We’ve talked about Google SideWiki and other methods for “Writing in the Internet’s Margins”, but what about some of the other web annotation services out there? This post talks about SideWiki, ...

In February the W3C approved recommendations to enable annotation on the web. There is a long lineage of annotation tools that enable readers of the web to write comments that overlay content and ...

Yet another web annotation service is launching today. WebNotes is releasing virtual highlighting and sticky-note tools designed to help people track and annotate online content. The tools let users ...

Earlier this year, a group of climate scientists were outraged about a Wall Street Journal editorial. In an earlier era, they might have written a letter to the editor, or meekly submitted their ...

Annotation service now has a professional version for users who want to mark up PDFs along with normal Web pages. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about ...

There have been countless efforts to create a usable Web Annotation service. Diigo is one, Fleck is one (our own version) and there was the once popular Third Voice. Nobody seems to have found the ...

Would researchers scrawl notes, critiques and comments across online research papers if software made the annotation easy for them? Dan Whaley, founder of the non-profit organization Hypothes.is, ...

Martin Splitt in a Duda webinar explained a concept called Centerpiece Annotation that discusses how Google analyzes content on a web page. I won’t reproduce the question because it’s somewhat off ...