Problems With ThirdVoice
from the some-people-are-so-picky dept
Apparently, not everyone thinks ThirdVoice is a very cool technology. It seems that people are upset that others can more or less "write" on their web page. I think they may have a reasonable argument, though not necessarily a legal one.
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I see 2 big problems for T.V.
Secondly, couldn't you argue that this is a violation of copyright, akin to people building sites that are nothing but frames displaying other sites' content? There was a lawsuit over that, and IIRC, the people doing the bogus linking lost. Basically, the argument would be that this service is piggybacking on the content of the annotated sites to the point where it is unreasonable. "Unreasonable" is a term you'd have to prove in court, but it's a starting point.
Jon Acheson
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Re: I see 2 big problems for T.V.
I definitely do see where Third Voice might be interesting for me to annotate things to a web page for my own use.. of course then I take it a step further and ask what if I want to share those annotations with some friends? Not quite sure how one deals with something like that.
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Re: I see 2 big problems for T.V.
- identifying which part of which page they're talking about.
- finding all the things other folk have said about any given page.
Note that T.V don't claim to be bringing you the content of the site: only the things other visitors have said.As to clutter, yes I'm sure the public notes will soon be dominated by total drivel, spam, etc. Just like /. ;^>
However, their mechanism (I visited their web site and FAQ) does provide for a third kind of note, between private (held by your T.V installation and accessible to no-one else) and public notes: group notes. These appear to allow for immense flexibility in selecting who can see which notes: doubtless, with a little care, they can be used to provide flexible filtering of which notes I see on a site. Public notes could be totally ignorable without the system being useless.
Eddy.
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Re: I see 2 big problems for T.V.
It is very easy to turn the thing off and not look at it if you don't want. It's just another layer of communications media.
I say, go forth and evolve, Web. This could be part of the evolution.
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whatever happened to annotations ...
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Re: whatever happened to annotations ...
For another take on annotating web pages take a look at http://www.crit.org/.
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What happend with tv?
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