Stickis
Encyclopedia
Stickis is a web service developed and offered by Activeweave, Inc.
, and one of the pioneers in the social annotation
, attention management
and ambient social networking spaces.
and search
services, and an early enabler in the ambient social networking space, where interactions with one's community happen not only at a centralized location, but possibly anywhere online. The service allows members to annotate
web pages as they browse, and share conversation and commentary about their discoveries, both in the form of sticky notes
left on top of the very pages being annotated, and in the form of blog-like
entries at a centralized, access-controlled repository.
The service is using a contextual and social web overlay technology developed by Activeweave, Inc.
, taking advantage of the add-on it built for the Firefox, Flock
and Internet Explorer
browsers to provide users with always-on, in-place access to the relevant annotations left for them by their collaborators.
and Marc A. Meyer. In early 2006, the company raised a round of eed investment
funding from business angel
s including Esther Dyson
and Eric Di Benedetto.
Stickis then launched its public beta in November 2006. The service, currently active, primarily focuses on tight-knit communities building a repository of shared accumulated knowledge, via the annotation paradigm, making commentary available to participants both as annotations and as a multi-author blog.
The annotations made by users are called "stickis" by the service, derived from Stickies, and may include any HTML markup, images, video, and widgets.
Activeweave
Activeweave, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based startup, operating in the attention management and social web arenas. It was acquired in April 2008 by Buzzlogic, Inc.-Background:...
, and one of the pioneers in the social annotation
Web annotation
A web annotation is an online annotation associated with a web resource, typically a web page. With a Web annotation system, a user can add, modify or remove information from a Web resource without modifying the resource itself...
, attention management
Attention management
Attention management refers to models and tools for supporting the management of attention at the individual or at the collective level , and at the short-term or at a longer term ....
and ambient social networking spaces.
Technology
Stickis was noted, at inception, as a significant evolution from more rudimentary social bookmarkingSocial bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them....
and search
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
services, and an early enabler in the ambient social networking space, where interactions with one's community happen not only at a centralized location, but possibly anywhere online. The service allows members to annotate
Web annotation
A web annotation is an online annotation associated with a web resource, typically a web page. With a Web annotation system, a user can add, modify or remove information from a Web resource without modifying the resource itself...
web pages as they browse, and share conversation and commentary about their discoveries, both in the form of sticky notes
Post-it note
A Post-it note is a piece of stationery with a re-adherable strip of adhesive on the back, designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces. Although now available in a wide range of colours, shapes, and sizes, Post-it notes are most commonly a square, canary yellow in colour...
left on top of the very pages being annotated, and in the form of blog-like
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
entries at a centralized, access-controlled repository.
The service is using a contextual and social web overlay technology developed by Activeweave, Inc.
Activeweave
Activeweave, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based startup, operating in the attention management and social web arenas. It was acquired in April 2008 by Buzzlogic, Inc.-Background:...
, taking advantage of the add-on it built for the Firefox, Flock
Flock (web browser)
Flock was a web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface.Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla....
and Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year...
browsers to provide users with always-on, in-place access to the relevant annotations left for them by their collaborators.
History
An initial prototype was made available to alpha testers and the press in late 2005 by software entrepreneurs Jean SiniJean Sini
Jean Sini is a San Francisco-based author, computer scientist, software executive and entrepreneur of French descent, noted for his active role in mobile computing standardization efforts, and profiled for his participation in the web 2.0 movement and ecosystem...
and Marc A. Meyer. In early 2006, the company raised a round of eed investment
Seed money
Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding, friends and family funding or angel funding , is a securities offering whereby one or more parties that have some connection to a new enterprise invest the funds necessary to start the business so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period...
funding from business angel
Angel investor
An angel investor or angel is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity...
s including Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a former journalist and Wall Street technology analyst who is a leading angel investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and commentator focused on breakthrough innovation in healthcare, government transparency, digital technology, biotechnology, and space...
and Eric Di Benedetto.
Stickis then launched its public beta in November 2006. The service, currently active, primarily focuses on tight-knit communities building a repository of shared accumulated knowledge, via the annotation paradigm, making commentary available to participants both as annotations and as a multi-author blog.
The annotations made by users are called "stickis" by the service, derived from Stickies, and may include any HTML markup, images, video, and widgets.
See also
- Mozilla Firefox
- List of Firefox extensions
- Social Software
- Web annotationWeb annotationA web annotation is an online annotation associated with a web resource, typically a web page. With a Web annotation system, a user can add, modify or remove information from a Web resource without modifying the resource itself...
- BloggingBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...