Fleck.com: Annotate the Websites you Visit

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December 4, 2006 ||

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Last month I came across this amazing site which I thought can improve its usability features a little bit. In hurry I Bookmarked the site and re-visited my bookmarks 2 days later, guess what! I couldn’t remember what I thought about the site.

So the moral of the story is use Fleck instead of Bookmarking if you have something specific about the feature or the website on the whole!

Now the next logical question is what the heck is Fleck? Let me tell you! Fleck is a revolutionary idea which lets you create something like "3M Post-it" one the webpage’s and save it. This can come in real handy if you want to show something specific about a site or a page to someone on the other side of the globe. Click here to see an example.

The Fleck team intelligently created Bookmarklet, Browser Extension, Widgets, Wordpress Plug-ins to widen their reach and have larger user base. I liked the Bookmarklet and did leave it on my browser and I will certainly play around with it for a while.

Let’s see where Fleck can improve its great product (first things first)

Fleck On Browsers: Fleck I tried using Fleck with FireFox, Opera and Internet Explorer. As it worked well with FireFox and Opera, there is still some work to be done for the Internet Explorer users and from what I hear the Fleck team is already on it. Click here to see an example of IE.
Flash Enable Site: I tried Fleck on my personal site SyedAbbas.com to see how it works with Flash and the "Note" and "Bullet" went under the embedded flash on the page. Click here to see an example.
Browser Extensions: Fleck offers an extension for FireFox and IE users. I tried the IE extension but it didn’t work. It did complete the installation successfully however not did not show any button on the navigation bar.
WordPress Plug-in: I love the thought but not the execution. What I did not like about the plug in is that once the plug-in is activated it automatically starts showing up on Single Post pages. It would be better if the plug-in offers a piece of code which can be placed anywhere instead of Fleck deciding how and where it shows. With the little coding knowledge I have, I might be able to decide where is shows but not everyone can do this.
Fleck Fonts: I do not know how important this is and if people would even think of this but I though the option of changing the font size should have been there.