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I am a long time reader of HN. I was planning to introduce a site that we are working some time in the coming month and get HN feedback. But based on the discu
by zenravs 13y ago
I am a long time reader of HN. I was planning to introduce a site that we are working some time in the coming month and get HN feedback. But based on the discussion in this thread, I believe this will be a good time to talk about it. The URL for the site is www.reedwith.us and is currently in beta.
This is a site where you can upload any professional content like a video, a pdf or a presentation using your LinkedIn user name and password and discuss. To serve the professional community needs, in the topic and discussion sections physical, mathematical and chemical equations and code snippets can be included.
For example, if you type "perceptual" in the search bar, Perceptual grouping presentation will be shown as a result. You can look at the presentation. If you scroll down on the page you will see the Topic and Discussion sections. There, you will see code snippets, equations etc. You can start a new topic or participate in the discussion. You can also form groups and discuss privately with members of your team.
We are very interested in hosting the videos that were deleted by blip.tv. In addition, you can upload any professional content that you would to like share with public or a private group.
It is still a work in progress and I would be very happy to hear from you through this site or using the contact us form located in http://reedwith.us/contact.html http://reedwith.us/contact.html
- krapp 13y agoThat looks nice, and useful, but giving you access to my linkedin account is a no-go. I get enough spam from it as it is.
- zenravs 13y agoThanks for your feedback. We are using LinkedIn authentication, to ensure that the content and discussion in the site will be professional. We do not intend to send any unnecessary email to any of our users. I hate getting spam and I do not want to spam my users. We have set up the site, so that users have to opt-in for us to send any news-letter etc. They can choose to receive news-letter by going to their 'Settings' page. When users form private groups, groups members will be notified via email. This is the only occasion when we send email to users. Also, you do not have to login to view the content or read the discussion. However, you need to login to upload content, participate in discussion, form private groups etc.