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Web document annotation isn't a new idea - I worked on a product called Reframe It 5 years ago doing something similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1swp-2Q
by bri3d 14y ago
Web document annotation isn't a new idea - I worked on a product called Reframe It 5 years ago doing something similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1swp-2QeMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1swp-2QeMI , and we weren't even close to the first to market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation .
Just like everything else, there's room for more than one player in a market - why should they be worried about competing with RapGenius?
- mmastrac 14y agoInteresting - I was working on DotSpots around the same time. ReframeIt was one of the people we figured were in the same space. I've also hoped that web annotation will take off one day, but it seems fated to sputter every time.
- bri3d 14y agoWe sure were! Fun to see someone we considered a competitor all those years ago on HN also. I think Rap Genius are on the right track: hosted specific-document annotation seems like a good method to develop a web-annotation technology while still making money at the same time. We had a lot of interest from specific-document research organizations like lawyers and journalists, but the "annotate the whole web" pitch didn't seem to go over too well.