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 ...

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, ...

The social bookmarking, web annotation and research tool Diigo is launching a redesign and refresh today. The site has 7 million registered users, but the boot-strapped company is seeking a path to ...

Looking to help jump-start a new era in annotating Web text, leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz today said that it's investing $15 million in RapGenius, a startup that enables such ...

Collaborative annotation of web pages is something many people are working on. The newest entrant in the field, Fleck, is launching tonight at the TechCrunch party in New York. The Fleck team hails ...

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 ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Aleina Wachtel, product manager of the Microsoft Word team, recently published a blog post stating that Microsoft has added a filtering annotation function to the web version of Word. Excerpts from ...

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 ...