Web Annotation: A Short Dive

When does web annotation finally go mainstream? Edit 08/20: Unlikely

July 19, 2019 · Last edited August 1, 2020 · 5 min read · Send your thoughts via twitter or mail. Last winter, I got fed up with how I do Internet, so I prototyped a browser extension that lets you create and view annotations within your social circle on any website. After sharing the alpha version with a friend, he mentioned Hypothesis – a team that has been working on the same problem for years and already made strong headway towards open source web annotation. At first I was frustrated. I spent many days with the torture of modern web development1, when many of the problems were already…

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