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Want to go wild on the big WWW, leave your mark for all to see, but don’t know how or want to start hacking web pages? Fleck allows you to interact with pages on the web just as if they were pages in a magazine. You can save your annotated page for yourself, send it to friends or colleagues, or use it in your blog. After using it for about 15 minutes, I think it is kinda cool but something tells me that there is another program that does this on the web as well, but I can’t remember what it is called (anyone?).

There’s a long list of features that Fleck aims to roll out in time, including photo integration, arrows, multi-language support and Pro accounts with premium features. If they can make this a more fleshed out service while retaining the incredible simplicity it offers now, Fleck could grow into a particularly solid contender in the web page annotation space. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

You can start using Fleck right now. It’s a free download for Firefox (IE is on its way). It really is as simple as that, there is nothing more to say other than go try it out.

Update: Other competing sites I know of are TrailFire and Diigo

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Diigo (pronounced as “dee’go") allows you to add highlights and sticky notes on any web page you read.  Think of a giant transparency overlaying on top of all the web pages. You can write on the transparency as you wish, as private notes or public comments. And you can read public comments on the transparency left by other readers of the same page, and hear their “two cents” and interact with them. Essentially, Diigo overlays a Web 2.0 skin on top of the entire web and makes the entire web into a writable, and even more participatory / interactive media.

When you need to forward some web pages to friends, and colleagues, instead of the whole page, you can highlight specific paragraphs and forward the annotated pages. You also get other cool features such as full-text search of all your bookmarks, notes, subscriptions to bookmarks by your friends or people with common interests.