My favorite thing about Facebook is getting those stupid alerts in the tiny red box that appears in the lower right-hand corner when I’m signed onto Facebook. It seems silly, but these notifications are irresistible and even though they’re being taken over by my application “reminder” prods, I still like to see who commented on one of my shared links or who tagged a photo of me.

So what if the entire web could be like your overly-informative Facebook account? Tiseme has found a way to do so, by creating a conversation platform that operates from your browser instead of merely a stand-alone site. And it even has those stupid alerts in the tiny red box, which appear in the lower right-hand corner of my browser. This is powered by the Tiseme browser toolbar, which takes a few seconds to download.

Launching its private beta today, Tiseme combines web sharing, annotation, comment threads and activity streams into a single application. Tiseme also links to your Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed and Seesmic accounts in order to enable additional media-sharing capabilities. If you’re reading this article, for instance, and you’d like to share it with friends, you can click on the “share” button on your Tiseme toolbar and select the ways in which you’d like to share this article. Share it via a private direct message on Tiseme, or simply shoot an email to a friend.
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