Seems annotations are getting wind

The ambitious project at genius.com that is enabling web annotation in large scale is starting to generate serious attention. Lately Danish paper politiken did a large feature.

It's interesting to see how well their solutions for re-localizing content and re-attaching annotations will play out as the fluidity of the web moves the material beneath their feet.


-"Huge technical challenges (like making the whole web annotatable, including volatile DOM)"<br/>they write on their recruitment page. Indeed: Everything from web masters editing their own content, users generating new social content and tiny content bits loaded dynamically by ajax into different places of different pages. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it will require website to start implementing much stricter DOM node identifications, which is not so likely since that would impede general web development a lot.

For now it's all new and exciting though, keep up at the annotated wiki web annotation page and see if their timing is better that their predecessors :)

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