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ICQ had a feature for writing on websites, and even chatting with others visiting the same webpage. That was around 1998. It didn't work out, despite the pene
by zhte415 12y ago
ICQ had a feature for writing on websites, and even chatting with others visiting the same webpage. That was around 1998. It didn't work out, despite the penetration of ICQ at the time.
- agumonkey 12y agoI wouldn't underestimate the power of time. Maybe at the time the web wasn't about information as much as today. Maybe MS implementation will be smoother and more integrated. Maybe people minds have changed. So many things died in the past only to be reincarnated slightly differently now they can but seen under the right light.
- davidgerard 12y agoWebsite annotating is a feature people keep reinventing every few years. (e.g. rbutr as the most recent example, but there have been several before.) It usually founders on (2) getting sued by people who don't like the annotations on their website (1) no way to actually monetise this.
- agumonkey 12y agoIt's an in-browser tool, not a product. Maybe MS plan to analyse cloud stored annotations but I don't think they want to make money out of it. And how legal is it for a website author to say anything about what I do when I'm visiting it ? I can store the URL and a little doodle in a file, can they sue me for doing this ?
- davidgerard 12y agoIt isn't (slam-dunk under CDA section 230), but that never stopped a pissed-off crank from bringing a harassing case. Yeah, that's unlikely to affect Microsoft.
- mkr-hn 12y agoThey don't have to win the suit. They only have to run the target out of money.