I've used various bookmarking / annotation services for the past 7-8 years, some as bookmarklets, others as extensions. None of them ever evolved into a great community.<p>What's different about this one ? It looks like an MVP but without a mention of how it stands out.<p>Here are a few from the endless list ...<p><a href="https://www.diigo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.diigo.com/</a><p><a href="https://hypothes.is/" rel="nofollow">https://hypothes.is/</a><p><a href="http://annotateit.org/" rel="nofollow">http://annotateit.org/</a><p><a href="https://annotary.com/" rel="nofollow">https://annotary.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.scrible.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scrible.com/</a><p><a href="http://genius.com/web-annotator" rel="nofollow">http://genius.com/web-annotator</a>
There's some prior work in this area: <a href="https://hypothes.is/" rel="nofollow">https://hypothes.is/</a><p>Very functional, but I stick to private annotations and haven't noticed very many by others. They're also entirely open-source and there are components isolated for those who want to embed a custom instance in their website.
The irony of needing a Facebook account to use a web annotation service... It needs some other way to sign in/up.<p>I recently started using Pinboard after hearing the praise for its no-nonsense simplicity and impressive functionality. Couldn't be happier. Sure it's a paid service, but it just does what it does without trying to be too cool for school: pinboard.in/tour/
This looks amazing (concept, not UI/site which I could not test due to signup requirements) - I had this idea for years but, of course, never got around to implement this. Now give me this as a self-hosted solution that is not phoning home and I could see many organizations using it.