Website annotation tool Diigo will officially announce its new WebSlides feature next week.
The new widget is an embeddable player that presents feeds or bookmarks as live web pages in an interactive slideshow format, complete with full page content including links, comments, and ads. The widget can be sent to friends and colleagues or placed on websites, blogs, and social networks. A bit of good news for publishers: every slide view will actually register a page view for the content owner.
WebSlides also enables Diigo users to highlight important sections and annotate pages on the fly with sticky notes. Users can also bookmark, tag, share, and clip content from the pages in WebSlides for future reference in their own Diigo online folders.
To set up a WebSlides presentation, you simply enter a feed or list of bookmarks, add background music or voice narration, and click “Play”.
There is a lot of competition in the website annotation space, but Diigo’s WebSlides is the first slideshow widget to preserve total page content. Combined with Diigo’s research capabilities, WebSlides makes for a great product. The company will be presenting in the TechCrunch40 demo pit next week.
Our previous coverage of Diigo is here.
Why does this post on Diigo sound familiar. I thought i read something along these lines not so long ago or is it my mind playing tricks on me?? weird…
I believe another YCombinator company is also tackling this space right. Zenter?
Hmmmm………. Sounds very familiar…………
their annotation-on-fly is really cool and innovative. I can see a lot of use for it.
If the widget will have to be pretty big to be able to display a whole page in it.
I hope it beats slideshowpro. I bought that
this is really cool… I can see a lot of uses for it.