I have many, but the one that I invested most time in was QuoteVault http://www.quotevault.org/ It's a website where you can save interesting quotes from other sites or even pages / books. There's also a browser bookmark that allows you to select text on a website and import it into quotevault right away. Finally, there's a small public stream (much like your twitter stream) where you can share interesting quotes.
I've used the tool a lot, but I never really advertised it, in fear of failure I guess, so there're very few other users except for me. I still have a huge database of assorted business and entrepeneurship quotes in there though.
I would have js bookmarklets and remove need for signups initially. Make it into a sort of pastebin. Also, make it a summary tool too (for oneself and for sharing.) Allow users to enter alternate headline, summary, quote/s, ranking, judgement.
Check out quote.fm and drop me a line if you want to see my screenshots, brainstorm or see my other research into this idea.
Hey, thanks, that looks really nice. I mostly gave up on QuoteVault since I'm busy with other projects now. However, one thing I still lack is a good solution for reading texts offline and highlighting quotes in there. There's instapaper, kippt, and many others, but they all just allow offline reading, but no offline highlighting. There's one solution, which does kinda work, but the offline support is wonky. I'm seriously considering building a small app that reads read-later lists from different services and saves the quote data somewhere else via an API. Would quote.fm allow something like that? I see there's a read-api, but I haven't seen a way to add an article or add a quote for an article. Or did I misunderstand something? You can also hit me by mail for further discussions if you're interested. terhechte AT gmail com
Here's a public quote from my public stream: http://quotevault.appspot.com/public/terhechte/261221
I've used the tool a lot, but I never really advertised it, in fear of failure I guess, so there're very few other users except for me. I still have a huge database of assorted business and entrepeneurship quotes in there though.