Comments on: IDEA #29 – Your Vyous (comments) on Any Webpage

By: Thamil Selvan P

Thamil Selvan P — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:17:00 +0000

There was a company ThirdVoice.com who used to do this but died during the dot com bust. http://web.archive.org/web/19991013034242/http://thirdvoice.com/

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By: Marc Meyer

Marc Meyer — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:54:52 +0000

Came across this discussion quite late, but I think Stickis, our product has the promise to fulfill much of your vision. Stickis introduces a meta-web layer over all pages for any user, which it fills with content/rich commentary from users you opt into.
We’re still in the initial stages of how you opt into (very important so this doesn’t become a third-voice like graffiti vehicle) others’ information, as for now the model is strictly “add a friend” to see what they say anywhere on the web.

Our roadmap includes creating groups which one will be able to sign up for to see anyone’s annotation in groups one belongs to, anywhere on the web.

By: Steve Poland

Steve Poland — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:38:46 +0000

Somewhat duplicate of initial idea, but some additional details: I'd like to know who from my network has commented on a particular post. If I'm reading a post, or visiting a website -- I'd really love to see what my friends/family/colleagues and/or those I admire, have to say about it -- those comments should be highlighted so I can quickly scan them. Some features:

Every page of every site is commentable
friend/network comments are highlighted; +/- comments; view +/- comments by your friends/network
display blogs/webpages linking to that page
view last people to visit that page; friends/network; by location, sex, age, marital status.
votes: must read, ok, waste (why is it a waste? or recommend alternate)
activity of +'s of a page get it ranked
comments also ranked and appear on homepage of our site (so people can view the top comments and view the article that the comment was placed on

By: nicolas dengler

nicolas dengler — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:09:31 +0000

by coComment we already have a first approach for this. We call it meta-conversation. It’s the ability to comment on any website. We open an internal window on the website where you can add you comment. Check it out at wwww.cocomment.com, click the “discuss this page” on the top left. You can have the same functionality if you add the firefox extension or the bookmarklet. Other people can then see your comments on any website and participate to these conversations if they also use the service. An interesting thing id also the fact that you can then display these comments on your blog via the comment-widget. It’s the idea of “filtering” the web and have conversations everywhere.

We did not really promote this idea so far because we’re working on a new version of it. We definitely think this will be something great and we want to make it more community oriented. We are adding the group approach to the service so that it’s going to be easier to share conversations (on blogs, forums, flickr… or any website) with your buddies or any interested person. We really think this is going to be really great; in a sense, it will be another way to share interesting links and have a conversation on them directly in the context. We also think that it’s important to have different levels, being able to have different conversations on the same page, some of them being “private” (only for group members) and a main public one.

Basically our approach it to support conversations where they exists (help you to track and share them), and give you the choice to create conversations where they don’t exist (enabler). I hope this will be the right answer to your question

By: Max

Max — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:44:50 +0000

That’s the great article, couple years ago a spellchecker tools were available on the net: if you have found a mistype or missed comma you were free to highlight the text and press CTRL+T to send a fragment to the website editors, that helped make content clearer.

I think same ide might be implemented with comments — found something — highlight+comment and then share with friends see what others are saying etc.

Thanks for a great article.

By: Roman

Roman — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:26:54 +0000

A couple of days ago I found this: http://www.zpeech.com
Is this what you kindof had in mind? I’m toying with the idea of building a similar service myself, including more multimedia-features etc.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:05:56 +0000

Forget the comments site, you should start damienricefanclub.com.

What if instead of a single Vyous page for every article, there would be a single Vyous page for every *topic*? The page would be dynamically created from articles, blog posts, comments, wikipedia entries, etc..

For example, there would be a Vyous page for “Damien Rice”. The page would be laid out like a newspaper (i.e. nytimes.com) – articles from Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stones, a blog post from a top music blogger, and the wikipedia entry for Damien Rice. These pages would be automatically created once enough buzz is generated around a topic. Think techmeme on steroids.

Users could comment on any of the articles or blogs, or post a comment on the whole thing. Now let’s say you visited Pitchfork. The plug-in would list Vyous comments from both the individual article, the Vyous comments from the Vyous page, and links to any of the sites/blogs/wikipedia entries that used on the Vyous page.

By: rulepark

rulepark — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:01:22 +0000

I think the most important thing is like this. EVERY and ANY article that you came across can be comment and be discuss among the readers. Also make sure that, a track record for the user so that user can trace back the comments.

You can’t make it as a website. More like a feed and a pluggin to a browser. Or, something like “RIGHT CLICK to comment “.

It would be really great to see others reacting to it.

Always, next thing I would consider is the whole business model of this technology. How do we earn money from it? To be practically maintaining the service, there should be money coming in. Any suggestion? Any points? Any ways?

By: Chris Keller

Chris Keller — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:29:32 +0000

Hey Steve, one service that could already technically do this in an interesting way was one that was covered on TechCrunch a while back. It basically let you have discussions on any web page (and the same or a different company let you put sticky notes over the webpage). The trick was that while you were looking at the same web page, it was using a unique URL on their domain (i.e. http://www.hiddencomments.com/http://www.techquilashots.com/steves post about comment)

You should ask Mike A. about that one…