[gobengo]

APIs can shut down, bummer. But it's more of a bummer to never use them in the first place.

It'd be rad if you could integrate with Genius' API in such a way that if they ever shut it down, or you want to switch to another annotation service for any reason, you would only have to point to another annotation provider instead of rewriting all the syntax/semantics of the integration.

Sound cool? Get involved with:

* W3C Web Annotation WG: http://www.w3.org/annotation/

* OpenAnnotation Ontology: http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/

* W3C Social WG and Vocabulary: http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-activitystreams-vocabulary-2015...

[dwhly]

Thanks for this comment Ben! +1000

Feel free to try an alternative, open annotation api, like ours: api.hypothes.is

[devbug]

Man, is Hypothesis awesome. I'm bumping into it more and more, and lovin' it more and more everytime.

What kind of tech stack do you run? Last time I check it was mostly Javascript (ugh).

[Ryel]

Whoa, this is cool. Do you have a live demo of this working on videos/images?

[hellameta]

dwhly - this is awesome. I had no idea such a thing existed!