Library clips

PB Wiki has updated, new features are: embed a spreadsheet (this is different than what JotSpot did with special wiki pages like spreadsheets), voice chat via YackPack, event planning, video upload, and Word Doc Installer…email to a wiki is an essential feature.

Most interesting is the YackPack feature as now the wiki blurs the line into a collaborative telecon whiteboard without having to be a web conference like Vyew (but Vyew does allow post conference asynchronous features).
What I’m not sure about is without a screenshare feature you may not see the others people’s cursors and edits as they happen, JotSpot Live enables you to see real-time edits with requiring a web conference screenshare.

The other feature I like is embedding spreadsheet widgets or pre-defined wiki pages (ie. the wiki page itself is a spreadsheet). I think this will become a common feature of wikis, a wiki page no longer has to be a regular webpage, it can be a spreadsheet page, or a word processor page, etc…why point to these pages when you might want it to be part of the wiki, or at least embedded as widgets.

I wonder what Google will do with JotSpot, maybe the JotSpot wiki will tie together Google Office, where you can create a communal and collaborative website where you can choose the filetype format for each page.
Or perhaps you create the Spreadsheet using Google Spreadsheets, and then at JotSpot when you make a wiki page it can ask if you want to use a Google Office URL as your wiki page, or a choice to embed it.

Perhaps wiki’s as well as being an editing/creation tool can also become an office 2.0 assembly tool, where you can create rich office 2.0n web sites.

Let’s see what other special wiki pages or concepts emerge as the enterprise demands more out of wiki’s…see CogMap for an organisation chart wiki.

Related:
My Documents 2.0

moodmill - mood microblogging, as if Twitter wasn’t initimate enough, also see lifemetric.
I’d like to see a similar site as a status indicator.

OnMyList - make a list, see more.

NoteMesh - collaborative notes for students, kind of a wiki for class notes

NoteTango - similar space as NoteMesh

YourDraft - Share your drafts, other ways are; collaborative note services like Google Notebook, a wiki, office 2.0 word processing, review sites like ReviewBasic, Approver, WriteWith, etc…

Dave Winer is on to something new called Twittergrams, using Twitter as a presence blog that points to mp3 files, click on the mp3 file to listen to a Tweetcast…so basically Tweets are being used to notify you of presence audio bytes.

I tweeted about my ideas on this: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Firstly I posted about a service like Twitter called MySay, only the tweets aren’t text, they are audio tweets.

Another service is NowThen, where the tweets have photos, so they are more MMS rather than SMS.
Then we have Yodio which mixes it all together (audio, photo’s, video, text).

Back to audio…

1.
MySay allows you to send audio from your mobile phone to the web (audio tweets), since Twitter doesn’t allow this the option is to point to an mp3 file in your Tweet.
When people read your tweet on the web they can click the mp3 file and stream or download it, when people read your tweet on their mobile they can click on the mp3 file to stream it (not sure how you would download it on your phone…maybe you could get audio tweets as mobile email attachments or MMS)

2.
To make this easy we preferably need two things: host for audio files, and send audio files to the web from your mobile phone.

Audio byte services like MySay, jott, Evoca, Pheeder surely allow you to email or MMS an audio file from your mobile phone, have to look into this…if they do, then this covers are our requirements.

3.
Twitter would have to be able to recognise and action certain URL’s within Tweets…if I post a Tweet and include a link to a hosted mp3 file, we should be able to click on this and play it within Twitter, just like the del.icio.us playtagger…peterc doesn’t see why not, since their former service, odeo, was all about audio.

Anyway the same goes with actioning other file types, such as a video player for video files and an image viewer for image files.

4.
Just like del.icio.us, your Twitter feed could accept enclosures, so in the end you are Twittercasting or presencecasting.

How it comes together

SENDER
- you are walking home and have a thought to share, you record yourself on your phone audio feature
- you MMS or email your audio file to an audio byte host like MySay or evoca
- somehow you need this service (MySay or evoca) to SMS you the hosted URL created from your audio file
- then you SMS a tweet containing the link to your audio file

RECEIVER
- if a person you follow has posted an audio URL in their Tweet, this tweet will be MMS’d/emailed to you rather than SMS’d, and automatically have the audio URL within the Tweet converted into a file attachment

I’m not too techie on these things, but the concept is there…I’m sure it would be much easier if Twitter incorporated MySay type features, so we wouldn’t have to hack a work around.

Any suggestions?

[ADDED 5/07/07: Just noticed Twittergram is up and running, give your tweet a title and browse/upload your mp3 file, this will be stored on the Twittergram server, hit submit and it will post it as a new tweet.
Your tweet will also appear at another profile http://twitter.com/twittergram.
If you get this tweet update on your phone, you would have to click on the link and have to stream the audio file from the web…what I’d like to see is a kind of MMS update so you don’t need the mobile web to listen to the file.

Twittergram also has mobile phone posting…call a number and then it will record your voice (basically voicemail).

The Twittergram Twitter profile has enclosures, making it a micropodcast feed, to do this for your own account, you could register your Twitter feed at Feedburner and enable the podcast feature (giving it enclosures)]

A while back I posted on the various ways a blogger and visitors can communicate and interact…I thought I’d use some of these tools and enable more ways for a visitor to contact me over just the usual email.

Email - Contactify widget

IM - GTalk button (the regular button didn’t link correctly for me, and what about a status indicator…that’s better, still not working, maybe I have to wait till my new contact has accepted my invitation)

Chat box - Plugoo (visitors can use the chat box, and I chat back using IM, and what about a status indicator)

SMS - jaxtr (visitors send me an SMS)

Voicemail - jaxtr (fill in your number so Jaxtr can call you in order to give you a number to call me, see more)

Call - jaxtr (fill in your number so Jaxtr can call you in order to give you a number to call me, see more…currently I have it on default voicemail, unless I approve that caller)

NOTE: Since Jaxter is live in over 40 countries, it will only cost visitors a local call…I think…they also mention that your carrier may charge you to receive SMS.
If you are registered and both use Jaxtr, then it’s free, I think…for live calls you get 40 free credits a month (if you invite friends to join you get 20 credits per invite)

Jaxtr is not just for bloggers, it’s a service where you can call your contacts for free, unlike MobaTalk or Evoca, your visitors can’t record a message from their browser, and have them there for others to see, same goes with Texterize SMS.

No RSS podcast feed for your account, probably a good thing since this is a more private communication.

I nearly forgot to mention that you can record a greeting, called a VoiceBlast.

All I have missing is live talk (as I don’t use the talk feature of GTalk or Skype), but the YackPack Walkie Talkie widget looks awesome, and the caller doesn’t need to download anything, just click and call.

Anyway for similar services to Jaxtr, check out my post.

Here is my contact page.

[35/05/07: TechCrunch have an informative post on Jaxtr]

Now with the Read/Write Web in full effect there are many ways to anchor, bookmark, comment, note, mark-up, review, annotate, clip, and share webpages.

NOTE: This post is attempting to focus on annotating and leaving notes on webpages, for the many web note services check out, Fifty Ways to Take Notes by Solution Watch.
But since web note service that have a sticky feel are so cute like webnote, Jotcloud and the peculiarly named Firedoodle, I have included many, especially the productive stikkit…and let’s not forget to mention fancy sidebar wiki notes.

And I’ve purposely left out memediggers (digg), social bookmarks (del.icio.us) and recommendations (StumbleUpon)…hmmm what about ShadoWeb.

Let’s start off with Silkscreen which does many things
- record your browser with playback
- share your browse history
- screenshare
- annotate and markup webpages

Web Sticky notes

SharedCopy (review)
- mark-up a webpage and invite others to see via your unique URL or simply make your URL public

MyStickies
- added feature of seeing all your notes on one page and organise your notes by tag

Protonotes (review)
- added feature of a review/modify collaborative process

Posticky (Review)
- like others you can add sticky notes to webpages and share them, and you can also have a sticky startpage with access via mobile, email and reminders.

Stikkit (review)
- unlike the others this isn’t for leaving notes on webpages, it’s more on collaboration and productivity, like: send a stikkit meeting invite and use it for documented notes afterwards

StickyTag (review)

blogEverywhere
- blog about a webpage on the actual page, and read what others have also posted, and leave comments…even cc: the post to your regular blog

Fleck (review)
- leave sticky notes on webpages, you and others can action these notes like: email this, blog this, save this…you can also put a footer button on your blog posts, so people can annotate your post, a bit like the ReviewBasic button

JumpKnowledge
- annotate a webpage and like Fleck add a footer button and like blogEverywhere cc: the post to your regular blog
- the buttons are…annotate and; email, blog, save, and print

For similar stuff see linebuzz and webride, Zpeech and Grouptivity Discuss.

ShiftSpace (review)
- annotate the web

[ADDED 20/11/07: Jjot]

[ADDED 12/07/08: Awesome Highlighter]

[ADDED 16/10/08: Annotate]

[ADDED 16/10/08: Edit Current Website]

[ADDED 21/12/08: Sticky Screen]

Social Network Sticky notes

Study Stickies

Stickis (review)
- tag your stickis
- have your own blog like stickis stream,
- others can reply to stickis (sticky conversations)
- when you visit a webpage you can see summaries of stickies from your network via a tray (reminds of of BlogRovr, as any page you visit, you will get blog posts from your subscriptions that have reviewed that page..actually they are from the same family)
- also has a feature where you can subscribe to blogs, maybe this feature is like the BlogRovr service.

Socialight
- social network blogging, where your posts are sticky notes attached to a location

Desktop Sticky notes

memento

Stickies

3M Post-It Notes (review)
- the original

SnagIt Notes (review)
- sticky notes for screenshots

Stickit

QuickNotes Plus
- send sticky notes to your friends desktop, similar to IM

RSS feeds and alerts via a desktop sticky, see mentations, and particls.

[ADDED 21/12/08: Vista and Scratch Pad]

Chat

Chatsum - chat with others on the same page like Others Online, Weblin, itzle, gabbly, dai.sy, zpeech and yakalike, but you can also leave notes.

Also check out collaborative browsing with me.dium.

What about sharing your web browsing with Clutzr, slifeshare, and attenTV.

Web Clips

Notefish (review)
- share

Google Notebook
- share and collaborate

i-Lighter

Wizlite
- highlight, share and collaborate

footnote
- share and collaborate

Net Snippets

Social Network Web Clips

Clipmarks
- social network

Web-Chops (review)
- social network

diigo (review)
- social network

Trailfire (review)
- annotate and share not only web pages, but web trails…now has groups trails, communal trails

Document Review

- see here (includes wikis)

Desktop widgets, Startpages, Webtops

- I can imagine lots of stickies and notes, if you know of some leave a comment…we may also include collaborative do-it all pages like zude and z-cubes (a page whore)

Link to a spot

purpleslurple (review)
- create a unique URL for a particular spot on a webpage

citebite
- added feature of highlighting the text

What about generating a hyperlink list by scrapping all the links on a page and listing it as a bibliography with inline numbers denoting which part of text the link in the bibliography refers to…also see here and here.

Not sure what Relates2 is about…also check out DrawHere.

Hmm, web annotation is totally old school.

[ADDED 3/07/07: Taskee - visitors can leave comments on a blog, refering to the URL they are commenting on]