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"Not to piss people off, of course, but to provide a commentary layer that doesn't necessarily require the consent of the site owners." 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. |