Collaborative web page snapshots with annotation: SharedCopy
One of the biggest headaches in working remotely is not being able to see exactly what your collaborators see, and then having to interpret what may unfortunately be difficult to understand descriptions (or just plain f#*!ing nonsense as the case may be...)
NO MORE!
SharedCopy could put an end to this. Add annotations, highlight text, draw shapes to highlight areas, take a snapshot of the page as you are seeing it and share with your team.
For developers, you can easily and visually point out areas that need tweaking.
For support providers, if you can get the client to use it, they can at last show you exactly what the hell they are banging on about! And you can send them a snapshot with that button (that they can't seem to find with both hands) highlighted.
Watch out the demo video to get the idea:
One particularly handy way to utilise it is to make your bookmarks far more valuable - open your links and have the crucial information highlighted with your own notes or corrections.
With email, Blogger, Twitter, Del.icio.us, Basecamp, Backpack, Trac and Bugzilla integration, auto trackbacks - all from a bookmarklet with no sign-up necessary - this is a tool with incredible potential. It's been around for years apparently, and I had no idea. They even have Posterous integration!
I started using Diigo for similar purposes recently, but SharedCopy may well have it beat.
If this all sounds like an advert, well I guess I just write good copy. Mainly I wanted to save a note for myself in my blog, but I thought I might as well make it useful to others.
Check it out:
