Hypothes.is Historical Survey of Annotation Efforts

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	editor	Status	URL	Founding Date	Ending date	Comment	Founders	Company	Outcome

2	NCSA Mosaic	BRIEFLY IMPLEMENTED	ncsa.uiuc.edu	1993	1993	Just found out the mosaic browser had annotation built in originally!	Marc Andreessen	NCSA / UIUC	Shut it down before deployed, didn't want to deploy and operate the required internet-scale servers.
3	Insight	LIMITED USE	http://www.lunaimaging.com/index.html	1995		digital image collection	David Rumsey	Luna Imaging
4	Panorama	LIMITED USE	http://xml.coverpages.org/panofeat.html	1995		SGML browser plugin for NCSA Mosaic		SoftQuad
5	iMarkup	DISCONTINUED	http://www.bplogix.com/support/imarkup-client.aspx	1998		stand-alone desktop application, database server		BP Logix, Inc.	discontinued
6	ThirdVoice	DEFUNCT		1999	2001	sticky notes browswer plug-in	Eng-Sion Tan		discontinued--not enough ad revenue. threatened with lawsuit by sites that considered it grafitti
7	uTOK	DEFUNCT	http://web.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html	1999	2001	MIT project	Orit Zuckerman		Acquired for $150M in 2000, shut down
8	Critlink	DEFUNCT	http://zesty.ca/crit/	2000		Public Web Annotations	Ka-Ping Yee
9	The Annotea	DEFUNCT	http://annotea.org/	2001		annotation project to enhance W3C collaborative environment		W3C
10	NewsTrust	DEFUNCT	http://newstrust.net/	2005		journalism annotator--tools to rate stories accuracy, fairness, sourcing, context	Fabrice Florin	NewsTrust
11	HP Trailblazer	DEFUNCT	http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-175/19_croke_jack_final.pdf	2005		working paper	Pat Croke, Ann Johnston, Kim Tighe	HP
12	A.nnotate	LIMITED USE	http://a.nnotate.com/	2005		Multi-format support, connect to Moodle/VLE's, comprehensive document storage and management, enterprise & extensive API	Robert Cannon, Fred Howell	Textensor
13	Stickis	DEFUNCT	http://www.stickis.com/	2006		social bookmarking, annotation, social networking	Jean Sini and Marc A. Meyer	Activeweave, Inc.	reboot as BlogRovr and sold to BuzzLogic.
14	Fleck	DEFUNCT	https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fleck-save-the-best-of-the-web/	2006	2008	save bookmarks and stickies on top	Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive
15	My WOT	LIMITED USE	http://www.mywot.com/	2006		website reputation tool	Sami Tolvanen and Timo Ala-Kleemola	WOT Services, Ltd
16	ShiftSpace	LIVING DEAD	http://sharedcopy.com/	2006	2011	Last software update 2009	Dan Phiffer
17	Diigo	WIDE USAGE	www.diigo.com/	2006		Top ten research tools by CNET acquired Furl and Looksmart	undisclosed	Diigo
18	SharedCopy	DEFUNCT	http://www.shiftspace.org/	2007		blog tools, comment on attachments	Chew Choon Keat
19	Dotspots	DEFUNCT		2007	2012	Annotating news with "dots" (distributed objects of thought), crowdsourcing multiple perspectives; “spot the truth, connect the dots!”	Farhad Mohit (Founder and CEO), Matt Mastracci (CTO), Naval Ravikant (Advisor)
20	FinalsClub	LIMITED USE	http://finalsclub.org/	2007		non-profit, open access to academic course material annotations of elite universities	Andrew Magliozzi
21	Awesome Highlighter	DEFUNCT	http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/	2008		no browser extension	three guys from Florida.
22	Reframe It	DEFUNCT	http://reframeit.com/	2008		deliberative polling, community annotation engagement	Bob Fishkin
23	Spinspotter	DEFUNCT	http://spinspotter.com/	2008	2009	"Seven Deadly Spins" annotation tool	Todd Herman	Spin Spotter Inc.
24	Mendeley	WIDE USAGE	http://www.mendeley.com/	2008		comprehensive research management, document storage	Victor Henning
25	SideWiki	DEFUNCT	http://www.google.com/sidewiki/	2009				google	scrapped
26	Kutano	DEFUNCT	http://www.kutano.com/	2009	2010		Assaf Koren
27	Goozy	LIMITED USE	http://goozy.com/	2009		ICQ-like chat for websites	Eran Kariti	Hypermix
28	Markup.io	LIMITED USE	http://markup.io/	2009		drawing tools for annotations	Josiah Roe	Medium	Discontinued as of August 13th, 2014.
29	Shareflow	LIMITED USE	http://zenbe.com/	2009		Real-time group collaboration on workflow items, email, messaging, document sharing	Alan Chung	Zenbe Inc
30	Yousticker / Stickr	LIVING DEAD	http://yousticker.com/ http://stickr.com/	2009		Sticky notes	Evgeny Palchevsky		neglected
31	NewsCube	NEVER IMPLEMENTED	http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518772	2009		article	Souneil Park et al
32	LEMO	RELEASED	http://www.slideshare.net/bhaslhofer/the-lemo-annotation-framework	2009		support embedded content items	Bernard Haslhofer	SlideShare
33	Annozilla	RELEASED	http://annozilla.mozdev.org/	2009		annotea on Mozilla		mozdev.org
34	NB	RELEASED	http://nb.mit.edu/about/	2009		nb is an annotation taking tool developed by the Haystack Group at CSAIL.
35	Marginize	STRUGGLING	http://www.marginize.com/	2009		makes use of twitter content about given page	Ziad Sultan	Marginize
36	DocumentCloud	WIDE USAGE	http://www.documentcloud.org/	2009		Catalogues primary source documents for journalists, researchers and activists	Eric Umansky and Scott Klein	IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors)
37	RapGenius	WIDE USAGE	http://rapgenius.com	2009		Annotate rap lyrics!	Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory	Rap Genius	10M monthly hits as of 10/2012. Just got $15M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz!
38	HowTru	DEFUNCT	http://howtru.com/	2010		content veracity model	Tom Bedolla	Voracious Entropy
39	AnnotateIt	LIMITED USE	http://annotateit.org/	2010		annotator tool and browser extension	Rufus Pollock	Open Knowledge Foundation
40	WebKlipper	LIMITED USE	http://webklipper.com/webklipper	2010		document storage/managementinteractive link sharing	Avlesh Singh	Webklipper Technologies
41	JournalTalk	LIMITED USE	http://journaltalk.net	2010		Academic journal focus	George Mason
42	CritiqueIt	LIMITED USE	https://edu.critiqueit.com/	2010		secure storage, (corporate) document collaboration, and group annotation	Alexandra Fleur, Ashley Bradford	Critiqueit Inc.
43	Crocodoc	LIMITED USE	http://crocodoc.com/	2010		collaborative review of word, powerpoint, pdf docs	Ryan Damico		Now part of Box https://www.box.com/notes.
44	Highlighter.com	RELEASED	http://highlighter.com	2010		cloud based storage, education tools	Mullineaux, Matt Blancarte and Nate Whitehill	Highlighter	now part of PanOpen? https://panopen.panopen.com
45	Alipi - Renarration Web	ALPHA	http://alipi.janastu.org	2011		Web content accessibilty project for diversity in literacy needs	Dinesh, ...	Janastu and Servlots	Re architected and deployed using SWeeT Web now.
46	dbunkr	ANNOUNCED	http://dbunkr.com	2011		"deeper than fact-checking"	undisclosed	dBunkr
47	Substance.io	LIMITED USE	http://substance.io/	2011		publishing and authoring engine for writers, journalists, scientists	Michael Aufreiter
48	BounceApp	LIMITED USE	bounceapp.com	2011		site screengrab annotation, shareable with Notableapp	Bryan Zmijewski	Zurb	Related to Notable.
49	iCorrect	LIMITED USE	https://www.icorrect.com/	2011		celebs pay $1000 to correct rumors	David Tang
50	Digress.it	LIMITED USE	http://digress.it/	2011		Wordpress Annotation plugin	Eddie Tejada
51	Converati	LIVING DEAD	http://converati.com/	2011		social bookmarking/annotating	Seth Samuels
52	NotableApp	RELEASED	noteableapp.com	2011		collaborative sets/workspaces	Bryan Zmijewski	Zurb
53	Findings	RELEASED	http://findings.com/	2011		enabled excerpting from Amazon kindle, social clipping stream	John Borthwick	betaworks	Now leads to Instapaper https://www.instapaper.com
54	Hypothes.is	RELEASED	http://hypothes.is	2011		General purpose web annotation application	Dan Whaley	Hypothes.is	In progress
55	LiquidText	ALPHA	http://liquidtext.net/	2012		GUI document viewer and annotation tool, can link different passages together, tablet or touch table	Craig Tashman	LiquidText, inc.
56	SweeT Web	ALPHA	http://wiki.janastu.org/Sweet_Web	2012		Used to implement ReNarration Web, ReStory, anthill.janastu.org and other projects	Dinesh, ..	Janastu and Servelots	In progress
57	Annotary	LIMITED USE	https://annotary.com	2012		General personal annotation tool and highlighter
58	Lacuna Stories	RELEASED	http://www.lacunastories.com/about/	2013		Lacuna is an open-source, online learning tool designed to create new possibilities for reading and learning collaboratively.	Brian Johnsrud, Michael Widner	Standord: Poetic Media Lab
59	Annopad	ALPHA	http://www.annopad.com/	2014		Simple page-level comments as an extension	Michael Santibanes	Annopad
60	Livefyre Sidenotes	RELEASED	http://web.livefyre.com/apps/sidenotes/	2014 (?)				Livefyre	Acquired by Adobe
61	Orseis	ALPHA	http://en.doc.fidesfit.org/wiki/Main_Page			Web of Trust framework		Fidesfit
62	Filesquare	BETA	http://filesq.com			annotation for design work
63	CliqueMe	DEFUNCT	http://cliqueme.proboards.com/index.cgi						scrapped
64	DisputeFinder	DEFUNCT	http://confront.intel-research.net/Dispute_Finder.html#Usage_Scenarios			intellabs	Rob Ennals		project ended
65	Citability	LIVING DEAD	http://citability.org			Annotation of government documents
66	Pundit	RELEASED	http://thepund.it/			Research / Semantic Web focused annotation system.		Net7
67	Annotum	RELEASED	http://annotum.org/			" A scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress"			Final release 22 Nov 2016.
68	Goodreader	WIDE USAGE	http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html			big file support, drop box enabled, text search, annotation tools		Apple
69	Notable PDF	WIDE USAGE	https://www.kamihq.com
70	Annote.in
71	Ouija.io		http://ouija.io/demo
72	Poetica		http://poetica.com/
73	Amaya	BETA
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