WebNotes

WebNotes, a Web-based highlighting and sticky note research tool, just announced the public availability of WebNotes Pro. Ryan Damico, CEO and co-founder, describes it as a "streamlined professional research offering that can revolutionize the way people collect, organize and share valuable information on the Internet."

The service, accessed through a browser plugin, is designed to make compiling research on the Web incredibly easy for professionals, corporations and educational institutions. The plugin enables users to apply virtual sticky notes on Web pages and PDFs, highlight text, and compile those annotations in a logical folder system.

They've come along way since we covered WebNotes back in January. Since then, they've managed to rack up a handful of case studies that prove the application's ability to save time and money.

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Google helps us organize the web and puts valuable information at our finger tips when we need it. But, how do we organize, track, and make sense of our notes, thoughts, ideas, and research on the web? Bookmarking is usually not enough. The whole process isn't very easy and its exactly what Ryan Damico set out to solve with his startup, WebNotes.

WebNotes helps you annotate the web, organize your notes, and share comments with friends, colleagues, and fellow researchers. The online service and browser plugin enables you to do this by highlighting and placing sticky notes on any particular webpage. You can then store these annotations in folders that you can share immediately or revert back to at any time.

After graduating from MIT in 2006 and working at Avid Technologies for two years, Ryan decided to teach himself browser programming and took off with the idea. So far, they are off to a great start and currently in private beta testing. Their solution comes at an opportune time because Google just decided to discontinue their Google Notebook application. I'm not sure if this is because people weren't using it or if its part of Google's strategy to reduce costs during the downturn for less profitable ventures. Eitherway, there will be people searching for a new way to take notes online. Continue Reading...