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Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 19, 2011 at 05:43 PM
It’s a bit difficult to define what these actually are: online notepads, micro-blogging platforms, wikis?
http://jottit.com/
http://pen.io/
http://wrttn.me/
This article describes how they’re used as note-taking services on the Kindle:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/02/18/three-online-notepads-that-work-with-the-kindle/
But I suppose they could have all kinds of other uses.
Posted by Ken
Feb 22, 2011 at 03:31 AM
I, too, found them difficult to understand as I looked at their web sites. I am sure there must be some use for these programs, but they kind of remind me of solutions in search of problems. But, speaking of note-taking applications, I noticed that Diigo now has a Chrome extension. I am not sure if it also keeps a copy of your data locally, but if you are interested, here are two links to more information: http://blog.diigo.com/2011/01/29/diigo-chrome-app-quick-note-the-quickest-way-to-take-notes-in-google-chrome/ and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpmllgcfadlkankhok# .
—Ken
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 22, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Thanks Ken, vaguely reminds me of Google Notebook. It’s interesting that while the big boys like Google and Yahoo! abandoned their bookmarking and note-taking services, others like Diigo still find this market worthwhile.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 6, 2011 at 06:07 PM
> I am sure there must be some use for these programs,
> but they kind of remind me of solutions in search of problems.
I think there’s a lot of experimentation going on with such webware at the moment, with modern development tools making it easy for many people to craft their idea into an online application, before they even need to question the necessity of such an undertaking. The main questions for me are:
- Which ones offer a novel and useful approach
- Which ones will be around in a couple of years from now
- Which ones can easily be combined with other tools, including desktop, increasing the flexibility but also the ‘preservability’ of the information we put in them (via data redundancy)
I am willing to skip the novelty and usefulness in favour of the other two issues, having the experience of losing material I had collected online when Twine was simply pulled down by its new owners.
I see both of these issues being answered by an interconnectivity and partnership strategy. For example, Google Apps and Evernote represent two platforms that are likely to continue being around, so exchanging data with them can provide some insurance to users.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 7, 2011 at 05:28 PM
Alexander, Twine is missed. Nova Spivak caved in when he sold Twine to Evri - the idea was that Evri would use Twine technology to make something new and better. I have yet to see it. Evri is so far from being Twine it is not even worth discussing!
My hope was Evri might be convinced to relaunch Twine, but now it seems that’s not going to happen.
I enjoyed Twine. A friend of mine whom I got turned on to Twine became one of its power users, creating great twines on everything from poetry to meditation to the “urban hermit.” It was distressing for her to be sold down the river, especially after Spivak had made a point of using such community-based language and approaches. It turned out he felt little accountability to the people who made Twine the success it was, the user community he did so much to attract and to encourage.
I have yet to see anything similar to Twine.
In terms of semantic search engines, two of the best I have seen are hakia.com and Kengine.
Daly
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>I am willing to skip the novelty and
>usefulness in favour of the other two issues, having the experience of losing
>material I had collected online when Twine was simply pulled down by its new
>owners.