Tynt: What's being copied from your website right now?

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Post by epall » Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 11:34 PM UTC

Tynt: What's being copied from your website right now?
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Post by martey » Sun, Feb 22, 2009, 11:51 PM UTC

From their about page: Tracer inserts a java script tag into the html code of your website to non-invasively track users interactions with your website content. The only change the user sees is when copied content is pasted into an email, blog or website, we automatically add a link back to the originating site at the end of the content.

What happens if the user just deletes the link, as I have with the above quote?

Re: Tynt: What's being copied from your website right now?

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Post by nirmal » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 12:10 AM UTC

martey wrote: post #2

From their about page: Tracer inserts a java script tag into the html code of your website to non-invasively track users interactions with your website content. The only change the user sees is when copied content is pasted into an email, blog or website, we automatically add a link back to the originating site at the end of the content. What happens if the user just deletes the link, as I have with the above quote?

Would it be a good idea to combine link placement, reporting back to the server on every highlight and searching for the content later be a good combination?

Re: Tynt: What's being copied from your website right now?

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Post by westside1506 » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 12:28 AM UTC

Interesting concept, but this is not designed to find where your content has been copied onto other sites/blogs. That would be an cool service.

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Post by jonursenbach » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 12:31 AM UTC

westside1506 wrote: post #4

Interesting concept, but this is not designed to find where your content has been copied onto other sites/blogs. That would be an cool service.

That service is called Google.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 12:48 AM UTC

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Post by PStamatiou » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 1:34 AM UTC

i use http://copygator.com but am interesting in how tynt solution differs

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Post by BigCanOfTuna » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 1:36 AM UTC

Great idea! Now we can finally, with accuracy, determine what portion of the internet population uses the click-drag technique when reading long blog posts. Yeah!

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Post by Guatejon » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 1:39 AM UTC

These guys are not fans http://www.ericlander.com/324.html

Re: Tynt: What's being copied from your website right now?

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Post by tsally » Mon, Feb 23, 2009, 1:42 AM UTC

martey wrote: post #2

From their about page: Tracer inserts a java script tag into the html code of your website to non-invasively track users interactions with your website content. The only change the user sees is when copied content is pasted into an email, blog or website, we automatically add a link back to the originating site at the end of the content. What happens if the user just deletes the link, as I have with the above quote?

I'm pretty sure this service is not meant for the technically inclined. If someone who is technically inclined was worried about this, they would understand that they could use Google and/or a custom web crawler that searched over a subset of sites you cared about[1].

[1]After all, if someone copies your work and no once sees it, who really cares? The scope of your web crawler must be limited somehow. You could simply have it check up on your competition and/or popular links on news aggregating sites for categories related to your business. For example, if I was starting a technology blog, I could write up a Python crawler in about 30 minutes that parsed through blog articles on other popular tech blogs with related tags.