The concept behind Googalyzer is interesting, though it’s probably not for everyone. It’s basically an open-source, tabbed web browser with built-in note-taking, web-clipping, outlining and bibliographic tools. The idea is to consolidate these different aspects of web research into one application.

This way you can have multiple research projects with all the relevant information kept in one place, without getting data from different project intermingled (this reminds me of the thinking behind Panic’s recent Coda web design application). If you do a lot of research online, and are not already using something like DEVONthink, this might be worth a look.

Googalyzer 3.0 beta 1 has just recently been released and is a free download from Funkware.

Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

BBC Audio and Music Interactive released a public version of their audio annotator yesterday, entitled ‘Find Listen Label’. The annotator is browser-based and is being launched in collaboration with Radio 4′s “All in the Mind” (listen to episodes of this programme in our archive here).

The annotator works by allowing users registered on the BBC website to attach notes to parts of an audio ‘stream’, and displays those notes in a time-based and synchronised manner along with the media itself, much like our own Project Pad media tools suite. Tristan Ferne has more information on his blog about Find Listen Label, or you can try it yourself.

Coverage from the BBC Backstage blog:

[Backstage Blog] Find Listen Label:

Audio and Music have just launched their Annotatable Audio project. Tristan Ferne has the scoop.

We’ve just launched Find Listen Label, previously known as Annotatable Audio. It’s a tool for BBC Radio listeners to segment and annotate radio programmes on the web – wiki style – creating better navigation within the programme by providing segments or chapters and enhancing the findability of the programme by annotating it with descriptions and tags about the content. We’ve launched this prototype with Radio 4′s “All In The Mind” as a partner programme and it will be up for around 4 weeks before we evaluate how well it has worked.

Have a play…

It will start to become really powerful when/if we launch it across many of our programmes and start to use the generated data in other products and sites, and we have plans to open the data up to backstage.

So what things could you build or do with the data from this project. Answers in the Prototype or Ideas section.

(Via Backstage.bbc.co.uk).

Digital media annotation takes another step forward with Footnote, a buzzword-compliant browsing and annotation tool for images of historical documents.

Footnote original historical document database:

Newly-hatched webapp Footnote offers an impressive database of original historical documents for searching, viewing, annotating and discussing.

See detailed images of historical documents over 100 years old like the Bill of Rights or the Gettysburg address (pictured above) in a modern, dynamic interface. Footnote offers many images for zooming and browsing for free, but you can buy a single image for 2 bucks, or become an “All Access” member for about 10 bucks a month. Great resource for history buffs, students and researchers who need primary sources. See also Wendy’s past feature on finding original documents on the web. — Gina Trapani

Footnote [via Micro Persuasion]

(Via Lifehacker).