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Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)

27 points by dzohrob 14y ago

dzohrob 14y ago
Hi HN, we'd love to get your feedback on the product we've been working on. Read a bit more about why we built it here: http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookmark http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookm... Happy to answer questions/get feedback here or via email -- team@lookmark.com. Thanks for checking it out.
rrival 14y ago
Looks cool - logo immediately reminds me of Valvoline's - http://www.valvoline.com/ http://www.valvoline.com/
jamesbritt 14y ago
"We use Facebook only for identification. No sharing without your permission (promise!)" While Lookmark may intend to follow all honorable practices, I'm curious if there are things Facebook can decide to do to subvert this. IOW, does Facebook track the use of an account for Lookmark identification? Are they tracking when a user signs in to Lookmark? Just how much does Facebook get to know about a user's use of Lookmark? Thanks, BTW, for offering a non-FB way to sign up.
- dzohrob 14y ago
  Thanks for checking it out. We don't ask for permission to post to your Facebook feed, so FB can't change anything there. Facebook definitely tracks the last time you used an app -- they expose it to you via the Application Settings tab (http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications). I don't know what else they're tracking behind the scenes though. That's why we offer a non-Facebook login option.
rohamg 14y ago
Well done Dave & team, looks and works awesome
- dzohrob 14y ago
  Thanks!
autophil 14y ago
Compliments on the domain name Lookmark. Clever. Did you have to buy if from someone, or was it available to register?
- dzohrob 14y ago
  Thanks! We bought it from its "original" owner. We had the .it domain but thought it was worth it go for the .com.
tobylane 14y ago
How well does this take in information from other similar things in Facebook? The Guardian is the paper I see most in my feed, does Lookmark take note of those?
- dzohrob 14y ago
  We're not scraping much data from other sites yet -- we wanted to focus on the core experience of "read what your friends are reading." We plan on taking advantage of more data sources in the future, though I don't think any Facebook Social Reader apps have open APIs.
nuttendorfer 14y ago
I'm surprised they let you delete your account, a rarity these days. Turned out none of my friends are interested in this so I deleted it.
dookie 14y ago
awesome service, now all i need is more friends
- rohamg 14y ago
  I think having public accounts or "topics" you can follow would be a great step to fill in the gap for folks without many (interesting enough) friends on the system
  - dzohrob 14y ago
    We're definitely going to implement something like this; thanks for the suggestion.
zooteo 14y ago
Looks awesome. I hope you succeed but the average person is going to be weary of accidentally auto-sharing that "article" they were reading on redtube.com
- amitm 14y ago
  Thanks! Automatic sharing is opt-in instead of opt-out, which means you would have to manually add a site like redtube. On top of that, we've prevented our software from ever touching certain sites, including search engines, webmail accounts, banking or financial institution pages, and adult websites. Check out our faq: http://lookmark.com/faq http://lookmark.com/faq
newtonapple 14y ago
Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/ http://www.readshout.com/.

27 points by dzohrob 14y ago

Hi HN, we'd love to get your feedback on the product we've been working on. Read a bit more about why we built it here: http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookmark http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookm... Happy to answer questions/get feedback here or via email -- team@lookmark.com. Thanks for checking it out.

rrival 14y ago

Looks cool - logo immediately reminds me of Valvoline's - http://www.valvoline.com/ http://www.valvoline.com/

jamesbritt 14y ago

"We use Facebook only for identification. No sharing without your permission (promise!)" While Lookmark may intend to follow all honorable practices, I'm curious if there are things Facebook can decide to do to subvert this. IOW, does Facebook track the use of an account for Lookmark identification? Are they tracking when a user signs in to Lookmark? Just how much does Facebook get to know about a user's use of Lookmark? Thanks, BTW, for offering a non-FB way to sign up.

dzohrob 14y ago
Thanks for checking it out. We don't ask for permission to post to your Facebook feed, so FB can't change anything there. Facebook definitely tracks the last time you used an app -- they expose it to you via the Application Settings tab (http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications). I don't know what else they're tracking behind the scenes though. That's why we offer a non-Facebook login option.

rohamg 14y ago

Well done Dave & team, looks and works awesome

dzohrob 14y ago
Thanks!

autophil 14y ago

Compliments on the domain name Lookmark. Clever. Did you have to buy if from someone, or was it available to register?

dzohrob 14y ago
Thanks! We bought it from its "original" owner. We had the .it domain but thought it was worth it go for the .com.

tobylane 14y ago

How well does this take in information from other similar things in Facebook? The Guardian is the paper I see most in my feed, does Lookmark take note of those?

dzohrob 14y ago
We're not scraping much data from other sites yet -- we wanted to focus on the core experience of "read what your friends are reading." We plan on taking advantage of more data sources in the future, though I don't think any Facebook Social Reader apps have open APIs.

nuttendorfer 14y ago

I'm surprised they let you delete your account, a rarity these days. Turned out none of my friends are interested in this so I deleted it.

dookie 14y ago

awesome service, now all i need is more friends

rohamg 14y ago
I think having public accounts or "topics" you can follow would be a great step to fill in the gap for folks without many (interesting enough) friends on the system
- dzohrob 14y ago
  We're definitely going to implement something like this; thanks for the suggestion.

zooteo 14y ago

Looks awesome. I hope you succeed but the average person is going to be weary of accidentally auto-sharing that "article" they were reading on redtube.com

amitm 14y ago
Thanks! Automatic sharing is opt-in instead of opt-out, which means you would have to manually add a site like redtube. On top of that, we've prevented our software from ever touching certain sites, including search engines, webmail accounts, banking or financial institution pages, and adult websites. Check out our faq: http://lookmark.com/faq http://lookmark.com/faq

newtonapple 14y ago

Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/ http://www.readshout.com/.