Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

Re:Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and ... by jacknews on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:13PM (#8495987)

Wasn't there something called tribal fusion or something similar many years ago, amongst several others.

Personally, I can't see the point, for example, if I were a product site, I wouldn't some 3rd party able to spew messages all over it, so at best, getting sites to pay you is probably not a business model.

But good luck anyway.

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Re:Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and ... by jacknews on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:52PM (#8496499)

Actually, I think I'm referring to ThirdVoice, which was shut down due to lack of success, and websites didn't like it because it "externalized discussions" according to the wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

Also there are many other web annotation systems described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation and the see-also section shows several failures.

As I said, I personally don't think this is a good idea, I can't see the point, but best of luck in any case, I guess at least some others are finding it useful.

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Re:Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and ... by abhoopathy on Thursday October 23, 2014 @08:06AM (#8497704)

"No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun \ It's never what you do, but how it's done"

- Nas

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Re:Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and ... by jacknews on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:14PM (#8501651)

Indeed, but what is different about your take on this idea that has failed many times in the past, apart from slick UI?

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