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Re: Blerp Gives Web Annotations Another Try

Anand — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:37:26 -0000

Mark my words..This one is the so-called Google killer...Not facebook, not that twitter thing..

Re: Blerp Gives Web Annotations Another Try

Michael Bauser — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:28:06 -0000

I appreciate that you're reading the feedback, but I submit to you "not obvious at first glance" is a problem. You might want to make a real list of features easier for people to find.

Does Blerp let users block the public notations and only read notations from friends? Because that would be an important feature to people (like me) who realize most public notations are crap.

Re: Blerp Gives Web Annotations Another Try

Steve — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:15 -0000

I'm the CEO of Blerp, and I read your feedback.

Actually, Blerp allows you to form private groups. It's not obvious at first glance, but you'll see that if you create a discussion, you can do the following:

Public - anyone can view

Friends - only my friends can view

Private - no one can view except me

Steve

Re: Blerp Gives Web Annotations Another Try

adam — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:16:40 -0000

blerp doesn't work on Ning.com social sites
just so you know

Re: Blerp Gives Web Annotations Another Try

Michael Bauser — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:53:40 -0000

I've been saying this since ThirdVoice: Group-based annotation is the way to go. Free-for-all annotations turn into spam- and flame-fests that nobody wants to read. Being able to filter to only annotations from trusted uers? That could be useful.

(By "trusted users" I mean either "group of my friends" or "curated group of experts." If I'm reading a page about astronomy, for example, my friends' comments are probably useless. Being able to select a group of astronomers' annotations would be useful.)

Unfortunately, I'm 4 clicks into Blerp's website, and it doesn't look like it does anything that useful. Better luck next startup, I guess.