Real-time Webpage Highlighting.
Filed under: bookmarks, commenting, messaging
Most mornings, I get up and go through my routine, which usually ends with me drinking Mountain Dew, and sitting down at the dining-room table. Substituting the normal coffee intake and newspaper reading, I opt for soda and news via the web. My generation is the one that wants and usually gets everything that they want instantly. That being said, usually after about a half-hour of reading various CNN, Routers, Lifehacker and Wired posts, I begin to get a positively torrential amount of mail in my inbox with people cyber-shouting at me: “Quit sending me the same link over and over again! You sent it eleventy-seven times already!” To which I usually reply with: “But did you read the different comments I left for you?” *puppy dog eyes* Call it the caffeinated rush, but I have a lot to say, and to make matters worse, I expect comments back.
…Well, scratch that. That was before I started using SupraSphere. I’ve told you about spheres, terse messaging, and the supra search features. With the terse/bookmarking feature I alluded to, you can visit sites just like any other browser (tabbed no less) or insert bookmarks in terse messages an d in your different spheres. When you bookmark in a shared sphere, things get very cool very fast: everyone can comment on the bookmark.
One cool thing is that you are able to tell when someone reads the message. Their name off on the left hand “people” bar will go from blue to green. That way you won’t have to beg them to read it. ;) Of course you could prod them with a terse message to the bookmark, but once their name goes green you’ll know that they are reading it. You can simply reply to a bookmark via the terse messaging system, although there is another really cool feature to utilize.
What if there is a specific thing on the website that you want someone to see? In shared spheres, there is this big space where most of the time it shows terse messages in-line. However, when you click on a bookmark, a preview will show up in that large space.* At this point, you can still reply in terse, but the feature here is that while looking at that page, you can highlight just about anything and contextually select text to comment on. Simply highlight, right-click, and comment on the content you want them to read. A window pops up, allowing you do do that. If someone comments back, you can read their comment and reply to it. Contextual commenting really makes for some interesting conversation!
In SS, this comment feature is not just limited to bookmarks; email and messages can be commented on too! This along with the many other features of SS make it a truly innovative environment to work in!
*double-clicking on a bookmark will open it up in a new tab.
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Andria LeBaron
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