Friday, June 23, 2006

Sticky notes and moustaches

Over on JFKBits, Joel posted some ideas about Annotating web pages using a sticky notes model.

He created a very simple demo. I played with it and took a screenshot. It's quite possibly a shining example of the sort of juvenile behavior this sort of technology is *not* to be used for.

So this leads naturally (in my mind) to the idea of annotating web pages with virtual moustaches and glasses. The idea of virtual graffiti is very appealing as it satisfies two conflicting requirements:

  1. The primal urge to change the world in silly ways.
  2. The changes are not permanent (Note that I don't even like to make serious notes in my own books)

(In the comments of his post, Joel pointed a site with a similar idea www.mystickies.com. I didn't create an account and try it, mostly in an attempt to squelch the impulse to find a flat panel monitor ad and put virtual stickies all over the virtual bezel.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is why I love the internet.

Soon you'll be able to share your virtual annotations with anyone you'd like.

-DC