Lookmark
Consumer and social
social reading
SHOW HN2012
27points
17comments
#783of 1,677 in 2012
Top 47%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.
Idea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Looks awesome and works well
From 2 comments
Well done Dave & team, looks and works awesome
rohamg on HNawesome service, now all i need is more friends
dookie on HN
Objections
Few friends may be interested, limiting usefulness
From 2 comments
I'm surprised they let you delete your account, a rarity these days. Turned out none of my friends are interested in this so I deleted it.
nuttendorfer on HNawesome service, now all i need is more friends
dookie on HN
Privacy concerns about Facebook tracking and accidental sharing
From 2 comments
"We use Facebook only for identification. No sharing without your permission (promise!)" While Lookmark may intend to follow all honorable practices, I'm curious if there are…
jamesbritt on HNLooks awesome. I hope you succeed but the average person is going to be weary of accidentally auto-sharing that "article" they were reading on redtube.com
zooteo on HN
Requests
Public accounts or topics to follow
From 1 comment
I think having public accounts or "topics" you can follow would be a great step to fill in the gap for folks without many (interesting enough) friends on the system
rohamg on HN
Support for more data sources such as news sites
From 2 comments
How well does this take in information from other similar things in Facebook? The Guardian is the paper I see most in my feed, does Lookmark take note of those?
tobylane on HNWe're not scraping much data from other sites yet -- we wanted to focus on the core experience of "read what your friends are reading." We plan on taking advantage of more data…
dzohrob on HN
Questions
Does Facebook track use of Lookmark sign-ins?
From 2 comments
"We use Facebook only for identification. No sharing without your permission (promise!)" While Lookmark may intend to follow all honorable practices, I'm curious if there are…
jamesbritt on HNThanks for checking it out. We don't ask for permission to post to your Facebook feed, so FB can't change anything there. Facebook definitely tracks the last time you used an app…
dzohrob on HN
Alternatives named
ReadShout
From 1 comment
Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/.
newtonapple on HN