I was showering when I suddenly wondered if it is possible to “paste” a post-it note on any webpage. So while wasting Singapore’s precious fresh water, I was pondering over the implementational details of such an idea.
The idea that any user can easily add post-it notes on any webpage, not necessarily their own, would require some kind of DHTML overlay. Perhaps this hypothetical web-tool accepts a URL of your choice and presents a tool……blah blah blah..
After a few litres of water later, I stepped out and googled (in clothing of course). Guess what, someone did it…. here. (pls wait for a while before the notes start to appear)
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June 4th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
2 mins of research with google bought me to http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/fleck/
Apparently fleck is the most basic bare bone type of web annotation available… hmmmm
June 6th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
pretty cool. hahaha…
June 6th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
The first system that has this annotation feature came out in 1993 call Third Voice. Since then owners of websites has seen it as a form of web graffiti. Third Voice did not make money as user size didn’t grow as expected… Goes to show interesting idea without a proper business model will be doomed to fail.