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Wasn’t there a startup that did this in the late 90’s?
by billsmithaustin 4y ago
Wasn’t there a startup that did this in the late 90’s?
- EvanAnderson 4y agoThird Voice[0] did shared annotation in ‘99. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice
- lawrencehook 4y agoSay Yes to WebStickies :P
- bjelkeman-again 4y agoThere have been a bunch of these companies. We started one company in 1999, which we eventually moved to San Francisco. We built sticky notes which were stored together with a cash copy of the website on our servers. So one could collaborate around the notes in a corporate environment. Funding dried up in the dotcom crash, so we went home again. (An interesting side note to that was that the CIA wanted our stuff to build something for the presidents office, but decided against it, probably for security reasons. At least I got a trip to Washington DC out of it and meeting CIA CTOs or equivalents. Interesting times.) Other companies built public note systems. I think I have seen another four or five since then that have tried to make a business around sticky notes in websites, but nothing seems to… stick (ahem). People seem to want to give internal feedback to the content team on PDFs or in emails. One of the original browsers, maybe Netscape, had comments on pages, but it got removed early on. Edit: added note about CIA.
- lawrencehook 4y agoThat's very cool.
- xattt 4y agoI thought this was Google’s initial goal.
- rzzzt 4y agoI remember something where you could doodle and comment on any website, but pages usually devolved into spam and drawings of... you can imagine.