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First, there's been tools like this for a while. MS had an annotations tool built into IE in the 90s. (Though I think it required some sort of Office server or
by MichaelGG 11y ago
First, there's been tools like this for a while. MS had an annotations tool built into IE in the 90s. (Though I think it required some sort of Office server or something.)
Second, her reasoning seems to revolve around not having comments on her site. Isn't this literally what every link aggregator from HN to reddit does?
She mentions reddit and others, but doesn't explain how they're different. Apparently it's because people can "scribble" "on her website". This makes News Genius "worse than Twitter". I guess if reddit created a browser plugin she'd hate it too?
>pasted in links to my tweets—which theoretically they should not have had access to, as I had blocked them both on Twitter
How can you block anyone on Twitter and think it'll work? Just sign out and block's gone?
>No one likes being questioned
I think that sums up her attitude. Note I think her work is fine, but she's literally complaining about people discussing her work on other sites.
- sosuke 11y ago>she's literally complaining about people discussing her work on other sites Things like this don't become a problem until it is so easily organized. A bunch of tweets, FB posts, HN, reddit or other social comments are so scattered they don't have as much impact. The comments aren't visible on the the same page as the content. I'm going to have to think more about this. I've had this thought a couple of times now but I don't have a full picture of it yet.
- chatmasta 11y agoThey are not visible on the same page as the content unless you have news genius installed or have navigated to the news genius proxy for that page. You need to opt in to see the comments. God forbid people can post organized opinions you disagree with...