Layers: Web Annotation done right
Written on 4th January 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Layers.com is a soon to launch Web Annotation service.
Another one?
Yes, another one.
There have been countless efforts to create a usable Web Annotation service. Diigo is one, Fleck is one (our own version) and there was the once popular Third Voice. Nobody seems to have found the right combination of scalability, user interface, compatibility and viral growth that you need to turn such a service into a widely used successful service.
Now there is Layers.com. From their website:
“Imagine if you could pull a transparent layer over any webpage and then you could create upon it. You could annotate, draw graffiti, embed video, photos or do whatever you want. Then, by providing a link, others could see your layer (with the original content beneath it) and you could see layers created by other people. You could follow your friends and see all the layers they create. You could go to any webpage and see any of the layers that have been created over that site.”
They are still in closed beta but the preview video looks amazingly cool and looks like exactly the service you would want to use. Check it out and sign up at Layers.com with invitation code “create1108” for an account.
layers.com from Layers on Vimeo.
Thanks for the tip Nalden!
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http://Layers.com seems to do what http://Fleck.com couldn’t: http://tinyurl.com/9yc28g
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RT @boris: http://Layers.com seems to do what http://Fleck.com couldn’t: http://tinyurl.com/9yc28g
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RT @boris: http://Layers.com seems to do what http://Fleck.com couldn’t: http://tinyurl.com/9yc28g
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Layers.com gewoonweg coool http://tinyurl.com/9yc28g
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Layers: Web Annotation done right [TheNextWeb.com - Jan 04, 2009] http://tinyurl.com/9yc28g
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[...] Layers: Web Annotation done right [TheNextWeb.com - Jan 04, 2009] – Imagine if you could pull a transparent layer over any webpage and then you could create upon it. You could annotate, draw graffiti, embed video, photos or do whatever you want. Then, by providing a link, others could see your layer (with the original content beneath it) and you could see layers created by other people. You could follow your friends and see all the layers they create. You could go to any webpage and see any of the layers that have been created over that site. [...]