe - “annotate the web!”. Didn’t really work out for them: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/genius-sold-medialab-which-is-making-layoffs-music-lyrics-1235066298/ https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/genius-sold-medialab-w...

evross 4y ago

Hypothesis is one that has been interesting to use for web article annotation. It lets you save quotes and comments on articles https://web.hypothes.is/ https://web.hypothes.is/

stereoradonc 4y ago
A terrible product (none for Firefox) and has a user hostile attitude to export your data. Avoidable.
Diris 4y ago
A great product, it has support for practically any browser thanks to the bookmarklet and chrom(ium) extension [0]. I mostly use it on PDFs (e.g. papers). I definitely recommend it. [0] https://web.hypothes.is/start/ https://web.hypothes.is/start/

max-ibel 4y ago

A big problem from what I recall were legal ones. E.g., owners of a website did not fancy random comments graffitied over their content. I believe a few lawsuits were filed. Also spam problems arose. This caused the makers of such software to hobble functionality, making the resulting product less interesting and so these products were not successful. This may be a good application for decentralized storage with free browser extensions that would circumvent much of the legal threads - although I imagine lawsuits could and would still be filed against Chrome, Firefox etc for enabling such extensions, even if they were free.

netsharc 4y ago

I used this for a while in 1999... http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html I imagine nowadays all the notes would just be like any online comments section: fighting and name-calling about anything and everything

lawrencehook 4y ago
this is fascinating, I was 4 years old haha

vxNsr 4y ago

StumbleUpon had something like this, you could go to a webpage and comment on it and others could see your comments. I stopped using it as it was a massive time waster/procrastination tool. But was pretty cool.