Hope the researcher has used Google notebook so you know what I meant.

I want to implement something similar to Google Notebook browser
plugin. I mean the little notebook icon at the right corner of the
browser screen (Is this icon a browser plugin? I assume it is).
The icon is loaded into the browser when the browser is started. After the user
clicks the icon, a small window is popped up and a web page is loaded
in that window.
I am not very familiar with Windows programming. I do not know how to
implement the  small notebook icon at the right bottom corner of the browser.
Can anyone give me some tips how I can get started such as: 

1. If I use Visual studio,  which kind of project, API, windows
control should I use to implement the notebook icon?
How to make the icon available when the browser is started.

2. Any other stuff, sample code or document if you think it is helpful. 

thanks in advance, 
Qiang

i think you need a status bar; here's the MSDN link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/status/reflist.asp

you can put icons in the status bar, but i have never used google
notebook, so i don't know what you mean beyond that.