Marshall Kirkpatrick just wrote up a great new tool, Fleck. A great idea, very much in the line of Diigo or MyStickies. He suggests that the interface is “easier on the eyes” than these. I found Mystickies to be very simple to use, and liked the interface a lot too.
What these guys do is very cool. They create a sharable URL that a group can congregate around at which there’s an annotatable copy of a web page, and then mark it up collaboratively. Fleck introduces some nice Wiki like concepts for the collaboration too.
Marshall mentions that we’re just around the corner. Definitely! Zero friction… we won’t be that tomorrow, as we can’t deliver our mission of “what you care about, where you are” without being “where you are” with you, as a part of the browser. There’ll be a download and it’ll be worth it.
We think that there’s a huge value in being able to see a meta-web of annotations from your personally chosen sources, social, commercial, web services, blogs, all dealing with what you’re looking at, in-place where you’re looking. For that we’ve created a platform that lets people rendezvous anywhere on the web without any explicit action on their part.
As they say in Thailand, “same same but different.”
Hi, this is an interesting space and I think the attention is proof that people are indeed waiting for a tool like this. Whether it will be Fleck.com, Stickis.com or another start-up remains to be seen. Time will tell!