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MADCOW is a client-server application software enabling users to associate web notes to
any interesting portion of a web page.
In fact, while navigating the web with a standard
browser (Internet Explorer), the user can select a portion of text, an image or any
other multimedia content in the page and click on the 'create-annotation' button in
the MADCOW toolbar.
A dialog window pops up where he/she can add his comment, attach
any multimedia file of his/her choice, and chose one out of the 9 annotation types
(comment, question, announcement, explanation, integration, etc.). The web note is
automatically saved in the MADCOW servers, and can be retrieved in any further browsing
session: when the user accesses the annotated web page again, he/she finds an icon next
to the annotated part; clicking on the icon, the web note is loaded in a new browser
window.
The web notes can be accessed also by other users, provided the author
declared it as public in the 'create-annotation' window. This fosters cooperative
work, as it becomes possible to start discussions about any topic, binding the web
notes to the object of discussion. Note that an annotation can be annotated in turn,
allowing threads in the discussion.
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MadCow Toolbar Lite
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Web page with web notes
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