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Competing Approaches |
SitScape |
Email |
- Email links or copy and paste content
- Lose context
- Hard to manage
- Email overflow
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- In-context collect and share
- Preserve visual context and dynamic functionalities
- Central Web-based collaboration and organization
- Reduced email cluttering
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Social Bookmarking(Delicious, Diigo) |
- Share links only, not content
- Lose context of annotation
- Have to go back to original page of each link to know the content
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- Can bookmark, collect and share at component-level, instead of just page-level
- Can preview, load and run collected live component right in the new aggregation environment without the need to go back to original page
- Visual bookmarking, preserve the image snapshot of component of area of pages for each preview
- Caching of content enable powerful full-text search
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Note Taking and Clipping Services (Google Notebook, Clipmarks) |
- Can only copy and paste (clip) static context such as text or images from Web pages
- Focus on consumer space, not on enterprise application
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- Can live clip any part of any dynamic Web application via live widget-on-demand
- Always live and dynamic
- Enterprise-ready with fine-grained visibility and access control
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Document Management System (SharePoint) |
- Good for sharing traditional documents, not web-based rich-media and social media content
- Use traditional upload/download model
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- Natively support collect and sharing of web-based rich-media content
- Can also support traditional document sharing with the advantage of viewing them right inside browser without the need of MS Office installed
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