Saturday, November 11, 2006

Stickis - the social web annotator




Got an invite to test out Stickis - the social web annotator.

Stickis lets you add blog feeds, build a community based on your "notes" and read other's annotations.

What ?

  • You add/subscribe blog feed(s) + you can showcase your own blog/site
  • Add annotations/notes to whatever urls you like.
  • Let others "subscribe" to your annotations/network/site and build a big community of readers! Your annotations could be on any site/url.
  • In future, Stickis promises to restrict the notes subscription to whoever you wish to grant access to - Right now, whoever has subscribed to your network can read your notes.
  • You can also get alerts whenever someone posts a note

Why ?
  • As I understand it now, If you have a site, people get to read your site. You can read other's sites as well through the feeds.
  • You get to hear opinions through annotations which might provide interesting insights of what people actually reading and commenting on - this could be an equivalent to the comments that you see on various sites - but, your subscribers will get to read all your comments at one place.. Ah... digg + comments ?
Implementation
  • You can either add new notes through the website or through the extension that they provide only for Internet Explorer. That meant I had to reboot to Windows :(
  • However, they plan to add a Firefox extension soon.

Overall experience was completely different and it took sometime for me to understand what exactly I had to do :).

Update (Dec 4)

Jean
from Stickis has left a comment that they now have a Firefox extension. Will try it out! Thanks !

Try it out and see if you like it - for now, I am gonna skip this one - atleast I get a Firefox extension

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi there, thanks for the post. We've been busy with our launch in the past two weeks, but have just released the Firefox extension for Stickis, give it a spin!