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What is IBM Web Highlights?
IBM Web Highlights is a social Web 2.0 application that allows quick creation, sharing, and discussion of Web snippets and Web pages. The snippets are in the form of highlights that can be independently created and then discussed between members of the IBM Web Highlights community and groups.
How does it work?
A highlight is a selected portion of a Web page. Highlights can be manually created using IBM Web Highlights or, when using Firefox and the ffHighlightr extension, by selecting the portion of the page, right-clicking, and selecting the Send to IBM Web Highlights menu option. After highlights are created, they can be shared, tagged, rated, and commented on.
Highlights can also be searched for, sorted, and modified by their creators and the entire community. Public highlights are accessible (by view, search, comment, and tag) by the entire community, private highlights by its creator, and group highlights by a subset of the IBM Web Highlights community. Only the highlight creator and system administrator can delete or modify a highlight.
On Windows, ZIP files require an unzipping utility such as Winzip.
| About the technology authors |
 E. Michael "Max" Maximilien, Ph.D., is a research staff member at IBM®'s Almaden Services Research group in San Jose, California. Prior to joining ASR, he spent ten years at IBM's Research Triangle Park, N.C., in software development and architecture. Dr. Maximilien led various small- to medium-sized teams, designing and developing enterprise and embedded Java™ software; he is a founding member and contributor to three worldwide Java and UML industry standards. Dr. Maximilien's primary research interests lie in distributed systems and software engineering, especially Web APIs and services, mash-ups, Web 2.0, SOA (service-oriented architecture), and Agile methods and practices. He can be reached through his Web site.
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| Ajith Ranabahu is a Ph.D. student at Wright State University's Kno.e.sis Center in Dayton, Ohio. Previously, he worked for three years as a software engineer. Mr. Ranabahu is a member of the Project Management Committee (PMC) for the Apache Web Services project and is one of the key committers in the Apache Axis2 Java project. He has also made many contributions to related open-source projects, such as XmlSchema and AXIOM.
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Date Posted: December 06, 2007
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E. Michael "Max" Maximilien, Ph.D., is a research staff member at IBM®'s Almaden Services Research group in San Jose, California. Prior to joining ASR, he spent ten years at IBM's Research Triangle Park, N.C., in software development and architecture. Dr. Maximilien led various small- to medium-sized teams, designing and developing enterprise and embedded Java™ software; he is a founding member and contributor to three worldwide Java and UML industry standards. Dr. Maximilien's primary research interests lie in distributed systems and software engineering, especially Web APIs and services, mash-ups, Web 2.0, SOA (service-oriented architecture), and Agile methods and practices. He can be reached through his 
