LightTag, a newly launched startup from a former NLP researcher at Citi, has built a “text annotation platform” designed to assist data scientists who need to quickly create training data for their AI ...

Yet another web annotation service is launching today. WebNotes is releasing virtual highlighting and sticky-note tools designed to help people track and annotate online content. The tools let users ...

Instapaper, the app that lets you save and share online articles, has just launched a new annotation functionality called Notes. The feature allows users to select a piece of text from an article or ...

I read a post by Bill Slawski about an enhancement to anchor text for inbound links. Instead of using the anchor text itself, it uses surrounding text. The implications if it’s in use are tremendous.

Would researchers scrawl notes, critiques and comments across online research papers if software made the annotation easy for them? Dan Whaley, founder of the non-profit organization Hypothes.is, ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...