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How Hypothes.is is going to fix online Identity and Reputation

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Re: How Hypothes.is is going to fix online Identity and Reputation

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worth reading to the end just for this gem:

Disclosure: My really good friend Randall Leeds is building Hypothes.is as the technical co-founder. This happened after RWW started covering founder Dan Whaley's efforts to create an annotation system for the whole Web. It's a complete coincidence. Still, I admit that this may have an impact on my reporting. But hey, at least my fund isn't investing in it.

Re: How Hypothes.is is going to fix online Identity and Reputation

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post #2

Thanks, zerostar07! If you're interesting in helping out, watch https://github.com/hypothesis or subscribe to our dev list with dev+subscribe@list.hypothes.is

I should add we have a low-volume list for outgoing announcements if you'd rather just hear those: announce+subscribe@list.hypothes.is

Re: How Hypothes.is is going to fix online Identity and Reputation

#5

worth reading to the end just for this gem: Disclosure: My really good friend Randall Leeds is building Hypothes.is as the technical co-founder. This happened after RWW started covering founder Dan Whaley's efforts to create an annotation system for the whole Web. It's a complete coincidence. Still, I admit that this may have an impact on my reporting. But hey, at least my fund isn't investing in it.

;^)

Re: How Hypothes.is is going to fix online Identity and Reputation

#8

worth reading to the end just for this gem: Disclosure: My really good friend Randall Leeds is building Hypothes.is as the technical co-founder. This happened after RWW started covering founder Dan Whaley's efforts to create an annotation system for the whole Web. It's a complete coincidence. Still, I admit that this may have an impact on my reporting. But hey, at least my fund isn't investing in it.

That is interesting. I'm glad you posted it because I'm done reading these breathless blog posts, so obviously desparate for page views. Four years ago, I still read things like Gigaom, TC, and RWW, etc., but I've found they offer nothing of value beyond the HN comment threads.

Re: How Hypothes.is is going to fix online Identity and Reputation

#9
post #6

Very excited to see this move forward. Look at this project and compare it to something like diaspora, and you see some significant differences which give hope that this can achieve traction, notably the extensive, deep market research done up front.

Have you ever looked at the number of Diaspora-like (AKA distributed/ federated) social networking projects?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

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