Genius Beta - Annotate the Internet

@marckohlbrugge hahaha that's awesome, this could work wonders for schools and across education

@marckohlbrugge YOUR comment was actually what inspired this! thanks dogg

@marckohlbrugge @mahbodmoghadam is that true?

@rrhoover Thanks! This definitely wasn't the plan from the beginning. But we were always obsessed with the notion of web annotation, primarily in the form of our love affair with Google Reader. I know Google Reader nostalgia has reached a Tickle me Elmo level of meme, but still.. it was a great product! And what made it so great was you could say what you wanted to say about the EXACT PART OF THING that was funny or weird or whatever. We were so obsessed we built a Google Reader clone called reader2000.com (which you can use and it's pretty cool!) Anyway, how cool would Google Reader be if, in addition to a feed, it followed you around the Internet and you could always see what your friends / famous people were saying about stuff?

@dumbnamenumbers @mmmmmnmmmnmmn @rrhoover Can you imagine what PH will looks like once Genius comments will start to pop all over the place :)

@dumbnamenumbers @johnosborne Tom spoke about this at the Code Genius event in February in Brooklyn -

@dumbnamenumbers @sammybauch Nice. Thanks much.

@anderson760 We take a long view of this stuff. We're trying to build a indispensable resource about songs (we like to think of it as a "museum of songs"), which means having accurate and well-formatted lyrics but also annotations from fans and artists, information on the song/production as a whole, etc. We believe that in 100 years when you're listening to a song, you'll be experiencing some information that grew out of the Genius product and community The Google thing is funny. If you search, for example, for "eminem my name is lyrics," you get the Google onebox result before the Genius result. But if you click into the Genius result, you get the whole backstory on the song from Eminem himself, as well as a bunch of great annotations from the community. We would obviously like to be the default first result for every query for which our pages are the best result. But we're not sweating it too much: the arc of SERP ranking is long and it bends toward justice!

@corleyh Thanks! I keep trying to get Ilan to change his to something equally funny but more legible, but, you know, "Ilaners gonna Ilan"..

@dumbnamenumbers @gdelaserre giving that option would defeat the purpose of the whole thing...

@dumbnamenumbers @mahbodmoghadam or give it another entirely new purpose :) ok...i guess that means no

@dumbnamenumbers @gdelaserre @mahbodmoghadam I don't think it necessarily would. Some pages are going to get totally swamped by annotations that are... let's just say... not so genius ;) It would be nice therefore to be able to share and follow specific ones.