Sunday, January 21, 2007

Lifehacker Attempt #1

This post is part of my ongoing marketing experiment.

It took me a few days (okay, longer) to realize that Rafe wasn't going to give JKN any publicity. So I did some research and identified Lifehacker as a popular blog. So I sent them an email... and got nothing.

FromYaakov Sash
DateSunday, January 21, 2007 11:27 AM ET
ToLifehacker (website)
SubjectJumpKnowledge Webpage Annotator - add comments inside any web page
Message

Dear Editor,

JumpKnowledge is a free web-based snapshot and annotation tool and is located at http://www.jkn.com/

For fun, I annotated a page from your site, specifically a review of Scrapbook which I wanted to comment on (but couldn't because registration seems to be invite only.)
http://jkn.com/View?j=767191.860930724719

Features:

  • immediate - add comments to any web page right now. Registration is not required.
  • multi-page - you can add comments to multiple web pages
  • in vivo - your comments are inserted between words, so nothing of the original page is obscured and your comments can be read in context.
  • permanent - even if the web page changes, your comments will be shown with the web page as it looked when you created the Annotation.
  • email the web page with your comments to you friends and colleagues with your own email program
  • blog - critique other sites and link the Annotation back to your own site or blog.
  • keep your ducks in a row - you control the order of how people will read your comments within the Annotation.

Regards,

Yaakov Sash
Founder

1 comments:

Philippe Rathe said...

I followed the link to see your annotation on the Lifehacker post about ScrapBook. I would have like to try to comment over your comments to see if it was possible, but it was not.

It would be nice if we could see what others have comment over that same page, if it were the case (like Fleck do) and also to highlight text as an informal comment as somewhat is simply important to note.

Otherwise, good work! I wish you a lot of success with jkn.