comments below On Jan 31, 2008 10:37 PM, Adrian Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/02/2008, at 2:23 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: > > > are you referring to http://www.mystickies.com/ ? > > > > i think there are several services like this now (sort of defeats the > > point) > > > > i recall a firefox plugin > > > > always been surprised that this did not take off more. weren't there > > libel issues in the early days that dampened this a bit? > > > hi Markus > > yep, that's them :-) > > in the hypertext development community there was an effort to make > (well, they did make) systems that let you annotate any other webpage > and these annotations would be stored centrally to be distributed to > others who used the service. The point was to add another layer on top > of published page, much like how you make annotations when reading a > book, but of course to share these. > > thinking out of left field, this would be really cool using flash or > QT as you could have a layer (toggle its visibility) which could show > such annotations, eg othre videos elsewhere that refer to this > particular video. Could be time based too...
This strikes me as the most brilliant idea of all. To turn the web into a giant media rich wiki with infinite version history. What's more i think it's 100% doable technically, theoretically and financially It solves many of the issues I've seen with the media web. I'd mentioned Ted Nelsen's Zanadu project and it's many reincarnations all of them ending up being vaporware and existing almost completely in theoretical or academic relm despite millions of dolllars. I don't know half the specifics, but there's definitely some parrallels. I'd always had this idea of "broadband communities" or 'aggregatory communities"... but what if instead of aggregating these communities and the many webservices which served them brought the commentary, the context to the original content in layer upon layer. Sort of proxy services. Add in not just sticky notes, but media remixing, rewriting, and history but actual functionality changes as is starting to happen with greasemonkey and you have not just worlds upon worlds with different perspective but also that function differently. Maybe that is more the social network of the future. Something you try on like a new set of glasses. -Mike > cheers > Adrian Miles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > bachelor communication honours coordinator > vogmae.net.au > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
