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Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Dr. Thomas Ho — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:23:29 -0000

WebNotes Pro launched today and it's STILL a "far cry" from @Diigo BUT PDF annotation is nice

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

kitesurf — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:16:27 -0000

I am interested to have a go at it, is there anyone to invite? thanks in advance.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Brandon Hull — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:59:17 -0000

I got a beta invite, installed it, have been trying it out with no problems. And while Diigo is obviously more comprehensive, why is that automatically better for all purposes? What if I prefer Delicious for bookmarking...and Evernote for detailed note-taking?

What I prefer about WebNotes is that it's LESS overwhelming, in terms of features. I can highlight, I can add a sticky note, I can share. I can store things in separate folders.

I'm also not sure I want my entire online "system" wrapped up into one tool, I like tools that do a few things really well...with an interface that makes more sense to me.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

rob3r — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:31:29 -0000

Well rot, I had never come across a similar service myself. And I like it, and I use it. Sorry if I'm not negative about it, but I gave my honest opinion.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Alex — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:27:16 -0000

Jared and interested others,

We have now added Iron compatibility! If you'd like to use this browser, you can now use WebNotes as well!

Thanks everyone, and keep the feedback coming.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

rob3r — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:01:36 -0000

I did a pretty in depth review of WebNotes a while back and really liked it. You can see that here, http://www.budboytech.com/b...

I had never heard of Diigo, so I didn't review that service. But now that I've heard of it I think I have another blog post coming up : ).

If you can't get a hold of an invite to WebNotes, feel free to leave a comment on the above link and I'll make sure to send you one.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

connectionfailure — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:36:12 -0000

Invitation please!
Lets try this thing out.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Ryan Damico, CEO, WebNotes — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:22:50 -0000

We really appreciate Wade's comments on Mashable, Read Write Web, LouisGray.com, etc. At WebNotes, we have the utmost respect for Diigo and the social annotation tools they provide. They have a great product for consumers interested in social annotation and facilitate a wonderful intermediary service for those who wish to discuss articles and build communities around their annotations. We certainly wish them the best of luck as the endeavor to create greater value for their communities.

Before I begin my response to Wade's assertions, we should first realize that the annotation market is largely untapped. Web researchers make up far greater numbers than Diigo's 500k users, or the dwindling audiences of the other social annotation sites. A recent survey by Forbes and Gartner noted that over 60% of C-level executives got a majority of the information on which they base their decisions from the internet. Millions of researchers are currently surfing the web without a solution to fit their needs. Part of the problem is that they haven't yet found the right solution; the other part is that they haven't yet been educated about a better way to research. Here at WebNotes, we strongly believe that all annotation sites can greatly expand our respective market shares by increasing the education available to the public.

That said, we agree completely with Wade and believe that everyone should compare both Diigo and WebNotes. Use both and pick whichever one resonates with you. We are confident in our design choices and feel that there is most certainly value in simplicity, intuitive interfaces and ease of use. So how about it bloggers? Which do you prefer? Research analysts should do the same. Spread the word to your colleagues. Anyone who has ever needed to research online should view this as the perfect time to learn a better way to complete such a task.

Most of all, let us know what you like, what you need and what you hate. We are trying to make a product that is perfect for you and the louder you are, the better our products become.

Thanks for your help!
Ryan Damico

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Alex — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:20:02 -0000

Jared, thanks so much for your help in tracking down that bug! We are in the midst of fixing that now and it should be available a short timeframe.

For those of you that are interested, Jared is using a Chrome derivative called Iron. This browser wasn't being accounted for in our system and was returning a bizarre error message. For those of you using Iron, WebNotes won't work yet, but hopefully soon

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Jared — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:50:09 -0000

Wow, this app does not work at all!

Why dont these companies do more extensive testing before releasing a product?? They have the public do their work by testing it for them, and then giving them negative publicity when it doesnt work.

The saying 'there is no such thing as bad publicity' doesnt really apply to technology.

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Wade, CEO, Diigo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:50:58 -0000

I think it would be fair to say that Diigo is the most popular and mature web annotation tool on the market today. With over half a million registered users, It has been continuously refined over the past three years.

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So it would be helpful to compare any new entrant in the space to Diigo. If webnotes is aiming at serious web surfers, then I must say that side-by-side comparisons would show that Diigo is a much more powerful (and mature) tool. For example, Diigo provides rich tagging capability as well as folders for better information organization, and group annotation for better collaboration. Diigo automatically caches the page so it is always available to you. Diigo allows you to search the full-text of your collections, or just within your highlights. Diigo allows you to easily extract your research findings or publish them to blogs ......

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One could argue that webnotes' is simpler because of less features. Well, if you want real productivity, I should like to argue that it just falls far short of what Diigo enables. In addition, Diigo's rich functionality has been designed with painstaking care so that if you will be completely comfortable just using a subset of the features to begin with. For tools that are really simple, I would say delicious and google notebooks are hard to beat.

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Diigo team continues to dedicate itself to make Diigo the best tool for research productivity and knowledge sharing. (In the meantime, other web annotation tools such as fleck, i-lighter, jump knowledge, trailfire, etc have essentially stopped development or simply shut-down, to the best of my knowledge. )

Re: WebNotes: A Sticky Note Plug-In for Serious Surfers (Invites)

Wade, CEO, Diigo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:48:05 -0000