CiteLighter -- the new woven web
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- Category: The Web's Edge -- peering into the future
- Published on Thursday, 05 January 2012 16:07
With all the new sites coming out daily, you probably missed Citelighter. It, after all, didn't offer much that you were looking for.
Unless of course you wanted a good understanding of where the web is going.
The site, designed to help students and other build research into a term paper or the like, is an amazing stew of web technologies.
Sure, you can highlight and save quotes from relevant web pages (not so clever of a technology anymore.) Sure it captures the reference and lets you choose APA, ALA or Chicago styles.
Sure, it lets you notify friends ( after all we are on the social web) -- and fosters team work.
It also pastes all of your reference into a document and lets you build your own thoughts and writings around it.
But, the real difference here is that is dumps all of this stuff into a formatted word document with footnotes and references.
What's left for you to do? Put the pretty polish on your words.
The key here is tying diverse technologies together. I think this is where the web will shine in the next few years. Not those web sites that give you a calendar, or an online processor. The shining web sites will be the ones that go through your work process and
- simplify it,
- automate it,
- and improve upon it.
After all, isn't that what technology was always suppose to do?
Even if you will never use it, watch the video. Then use Citelighter as a yardstick the next time someone tells you she has the greatest new site on the web.