Erik Torenberg

Genius Beta - Annotate the Internet

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jcsnv
I've been waiting for the chrome extension for a while, glad you finally launched one! It'll be interesting to see how content on Wikipedia gets annotated. How will Genius stay on top of quality control for such content? EDIT: Someone is already exploiting this: dropbox.com/s/h3wxiaxyf8qzx7d/Screenshot%202015-04-08%2013.31.01.png How will you prevent this from happening in the future? Also, links aren't clickable (ie: Hackernews) if they're highlighted. Overall, great job!
Mahbod Moghadam
Is it true that the product is called "Genius Beta" because the founders of Genius are extreme beta males? (that's what I heard..)
Jason Hitchcock
How does this system handle trolls and highly partisan content? I can imagine content people disagree with getting covered with nasty comments that are upvoted by supporters.
Mahbod Moghadam
@jasonhitchcock I have spent the past year being a troll on Genius - and TRUST ME - they hunt you down really quick!!
Miles Burke
AMA: 1. what stops the browser makers taking your idea and building it in to their product and starving you of reach? 2. Will there be an opt out mechanism for site owners who don't want comments on their sites?
Larry
@dumbnamenumbers Why isn't there a science genius?
orliesaurus
Needs more upvotes, this is great I was looking for something like this the other day...The universe has some weird ways of working its magic on us!
Malcolm Ocean
This is probably not worth caring about right now, but I thought I'd give the very specific feedback that when wearing blue-blocker glasses for melatonin purposes, the yellow highlights on white background are totally invisible. The glasses basically zero out the blue channel of RGB, making #FFFF00 and #FFFFFF look identical.
Aaron Gibralter
Seems like cross-domain security issues could be problematic?
root shadow
can't make it work
Mouyyad Abdulhadi
How do you think adding annotations will impact SEO?