Glass is a cool Firefox add-on that allows you to "write" on any website, sharing "slides" (notes) with anyone you wish (and anyone willing to install the add-on and set up an account). I've seen a few attempts at this in various incarnations (one particularly useful one to me is Wired Marker, which allows you to highlight stuff on a page) but Glass looks quite easy to use and provides a real benefit to web designers, or marketers or anyone who frequently needs to add context to a link in an email.
Glass slides can be stored locally but are also kept online, and much in the way Buzz tries to be helpful by reminding you of how many unread items you have, Glass has a feed with comments left by anyone you invited to share your slides with. The feed is a list of your conversations, and the slides are those conversations left on specific URLs. It's a terrific service that is currently in a semi-private beta. We'll have a more in-depth look at it later, but for now here's the Glass marketing director explaining the service.
DLS @ SXSW - Glass originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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