Hightlight the Web
March 12th, 2008 | Published in Firefox, Twitter, Useful | 3 Comments
A service called Awesome Highlighter lets you markup web sites by highlighting text on the pages. You can choose from four different highlighter colors: yellow, blue, green, or red. The highlighted pages can then be saved to your account or shared with friends using a TinyURL-like shortened URL. You can use the service by going to the website or by using the Firefox extension. Pages can be sent to your Twitter account, too.
Although this may not be something that’s useful for everyone, I can see its benefit for team collaboration or even in an educational setting, where students share web notes with each other, or teachers share marked up pages with their class.
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March 12th, 2008 at 4:10 pm (#)
I tried this a couple times and it didn’t work for me — maybe because I’m using Safari? on a Mac?
March 12th, 2008 at 6:12 pm (#)
Maybe try firefox instead?
March 13th, 2008 at 1:19 pm (#)
My name is Luke and I’m one of the guys that created awesomehighlighter.
Thanks for the post and the feedback! Unfortunately, we’ve got some bugs with Safari, sorry about that, but we’re working on it so please don’t forget about us. If you have any other problems, questions, or suggestions you can email us or find me at twitter.com/lukebrdn. thanks again!