- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:43:10 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Michele Costantini <michele.costantini@ibn-italy.com>
- cc: "'www-annotation@w3.org'" <www-annotation@w3.org>, <gerald@w3.org>
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Michele Costantini wrote: Hi I can't answer all your questions about Annotea, but just wanted to note... > 4. when you think that the commercial browser adopt the standard and > add the annotation-features? ...that basic "3rd party annotation" facilities are already deployed in commercial browsers. Netscape launched their "What's Related" service (an early RDF application) a couple of years ago. It requests very simple annotations from their server; the annotation format basically just says "here are some pages that may be on a related topic". I believe they use the Alexa database (http://www.alexa.com/) and that Internet Explorer has a similar facility. Netscape have some pages up about their "What's Related" or "Smart Browsing" service, see: http://home.netscape.com/escapes/related/ http://home.netscape.com/escapes/smart_browsing/index.html http://home.netscape.com/escapes/related/faq.html The interesting thing with developments like Annotea is that by proposing a common cross-browser vocabulary to support annotation services, we see the prospect of a marketplace for third-party annotations. The Netscape page hints at this, showing someone looking at the Ford car site, and then navigating to 3rd-party reviews of a car, other places to buy that model etc. Dan
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