MyStickies, Sticky Notes for the Web

#2 of 7 marked pages on the trail Ways to make learning trails on the web by sleslie
sleslie's comments
So in the context of informal education, or education with pre-defined cohorts, open annotation tools like these ones make some sense (though potentially the amount of cruft you'd end up seeing could make them unusable, as is the potential for 'annotation spam' ick) but it would be interesting to see annotation tools like this integrate with people's instant messaging buddy lists so that you could leave messages attached to web pages that could then be filtered by whether you were on somebody's buddy list.
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I agree it could potentially be informal learning chaos...in which case you would need tag clouds or something to 'sift' through meaningful annotations, but as with things like Yahoo Answers - there is tons of stuff on there I don't like or will never need to look at, but I can get answers to the questions I ask..so I don't mind the chaos providing I can get to what I need or find a meaningful way of getting through it
Posted at 00:23 on 2007-07-11 by racingshoes