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Abstract

The invention provides a generalized tool for information publishing and personal communication that is not limited to a dedicated purpose. The invention improves the processes associated with the creation, review, alteration, distribution and publishing of a compound derivative digital object capturing information on referred content accessible to users on an electronic information network and comprises any of the relevant characteristics of the referred content, such as its name, headline, content excerpt or sample, thumbnail-size illustration, link to network location. In particular, the invention provides an apparatus and method for easy capturing of such characteristics of referred content in a derivative digital object, altering its components and storing or transferring such derivative digital object, in the form expressed in a flyer metaphor, to other users of the electronic information network. Another embodiment of the invention describes the creation of digital objects based on user-defined content components and the combination of user-defined content components with derivative components obtained through the capturing process. In other embodiment of the invention provides means for annotation of the digital object by its publisher, sender or recipient, whereby personal notes, ratings, category labels, association links are attached to the digital object and the resulting compound digital object, expressed in a flyer metaphor, is stored on a network server in a limited or unlimited fashion for access and use by other network users.

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