Hypothes.is Historical Survey of Annotation Efforts
Published by deputat on September 21st, 2013
Hypothes.is Historical Survey of Annotation Efforts
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| Name | Status | URL | Founding Date | Ending date | Comment | Founders | Company | Outcome | ||||
| NCSA Mosaic | NEVER IMPLEMENTED | ncsa.uiuc.edu | 1993 | ? | Just found out the mosaic browser had annotation built in originally! | Marc Andreessen | NCSA / UIUC | Shut it down before deployed, didn't want to deploy and operate the required internet-scale servers. | ||||
| Insight | LIMITED USE | http://www.lunaimaging.com/index.html | 1995 | digital image collection | David Rumsey | Luna Imaging | ||||||
| iMarkup | DISCONTINUED | http://www.bplogix.com/support/imarkup-client.aspx | 1998 | stand-alone desktop application, database server | BP Logix, Inc. | discontinued | ||||||
| ThirdVoice | DEFUNCT | 1999 | 2001 | sticky notes browswer plug-in | Eng-Sion Tan | discontinued--not enough ad revenue | ||||||
| uTOK | DEFUNCT | http://web.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html | 1999 | 2001 | MIT project | Orit Zuckerman | Acquired for $150M in 2000, shut down | |||||
| Critlink | DEFUNCT | http://zesty.ca/crit/ | 2000 | Public Web Annotations | Ka-Ping Yee | |||||||
| The Annotea | DEFUNCT | http://annotea.org/ | 2001 | annotation project to enhance W3C collaborative environment | W3C | |||||||
| A.nnotate | LIMITED USE | http://a.nnotate.com/ | 2005 | Multi-format support, connect to Moodle/VLE's, comprehensive document storage and management, enterprise & extensive API | Robert Cannon, Fred Howell | Textensor | ||||||
| NewsTrust | DEFUNCT | http://newstrust.net/ | 2005 | journalism annotator--tools to rate stories accuracy, fairness, sourcing, context | Fabrice Florin | NewsTrust | ||||||
| HP Trailblazer | DEFUNCT | http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-175/19_croke_jack_final.pdf | 2005 | working paper | Pat Croke, Ann Johnston, Kim Tighe | HP | ||||||
| Diigo | WIDE USAGE | www.diigo.com/ | 2006 | Top ten research tools by CNET acquired Furl and Looksmart | undisclosed | Diigo | ||||||
| Stickis | DEFUNCT | http://www.stickis.com/ | 2006 | social bookmarking, annotation, social networking | Jean Sini and Marc A. Meyer | Activeweave, Inc. | reboot as BlogRovr and sold to BuzzLogic. | |||||
| Fleck | DEFUNCT | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fleck-save-the-best-of-the-web/ | 2006 | 2008 | save bookmarks and stickies on top | Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive | ||||||
| ShiftSpace | LIVING DEAD | http://sharedcopy.com/ | 2006 | 2011 | Last software update 2009 | Dan Phiffer | ||||||
| My WOT | LIMITED USE | http://www.mywot.com/ | 2006 | website reputation tool | Sami Tolvanen and Timo Ala-Kleemola | WOT Services, Ltd | ||||||
| FinalsClub | LIMITED USE | http://finalsclub.org/ | 2007 | non-profit, open access to academic course material annotations of elite universities | Andrew Magliozzi | |||||||
| SharedCopy | DEFUNCT | http://www.shiftspace.org/ | 2007 | blog tools, comment on attachments | Chew Choon Keat | |||||||
| Awesome Highlighter | DEFUNCT | http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/ | 2008 | no browser extension | three guys from Florida. | |||||||
| Reframe It | DEFUNCT | http://reframeit.com/ | 2008 | deliberative polling, community annotation engagement | Bob Fishkin | |||||||
| Mendeley | WIDE USAGE | http://www.mendeley.com/ | 2008 | comprehensive research management, document storage | Victor Henning | |||||||
| Spinspotter | DEFUNCT | http://spinspotter.com/ | 2008 | 2009 | "Seven Deadly Spins" annotation tool | Todd Herman | Spin Spotter Inc. | |||||
| DocumentCloud | WIDE USAGE | http://www.documentcloud.org/ | 2009 | Catalogues primary source documents for journalists, researchers and activists | Eric Umansky and Scott Klein | IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors) | ||||||
| Marginize | STRUGGLING | http://www.marginize.com/ | 2009 | makes use of twitter content about given page | Ziad Sultan | Marginize | ||||||
| SideWiki | DEFUNCT | http://www.google.com/sidewiki/ | 2009 | scrapped | ||||||||
| Goozy | LIMITED USE | http://goozy.com/ | 2009 | ICQ-like chat for websites | Eran Kariti | Hypermix | ||||||
| Kutano | DEFUNCT | http://www.kutano.com/ | 2009 | 2010 | Assaf Koren | |||||||
| Markup.io | LIMITED USE | http://markup.io/ | 2009 | drawing tools for annotations | Josiah Roe | Medium | ||||||
| NewsCube | NEVER IMPLEMENTED | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518772 | 2009 | article | Souneil Park et al | |||||||
| LEMO | RELEASED | http://www.slideshare.net/bhaslhofer/the-lemo-annotation-framework | 2009 | support embedded content items | Bernard Haslhofer | SlideShare | ||||||
| Annozilla | RELEASED | http://annozilla.mozdev.org/ | 2009 | annotea on Mozilla | mozdev.org | |||||||
| RapGenius | WIDE USAGE | http://rapgenius.com | 2009 | Annotate rap lyrics! | Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory | Rap Genius | 10M monthly hits as of 10/2012. Just got $15M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz! | |||||
| Shareflow | LIMITED USE | http://zenbe.com/ | 2009 | Real-time group collaboration on workflow items, email, messaging, document sharing | Alan Chung | Zenbe Inc | ||||||
| AnnotateIt | LIMITED USE | http://annotateit.org/ | 2010 | annotator tool and browser extension | Rufus Pollock | Open Knowledge Foundation | ||||||
| Highlighter.com | RELEASED | http://highlighter.com | 2010 | cloud based storage, education tools | Mullineaux, Matt Blancarte and Nate Whitehill | Highlighter | ||||||
| WebKlipper | LIMITED USE | http://webklipper.com/webklipper | 2010 | document storage/managementinteractive link sharing | Avlesh Singh | Webklipper Technologies | ||||||
| HowTru | DEFUNCT | http://howtru.com/ | 2010 | content veracity model | Tom Bedolla | Voracious Entropy | ||||||
| JournalTalk | LIMITED USE | http://journaltalk.net | 2010 | Academic journal focus | George Mason | |||||||
| CritiqueIt | LIMITED USE | https://edu.critiqueit.com/ | 2010 | secure storage, (corporate) document collaboration, and group annotation | Alexandra Fleur, Ashley Bradford | Critiqueit Inc. | ||||||
| Crocodoc | LIMITED USE | http://crocodoc.com/ | 2010 | collaborative review of word, powerpoint, pdf docs | Ryan Damico | |||||||
| Substance.io | LIMITED USE | http://substance.io/ | 2011 | publishing and authoring engine for writers, journalists, scientists | Michael Aufreiter | |||||||
| BounceApp | LIMITED USE | bounceapp.com | 2011 | site screengrab annotation, shareable with Notableapp | Bryan Zmijewski | Zurb | ||||||
| NotableApp | RELEASED | noteableapp.com | 2011 | collaborative sets/workspaces | Bryan Zmijewski | Zurb | ||||||
| Converati | LIVING DEAD | http://converati.com/ | 2011 | social bookmarking/annotating | Seth Samuels | |||||||
| Findings | RELEASED | http://findings.com/ | 2011 | enabled excerpting from Amazon kindle, social clipping stream | John Borthwick | betaworks | ||||||
| iCorrect | LIMITED USE | https://www.icorrect.com/ | 2011 | celebs pay $1000 to correct rumors | David Tang | |||||||
| dbunkr | ANNOUNCED | http://dbunkr.com | 2011 | "deeper than fact-checking" | undisclosed | dBunkr | ||||||
| Digress.it | LIMITED USE | http://digress.it/ | 2011 | Wordpress Annotation plugin | Eddie Tejada | |||||||
| CliqueMe | DEFUNCT | http://cliqueme.proboards.com/index.cgi | scrapped | |||||||||
| DisputeFinder | DEFUNCT | http://confront.intel-research.net/Dispute_Finder.html#Usage_Scenarios | intellabs | Rob Ennals | project ended | |||||||
| Orseis | ALPHA | http://en.doc.fidesfit.org/wiki/Main_Page | Web of Trust framework | Fidesfit | ||||||||
| Filesquare | BETA | http://filesq.com | annotation for design work | |||||||||
| Goodreader | WIDE USAGE | http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html | big file support, drop box enabled, text search, annotation tools | Apple | ||||||||
| Dotspots | ||||||||||||
| Yousticker | ||||||||||||
| Citability | LIVING DEAD | http://citability.org | Annotation of government documents | |||||||||
| Annotary | LIMITED USE | https://annotary.com | 2012 | General personal annotation tool and highlighter | ||||||||
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