Getting started is easy, simply add provided bookmarket onto your browser and click it to activate useKit. It will then open a toolbar at the left bottom of your browser with each of the mentioned tools presented as icons. Just click the tool you need and use.

The application is completely free and no registration is necessary.  Registering however, has its own advantages such as storing and managing all your missions (notes, translations, tweets… etc) in one place online.

Features:

• Enhances your browsing with additional features.
• Add notes to web pages.
• Quickly map addresses you come across while browsing.
• Translate and tweet any highlighted text.
• Bookmark pages to Delicious.
• Supports bookmarklet and Firefox addon.
• Free and no sign up necessary.
• Registering lets you store and manage your notes, translations and tweets in one place.

Check out useKit @ www.usekit.com

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• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• What Language is This: Online Language Identifier
• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos

Basically, this tool is targeted at those who analyze and share the web such as researchers, power- web users, PR firms and big businesses.

After downloading the toolbar and completing the very helpful tutorial on the website you’ll be able to highlight portions of the webpage, add sticky notes to it and then save it to your profile. It also allows you to convert the webpage along with all of your notes into PDF format so you can e-mail it to people to see your thoughts about the page.

It’s really easy to set-up and use. Within ten minutes I had a PDF webpage saved and was familiar with the toolbar. It will work on multiple browsers including IE, Firefox and Chrome; all of which have their own tutorial to meet the needs of the user.

To learn more watch demo below:

WebNotes is not the only app for annotating web pages, other such tools that we profiled on MakeUseOf include RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and some more.

Check out WebNote @ www.webnotes.net (by Dean Sherwin)

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• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• AwesomeHighlighter : Highlight and Share Webpages

As you can see in the above screenshots, when you select text on a webpage it presents you with two separate boxes which include a huge number of options like adding tags, description, sharing and emailing the selected text.

When you are done and go back to the main site, you can see your saved text and other information in a new interface, which is shown in the screenshot below.

If you liked this tool you can also check iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit and AwesomeHightlighter.

Check out RoohIt @ www.roohit.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• useKit: Makes Web Browsing More Efficient
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online

Enter iCyte. It is an add-on for your browser that lets you highlight text on a web page and save only the highlighted portion, annotate it, add relevant tags and save it online. You may also organize these bookmarks into separate projects and share them with others.

To get started, install the browser plugin and get yourself an account. When you are at a webpage that has something you need for later, you may highlight a specific part or the whole webpage and click on iCyte button in your browser toolbar. Next you have to add the bookmark to an existing project or assign it to a new one. Then enter tags, optionally add notes and hit Save button.

You can then access all your bookmarks from your online account, organized by projects and by tags. All the bookmarked pages are archived on site’s servers, so you won’t have a problem of broken links.

Features:

• Web page highlighter for highlighting and saving text from any webpage.
• Annotate and add tags to your bookmarks.
• Access bookmarked pages online in your account.
• Organize bookmarks into separate projects.
• Share bookmarks and collaborate with other people.
• Browser add-on available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 6/7.
• Sign up for an account and install the browser add-on.
• Fore more info watch demo video.
• Similar tools: Ibrii, Markkit and AwesomeHightlighter.

Check out iCyte @ www.icyte.com

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• AwesomeHighlighter : Highlight and Share Webpages

The Taggify widget can be easily embedded on any blog or website using a simple HTML code and customized to your site’s appearance.

Features:

• Describe images by tagging regions of an image.
• Viewers see the tagged information when they mouse over the region.
• Make the regions clickable to redirect users to a different URL.
• Customize the widget to match the look of your website.
• Compatible with IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Netscape browsers.
• Tags can be also listed below the image and linked to specific regions.

Check out Taggify @ www.taggify.net (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• YouGotPhoto: Easily Add Online Images To Digital Photo Frames
• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• WatchItToo: View Photos & Watch Videos Together
• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos

The maps can be also downloaded as KML/GPX file.

Features:

• Draw lines and mark on maps online.
• Scribble or draw lines and arrows.
• Add markers and text.
• Share maps by forwarding email or embedding on your site.
• Save maps on to your computer as KML/GPX.
• Similar apps: UMapper and QuickMaps.

Check out ScribleMaps @ www.scribblemaps.com

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• Tmeet.me: Easy Way To Tweet Locations
• GetLatLon: Find latitude and longitude coordinates of any place
• Filmaps: Film Locations Finder
• FamousLocations: Find Out Where Movies Were Filmed
• Zipdecode: Visualize Zip Code Location as You Type

All highlighted pages have their own markkit URLs, so you can bookmark them and share with other. You can also view your recent highlights simply by clicking on “marrkit” button that appears to right within the web page. To unmark the highlighted text simply point your cursor and then click “unmark”.

Features:

• Highlight text on a web page.
• No download or installation.
• When you want to highlight a text, click on the Markkit bookmarklet.
• View your recently highlighted text excerpts by clicking on Marrkit logo on the page.
• Works with Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome browsers.
• Free, easy to use and no registration.
• Similar sites: AwesomeHighlighter

Check out Markkit @ www.markkit.net

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• MultiLinks: Multiple Link Opener & Bookmarker
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online

1. the traditional, linear text based search results on the left,
2. a thumbnail view of those same results on the right.

You can pan and zoom your search results like you would on any web map. When you find that you want to save you can add it to a personal workpad. You can optionally share your workpads for collaborative research efforts with friends and colleagues.

Features :

• Useful search engine for collaborative research.
• View results broken into two areas, screenshots and text results.
• Place cursor over a screenshot to see corresponding text result highlighted.
• Zoom-in on your search results like you would on an online map.
• Customize text size, zoom settings, change screenshot layout etc.
• Group and save individual or multiple results in workpads.
• Add personal notes to results.
• Share and collaborate on workpads with others.
• Also see: Tafiti and Diigo.

For more info check out slideshow tutorials below:

Check out MiddleSpot @ www.middlespot.com

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• AwesomeHighlighter : Highlight and Share Webpages

The extension is available for IE and Firefox. It appears as a sidebar on your browser and you could write a comment there and categorize it under any of the different topics available, based on the nature of the comment.

Since it’s a social tool too, it allows you to share your comments with others who can then bookmark or rate your comment or further share it with their own friends.

Watch this video to understand more about this tool.

Check out ReframeIt @ www.reframeit.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• Clipmarks
• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos
• useKit: Makes Web Browsing More Efficient
• Top 20 Wordpress Plugins for Power Users (makeuseof.com)

ShowDocument gives participants a dashboard where they can interact on the document together. Point cursor over different sections, mark and highlight text, draw objects, type text and chat etc.

Features:

• Show and collaborate on documents (PDF, Word etc.) online in real-time.
• Browse docs together, mark with pen and highlighter, add text, live chat etc.
• Download and save annotated documents as PDF.
• No signup or registration needed.

Check out ShowDocument @ www.showdocument.com

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• Co-ment : Annotate and Collaborate on Text Documents
• BookGoo: Highlight, Annotate and Share Documents Online
• A.nnotate: Annotate PDF, Word, Excel and Web Pages Online
• XY WriteIt : Collaborate on Text Documents with Others
• Top 3 FREE web-based Office Suites (makeuseof.com)

Once you’re done working with the video you can instantly upload it to YouTube for sharing… To get a better idea on type of things you can do with BrishVideo check out latest videos section on the site. I also added one sample below.

Features:

• Basic online video editor with drag’d drop functionality.
• Add text, watermarks, paint, mix, background audio, webcam recordings etc.
• Maximum allowed video size: 100MB.
• Embed videos onto your blog or website.
• YouTube integration: upload edited videos onto Youtube.
• Keep track of edited videos from one place (signup required).
• Check out videos of other users, rate and leave comments.

Sample video

Check out BrushVideo @ www.brushvideo.com

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• BubblePly: Annotate and Comment on Youtube Vids
• Asterpix : Video Annotation
• Yubby: Share Favorite Online Videos As A Video Channel
• YtDub: YouTube Video Dubbing Tool
• Xtranormal: Cool Online Flash Movie Maker

From the page:

“Stix.to gives you a layer on top of the Internet. You can go to any page you wish, put a note, chat, picture or video on top of that page. Share your layer with friends, link to it from your blog, or just see what pops up when you surf around.”

Features:

• Leave marks on any web page.
• Leave simple sticky notes, interactive chat boxes and spoken messages.
• Keep your marks private or public.
• Optionally check out marks left by other users, you can select which marks you want to see, all marks or only marks from friends..
• Add images and videos to your notes and chat boxes.
• Join groups or invite friends to share your marks.
• Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer 7 and  Firefox .
• For more similar services go here.

Visit Stix.to @ www.stix.to

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos
• useKit: Makes Web Browsing More Efficient
• Taggify: Tag Faces on Photos with Tooltips
• ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser

Features:

• Add text to pictures and share them with others.
• Upload image from your PC or get them as an image from a webpage.
• Add comments to as many images as you like.
• Firefox addon: Send images to FineTuna editor from any webpage.
• No sign-up or registration required.
• PicBite is another web app that can be used for the task.

Check out Finetuna @ www.finetuna.com

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• WriteOnIt: Create Fake Photos, Captions and Magazines
• RoundMyCorners: Make Pictures with Round Corners
• PicBite : Annotate Images Online
• Photoshop Lady: Cool Photoshop Tutorials
• Monjee: Generate Faces and Add Effects To Them

Furthermore, you can browse files uploaded by others, read their notes, add your own notes, check out recent or most popular uploads and more.

Features:

• Highlight, annotate and collaborate on documents and web pages online.
• Manage and share as many files as you want.
• Add comments, highlight parts, draw scribbles, etc.
• Grab documents from the web or uplod from computer.
• Supported file formats: MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, HTML, GIF and PNG.
• Keep documents private or public.
• Check out recent and popular public documents uploaded by other users.
• See BookGoo video demo here.

Check out BookGoo @ www.bookgoo.com

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• ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser
• Co-ment : Annotate and Collaborate on Text Documents
• A.nnotate: Annotate PDF, Word, Excel and Web Pages Online
• XY WriteIt : Collaborate on Text Documents with Others
• Top 3 FREE web-based Office Suites (makeuseof.com)

Features:

• Annotate PDFand Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and web pages online.
• Invite and allow others to comment on and annotate the document.
• Only authorized viewers can see notes and add replies.
• Each document has a simple searchable / sortable index of all added annotations.
• Organize annotation notes using keywords (tags).
• View notes in different modes (as boxes over the text, in the right margin, as footnotes, etc).
• You can see more Annotate screenshots here and sample annotate document here.

Free accounts are limited to 1 editor and 150 credits/month. Editor is someone who is able to upload and delete documents and to make web snapshots. However each document can be shared with an unlimited number of annotators for no extra charge.

Check out Annotate @ http://a.nnotate.com

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• GuardarComoPDF: Convert doc, txt, rtf, jpeg, xls, ppt to PDF online
• Verbosus: Web Based LaTex Editor
• ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser
• Revizr: Collaborative Document Editing Tool
• PDF Pirate: PDF Restrictions Remover Freeware

Features:

• Annotate images online.
• Upload images from the computer or webpage.
• Optionally crop and resize images before commenting.
• Embed annotated images online.
• Download ready images to your hard drive or store it on PicBite.
• Supported file formats : jpg, gif, png, and bmp.
• Note: In order for images to remain online it needs to be accessed at least once a year.

Check out PicBite @ www.picbite.com

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• Finetuna: Add Text to Pictures
• YearbookYourself: Give your Photos 1950s, 60s, 70s …. look
• WriteOnIt: Create Fake Photos, Captions and Magazines
• Word Mosaic: Make Cool Word Mosaic Images
• Wiredness

Features

• Highlight webpages and bookmark page highlights for future refrence.
• Bookmarklet / Firefox Extension – Highlight webpages without going to AwesomeHighlighter.com.
• Send highlighted webpages to your Twitter account.
• Highlight colors: yellow, blue, green and red.
• See sample highlighted page here (for the above screenshot) .
• Browse through recent highlights by other users

Check out AwesomeHighlighter www.awesomehighlighter.com

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• Shortless : Shorten Long Links
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple

Document Workspace

Document Editor

Commenting / Annotation

Co-ment Features

• Create, edit, share, collaborate and annotate text documents online.
• Upload existing documents from local hard drive or create new ones.
• Supported document formats: Open Office, Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, Text docs (txt), etc.
• Annotation: Highlight any text and comment on it.
• Allow others to see and/or comment on the text.
• Different sharing modes: Observer, Commentater, Moderator, Editor, Owner.
• Document History: Review list of all changes and comments.
• Download documents (or export) as PDF, RTF, ODT (Open Office), DOC (M. Word) or TXT.
• You can download either just document or document + comments.
• Powerful text search and comment filtering capabilities.
• Print documents

Check out Co-ment @ www.co-ment.net

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• ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser
• Peepel: Online Word and Spreadsheet
• MonkeyTex : Online LaTex Editor
• iPaper@Scribd : Document Email Attachments Made Simple

1. Get more information on video objects of interest during video playback.
2. Navigate directly to specific video scenes without having to watch the entire video.

Asterpix Features

• Video Annotation: Add notes to any object (moving/static) in the video.
• Annotate any video on the web (Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc.).
• Searching for videos or notes on Asterpix.com
• View all video ‘HotSpots’ and jump to any ‘HotSpot’ in the video.
• Share annotated videos with others.
• Embed your hypervideo directly onto your website or blog.
• Link to relevant “hotspot” in the video directly from the article.
• More Questions? Check videos below or go to Asterpix’s Learn more section.

Asterpix Video demos

1. Creating HyperVideos:

2. Interacting with videos:

Visit Asterpix [www.asterpix.com]

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• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos
• FixMyMovie : Improve Quality of Low Resolution Videos
• BubblePly: Annotate and Comment on Youtube Vids
• BrushVideo: Free Online Video Editing Tool
• Zamzar

Viddler Overview

• Upload and Share videos: Supports most of the video formats: .mov, .avi, .wmv, AND .mpeg. Note: max. video size is limited to 500 MB.
• Add timed Tags: tag particular moments on the video timeline. Timed tags are searchable.
• Add timed Comments: comment on and discuss specific moments on the video.
• Option to upload live footage from your camera directly to your Viddler account
• Embed Viddler videos anywhere on the web. (see below)
• Explore Viddler videos by: popularity, tags, users, and more.

Viddler video (demo):

Viddler Review (by 1938media):

Go to Viddler @ (www.viddler.com)

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• Asterpix : Video Annotation
• Zamzar
• Yuscano : Skim Through Popular Youtube Videos
• YoutubeDesktop: Cool Youtube Browser (and Downloader)
• YouConvertIt : Online File and Unit Converter

The best part of it is that Clipmarks lets other users (and they have many of them) vote and comment on user saved clips. Popular and highest voted clips are featured on the website’s home page creating in itself a good destination for daily read.

Features:

• Save/share favorite parts from any webpage
• Browse popular clips for Now/ Today/ This Week/ This Month
• To start clipping you need to install Clipmarks browser addon (Firefox, IE)
• Learn more

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• ReframeIt: Innovative Web Annotation Tool
• Notefish: Simple And Effective Online Note Taking App
• Google Notebook
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software

Features:

• Add text, images and links to your notebook by highlighting them and clicking the clip button on your notebook icon (in status bar)
• Through the full-page mode (in menu) you can access your entire notebook with all clippings and organize it into various sections and rearrange by dropping and dragging ‘texts’ between sections
• Add personal input by either -the ‘new note’ button which lets you add text to your notebook- or -the ‘add comment’ button to add comments to clippings-
• Use your notebook as collaboration tool by allowing friends to edit your notebook or publish it (people can access via unique web address and in the public google notebook directory)
• Look up other notebooks that users have created and published

Visit: Google Notebook

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• Stixy – Online Bulletin Board
• ShowDocument: Live Document Collaboration in Your Browser
• ShortText : Capture and Save Webpage Highlights Online
• Protonotes: Collaborate When Working With HTML Prototypes
• Linoit : Online Sticky Notes for Groups

BubblePly Features

• Grab video that you want to annotate directly from the URL.
• Supports over 40 video sharing websites including Youtube, Myspace, Dailymotion, Veoh, Break, etc.
• Annotate videos: Add Clipart images, animated bubbles, subtitles, text etc.
• Style annotations and set them to appear at specific time frames.
• Upload and add images and videos from your computer.
• Embed annotated videos on any webpage.
• Browser plugin for Firefox, Safari, and IE users: From watching to creating in just one click.
• For additional details go to BubbleFly FAQ page.

[Video] Bubbleply – Easily add comments, images, & hyperlinks to vids

Check out BubblePly @ www.bubbleply.com

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• YtDub: YouTube Video Dubbing Tool
• TubePopper: Pimp YouTube Videos with Speech Bubbles & Subtitles
• TubeChop: Chop and Share Parts From YouTube Vids
• Subyo : Add Subtitles to YouTube Videos
• Splicd: Crop and Cut Parts from YouTube Videos