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Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dzohrob on Thursday September 20, 2012 @02:48PM (#4550051)
Hi HN, we'd love to get your feedback on the product we've been working on. Read a bit more about why we built it here: http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookm...

Happy to answer questions/get feedback here or via email -- [email protected]. Thanks for checking it out.

Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by jamesbritt on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:38PM (#4550286)
"We use Facebook only for identification. No sharing without your permission (promise!)"

While Lookmark may intend to follow all honorable practices, I'm curious if there are things Facebook can decide to do to subvert this.

IOW, does Facebook track the use of an account for Lookmark identification? Are they tracking when a user signs in to Lookmark?

Just how much does Facebook get to know about a user's use of Lookmark?

Thanks, BTW, for offering a non-FB way to sign up.

Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dzohrob on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:47PM (#4550324)
Thanks for checking it out.

We don't ask for permission to post to your Facebook feed, so FB can't change anything there. Facebook definitely tracks the last time you used an app -- they expose it to you via the Application Settings tab (http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications). I don't know what else they're tracking behind the scenes though. That's why we offer a non-Facebook login option.

Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by zooteo on Thursday September 20, 2012 @05:03PM (#4550673)
Looks awesome. I hope you succeed but the average person is going to be weary of accidentally auto-sharing that "article" they were reading on redtube.com
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by amitm on Thursday September 20, 2012 @05:07PM (#4550690)
Thanks! Automatic sharing is opt-in instead of opt-out, which means you would have to manually add a site like redtube. On top of that, we've prevented our software from ever touching certain sites, including search engines, webmail accounts, banking or financial institution pages, and adult websites.

Check out our faq: http://lookmark.com/faq

Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by rrival on Thursday September 20, 2012 @03:05PM (#4550147)
Looks cool - logo immediately reminds me of Valvoline's - http://www.valvoline.com/
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by rohamg on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:25PM (#4550496)
Well done Dave & team, looks and works awesome
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dzohrob on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:46PM (#4550590)
Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by tobylane on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:33PM (#4550535)
How well does this take in information from other similar things in Facebook? The Guardian is the paper I see most in my feed, does Lookmark take note of those?
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dzohrob on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:46PM (#4550588)
We're not scraping much data from other sites yet -- we wanted to focus on the core experience of "read what your friends are reading." We plan on taking advantage of more data sources in the future, though I don't think any Facebook Social Reader apps have open APIs.
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by nuttendorfer on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:53PM (#4550613)
I'm surprised they let you delete your account, a rarity these days. Turned out none of my friends are interested in this so I deleted it.
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by autophil on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:31PM (#4550522)
Compliments on the domain name Lookmark. Clever. Did you have to buy if from someone, or was it available to register?
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dzohrob on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:43PM (#4550576)
Thanks! We bought it from its "original" owner. We had the .it domain but thought it was worth it go for the .com.
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by newtonapple on Thursday September 20, 2012 @06:04PM (#4550989)
Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/.
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dookie on Thursday September 20, 2012 @04:59PM (#4550640)
awesome service, now all i need is more friends
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by rohamg on Thursday September 20, 2012 @05:24PM (#4550790)
I think having public accounts or "topics" you can follow would be a great step to fill in the gap for folks without many (interesting enough) friends on the system
Re:Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (fo... by dzohrob on Thursday September 20, 2012 @05:31PM (#4550837)
We're definitely going to implement something like this; thanks for the suggestion.