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A.nnotate Shares Documents for Peer Review
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 6:30 AM on May 23, 2008
Free markup sharing site A.nnotate offers a simple tool for letting co-workers or friends comment and review a document or web page without installing specialty software or hosting a web conference. Upload a Word document, PDF, or other file, or just pass A.nnotate a web page address, and you can start highlighting text or choosing areas to leave notes, either in the margins or as floating boxes. Once a page is started, the creator can email links to as many people as they want to comment. A free account at the site gives one person about 25 pages per month to offer for markup with unlimited annotators, but advanced offerings are available starting at $10 per month.
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cooltech786
Posted 1:32 PM 28/5/08
This seems like a great concept, but one that is far easier and works great is just using Google Docs. You share the file with friends, let them edit and make comments, and every Revision made from Day 1 is at your fingertips for access in case you didnt like some changes that somebody made, completely free, very fast, and very functional.
Microsoft Word also does an INCREDIBLE job with annotating and stuff of this sort. Very easy to use, just hit Track Changes and you are ready to go. When you get the paper back, you can go through and accept each of the changes one by one making sure that you like them, and then just rejecting the ones that you dont like. Great function, works better in Word 2007/2008 than it it did in the earlier versions.
cooltech786
cson
Posted 1:16 AM 24/5/08
takemetoyourtoaster, you may wanna look at:
[www.pdfescape.com]
which I think will do what you want (for PDF files)
cson
takemetoyourtoaster
Posted 10:09 AM 23/5/08
I would like it if there was a website wher I could say upload a paper, and ANYBODY could read it, and tell me if there were errors, and what I might want to add
takemetoyourtoaster
fwh
Posted 6:26 AM 23/5/08
Uploaded documents on A.nnotate are private by default - you can email a link with the access code to invite comments though.
fwh
ProgRocker
Posted 4:34 AM 23/5/08
Taking a cue from ghostwind's comments, allowing someone to scoop up your work can have some particularly damaging consequences. If your document covers a potentially patentable invention, you might want to think twice before posting it on a site like that.
Would such a posting constitute a "disclosure" under patent law? Depends on who has access, among other factors. There may not be a clear-cut answer to that question. If you insist on posting on such a site be very careful to whom you give access to your information.
Cheers.
ProgRocker
ghostwind
Posted 3:53 AM 23/5/08
this is a neat concept; however, being in research, having my work open to the public before publishing is a scary proposition. It would be too easy for someone to scoop up my work.
ghostwind
TheodoreNarbie
Posted 3:08 AM 23/5/08
Thanks for the mention! To answer your query, the period in A.nnotate.co doesn't mean a lot - we'd have liked to get our hands on annotate.com, but had to settle for the less-in-demand nnotate.com. Hence the subdomain "a" and the period. There may be something popping up at d.ocument.com later in the year too :) Robert (co-developer of A.nnotate)
TheodoreNarbie