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by nickstenning
5182 days ago
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I'm not so sure. I don't think success (whatever that is) depends on a critical mass. In particular, while AnnotateIt has a bookmarklet (and soon browser plugin) use case, it's also possible for it to be useful to individual sites who can use AnnotateIt in the same way that they currently use Disqus. To address your second point --- well, yes, that's kind of the point. Not to piss people off, of course, but to provide a commentary layer that doesn't necessarily require the consent of the site owners. I don't think that should be seen as a downside of the software. |
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You mean like Hacker News, this very site we're conversing on?
Another problem in your top five is precisely that nobody thinks there's some sort of dearth of places to discuss things without the "consent" of the site owners. Third Voice at least preceded even Slashdot as a big site, let alone everything else, and they could make the argument with some faint trace of plausibility, but now the solution that should have won, did: There's all sorts of aggregators, forums, and more to the real point, communities everywhere. Want another one? Five minutes on any of dozens of free blog sites, free forum sites, free wiki sites, free aggregator sites, bam, another community. There is no missing commentary layer out of the control of the main site, the web has long since created it, refined it, and even moved through several generations of them.
This is a solution searching for a problem, which is a major part of the reason none of these attempts have ever reached critical mass.