Justin Laing

From Ajaxian:

Announcing Wizlite by Alex Kirk (BandNews and Blummy creator). Wizlite is a fantastic use of Ajax for highlighting and annotating any web page. Using either a bookmarklet or a Firefox extension, you’ll see highlights and annotations from other people, each with their own colour.

The FAQ explains how publishers can make their pages “Wizlite-able” with a one-liner On-Demand Javascript script tag. “It’s like there’s a wiki in my homepage and everyone’s invited”

It’s not the first tool for annotating web pages, but others require a browser plugin, which is one massive barrier to widespread adoption. Using various Ajax technologies, Wizlite is able to work anonymously, without a plugin, and on all browsers; the Firefox extension is only an optional extra.

But when will I use it?