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There have been many such systems. I built one in the early 2000s and tried to raise money around it, to no avail. At the time there were several commercial com
by vannevar 11y ago
There have been many such systems. I built one in the early 2000s and tried to raise money around it, to no avail. At the time there were several commercial competitors, including one well-funded venture called ThirdVoice. Wikipedia has some information on the history of the genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation .
- bjelkeman-again 11y agoThere where a bunch of us trying it. We created a corporate version for web site annotation and collaboration. We lost our best chance for funding just as the market cratered. Having seen several more since then I don't think the market is there for it. People still rather print/screen capture/write an email/annotate PDF versions, about changes in websites rather than use an annotation tool on the page it seems.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> People still rather print/screen capture/write an email/annotate PDF versions, about changes in websites rather than use an annotation tool on the page it seems. The reason seems fairly obvious - printing/screen capture/PDFs are off-line. Permanent and under user's control. Internet based annotations are inherently unstable - one way today, different tomorrow, completely gone next week. I always found the concept a great thing for sharing thoughts with people, but a terrible one for personal notes.
- bjelkeman-again 11y agoI don't think I put it in the right context. Personal notes wasn't what I was aiming for, but collaboration around content.