Web Annotations Rule!

Written June 15. 1999, at 03:00 GMT.

My friend Bjarni finally returned one of my many You've-got-to-look-at-this e-mails. The link he sent me was a real gem.

CritSuite (Crit.org) is a virtual annotator much similar to the Third Voice Plugin for MSIE4+ that came to public notice a few days ago. Both are a kind of "magic eyeglass". When you look at web-pages through/with them you see what other users of the magic eyeglass have thought out-loud and scribbled between the lines. Then you can add your own thoughts or arguments. It's a kind of a discussion forum in a bottle - just add Crit. :-)

The main strengths of CritSuite are that it is an extremely well designed proxy-based browser-indepentent open source research project. It is fast and quite user-friendly and allows for a great flexibility. It adheres to official web-standards and it even allows sharing of annotations between different Crit Servers.

At the CritSuite website there's a FAQ, and list of most recent comments. ...Just to get everyone started.

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