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This sounds a little bit like the firefox extension Wikalong. With this extension installed you can make comments about a particular website and read what other people have written. Its kind of like meta data for web pages.

Any idea how Opine-It! compares to Wikalong, mentioned in another post in this subthread?

My favorite system was the P2P "Third Voice", a browser plugin which let the user attach popup sticky notes to any web page, stored in a DB the plugin checked against the "background" page's URL. That way, P2P commentary could effortlessly appear right in the context being presented, without requiring cooperation from the provider of the target content. The project folded, but I welcome its return.

Wikalong is a Firefox extension which lives in your sidebar. You can annotate any page on the web and any Wikalong user visiting that page will see your comments.

Anyone can edit any comments and you can see all the most recent comments on a web-page or using an RSS feed.

Web annotation with Wikalong. shameless plug

Yes, this is going to be big. The Firefox sidebar becomes a shared space for notes and comments - every visitor to any given web-page sees the same set of notes and can edit them. Or roll them back to a previous version. Or view a list of recently-annotated URLs.

Web annotation with Wikalong. shameless plug

A little self promotion. If you use Firefox and enjoy wikis, please take a look at the Wikalong Firefox Extension.

Wikalong embeds a wiki in your sidebar the contents of which relate to the URL you are currently viewing.

Think of it as a wiki-margin for the internet.

Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the SideBar of your browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet. (Ctrl-Shift-A to activate). I think this is the kind of extension that will really set Firefox apart from IE. Very inventive, shows why having a plugin architecture is cool. Of course, being based on wiki software, this feature needs to obtain a critical mass of users to become truly usefull. However, having a user-maintainted commentary box for every website seems like a great idea. Homepage.

I've written up a little extension called Wikalong.

Basically, it puts a wiki in your sidebar, that is indexed off the current page you are viewing. The wiki is online so anyone using the plugin, that visits a page you make notes on will see your notes, and vice versa.

It doesn't work perfectly yet, but I'm hoping to attract some smarter people than I to help get it straightened out.

More details on the site I linked above.