Guidance for Web Publishers
Hypothesis enables you annotate the Web. However, some things work better if we know just a little bit more about the web resource that you are annotating. For example, imagine […]
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Epub.js: Bringing Open Annotation to Books
Why should we annotate books? Here’s a short story to illustrate: Once upon a time, there were two notable ink-makers, Amaz and Applet (there were others of course, but those […]
Fuzzy Anchoring
Overview A large part of the unique potential of annotation comes from its ability to point inside media to specific places. Because of this, we must be able to reliably […]
Designers and Geeks
Recently we had the opportunity to present to Joe Robinson’s excellent Designers and Geeks series, which we gladly accepted. Several hundred local designers gathered this last Thursday at Yelp, and […]
I Annotate: A Workshop.
After two decades of progress in infrastructure and web technologies, we believe the time is finally at hand to realize the widespread annotation of human knowledge. On a recent call […]
Embedded Annotations
One of the key features of annotation is the ability to link not only to the top of a document, but to passages within it. We can think of an […]
Welcoming Peter Brantley
As Hypothes.is moves from an early concept to a functional prototype and ultimately to a deployed application, it is essential that we organize ourselves to understand the primary communities of […]
2012 End of Year Update
Friends of Hypothesis: While we’ve been fairly regular in our code contributions on github, in our tweets and more recently on our blog, we’re past due for an outbound communication […]
Our Interface
Our project aims to allow the collaborative evaluation of information on the web. Our entry point is a website annotation tool. At this stage, there are a few goals for […]
An Open Letter to Marc Andreessen and Rap Genius
When I got up this morning, I saw the remarkable news that VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz had announced a $15M investment in rap music annotation site Rap Genius. Congratulations to the […]