nickstenning

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   by nickstenning 14y ago

   We freely admit that there have been many people who've tried to do this, but, to answer your question: Annotator is more granular than Sidewiki (you annotate specific passages within the page), and unlike Reframeit and Highlighter works ac
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   by nickstenning 14y ago

   I'm not so sure. I don't think success (whatever that is) depends on a critical mass. In particular, while AnnotateIt has a bookmarklet (and soon browser plugin) use case, it's also possible for it to be useful to individual sites who can u
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   by nickstenning 14y ago

   "Have you considered creating a bit of javascript that any site can embed on their site that would allow a visitor to annotate?" Yes, we have. It's there on the front page if you scroll down! http://annotateit.org/#develop "Also, have you
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   by nickstenning 14y ago

   Just a brief note to say I totally agree! There's a long list of people who've built similar things and failed. There are two really tough problems in web annotation: 1) changing content and 2) reputation. I freely confess that Annotator/An
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   AnnotateIt and Annotator: a new mode of communication on the web(blog.okfn.org)

   27 points by nickstenning 14y ago|14 comments