Awesome Highlighter: Highlight web text before sharing URLs

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Awesome Highlighter: Highlight web text before sharing URLs

by Brad Linder Mar 12th 2008

When you send a URL to a friend, it's probably a good idea to include a note letting them know why you sent it. But if you're too lazy for that, you could always just highlight the snippet of text you really want them to read. Awesome Highlighter lets you markup any web page and then share the results.

All you have to do is enter the URL of the page you want to highlight, and then select the text to highlight in yellow. When you're finished, just click the "Done" button in the Awesome Highlighter toolbar and the page will be saved to your account (if you haven't registered for an account pages will still be saved, but you won't be able to see them if you visit the site with another browser). You can also share links to highlighted pages with others using a TinyURL style shortened URL.

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: awesome-highlighter, highlight, tinyurl

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Luke said 6:32AM on 3-13-2008

Thank you for the cool post! We are trying hard to live up to the name.

Stayed tuned for improved functionality and reliability. :)

Luke - awesomehighlighter

Maggie Tsao said 10:18PM on 3-16-2008

I invite you to check out the web highlighter at diigo.com -- it has been around since 2006, and is now quite mature and much more powerful, with hundreds of thousands happy users.

A major upgrade forthcoming will make it simply the best web highlighter, and social bookmarking and annotation tool on the web.

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