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> The blog post is put out by a company I've never heard of, and the credits listed on it include nobody who works on a browser… By the way, the Genius team is
by tedmiston 10y ago
> The blog post is put out by a company I've never heard of, and the credits listed on it include nobody who works on a browser…
By the way, the Genius team is backed by Marc Andreessen. While Genius and Hypothesis aren't formally related, the two annotation products are very similar just for different audiences. Tim Berners-Lee is even featured in the video at the end of the post.
This is kind of a crazy comment to have to make when the two biggest creators of the web browser support annotations. People who've worked on browsers absolutely have a vested interest in the web annotation standard.
https://hypothes.is/blog/a-letter-to-marc-andreessen-and-rap-genius/ https://hypothes.is/blog/a-letter-to-marc-andreessen-and-rap...