Checking out
annotea some
more.
Update: Amaya has a nice annotea client. You can annotate the document or a selection. You can specify more than one annotation server.
Mozilla has a plug in for annotea,
annozilla. Doesn't seem to let you specify WHERE on the page the annotation should go, and doesn't understand the xpointers amaya uses to specify the text to which the annotation applies.
snufkin for IE also does annotations. And other stuff. Amazing. Wish I had more time.
I'm actually really interested in the annotation thing. You could tie it together with
FOAF info, so that whenever you go to a web page, you can see what people whose opinion you value thought of it.
This would fix what sucks about weblogs, which is that you can only look at my stuff in context of my weblog. There's no good way to look at all weblog entries commenting on a given URL.
linkback begins to address this in a different way, in that each page has links back to things people said about it. Annotations have more semantic value than referer links, and they don't rely on being implemented in the page itself (annotation is done using the browsers plug in and server database). For better or worse, third voice's hype about "democratizing the web" also applies: Page authors have no way to limit people from commenting on their page.
Dated: 10/02/2002