Awesome Highlighter (YC summer 08)

Lets test it:<p><a href="http://awurl.com/pspxuq96279" rel="nofollow">http://awurl.com/pspxuq96279</a>

Nice tool.<p>As I understand from Techcrunch, the revenue stream would come from selling their "awesome highlighter" product to media sites. The incentives for media sites to buy it?<p>- nice feature for their users to share highlights<p>- possibility to survey what their users find interesting<p>I believe there is some revenue potential in this. It just strikes me how simple business ideas can be. Once again, value is the key, not complexity.

And on testing it, it does not even work. I tried yahoo.com and it keeps popping up this message box telling me there is a limit of 2000 characters, when I'm selecting small paragraphs. So YC funded a startup with an idea that has been tried many times over and with a product that just does not work? Hmm, somebodies gonna lose $10.000. Not saying who, but somebody....

Congratulation to hooande. I remember when he mentioned it <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174900" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174900</a><p>Awesome Highlighter uses frames to view other websites and some websites prevent their pages to be viewed in someone else's frameset (if (top != self) top.location.href = 'example.com'). There is no way I know of to disable this and need to respect their wish not be viewed in frameset.

I might be wrong, but I seem to remember seeing this same idea sometime in the web 1.0 bubble. It failed then, and since then, there have been several attempts to revive this very same business, and it fails each time. So why did YC go and fund a business that just does not seem to work?

Check out:<p><a href="http://blog.linebuzz.com/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.linebuzz.com/</a><p>They do the same thing without a plugin/bookmarklet.<p>I dunno about most folks, but I have to have some pretty serious pain and/or desire to add clutter to my browser.

How does this differ significantly from Third Voice? <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/04/42803" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/04/42803</a>

I love the name. It's simple, memorable, and instantly identifies what the site does. A very refreshing change from the plague of generic Web 2.0-ish non-word names.

The bookmarklet does not work for me in Safari 3.1.1 The toolbar shows up and then disappears. Has anyone else tried it in Safari?

They should definitely set cursor:pointer on the color selector for the ffox plugin.