Comments on: IReader Uses Semantic Analysis to Summarize Linked Pages

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:35:48 +0000

Thanks for the feed back, we need it to find the best way to make this
technology useful and not annoying. We are using your feedback to
this end.

Thanks,

Henry

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:22:01 +0000

I’d like to see a really good semantic analysis tool that you could pump a blog post through and it would automatically come up with tags / keywords.

There probably is one, I’m just ignorant about it.

By: Gavin Quinn

Gavin Quinn — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:00:29 +0000

Am I the only one getting tired of naming convention rip-offs? Every new web site either starts with i, my, or ends in r.

iReader, iRooster, i-…
mySpace, my-xxx

flickR,mappR,zoomR

If everyone is so creative with these new sites, why can’t they think up an original name?

By: Graeme Thickins

Graeme Thickins — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:43:17 +0000

Software Man — yeah, iReader can be annoying if you don’t adjust it to your needs. You can toggle it on and off by just right-clicking. And you can set sensitivity by going into tools/iReader or Options/iReader, entering how many milliseconds to wait before showing the preview window. So, if you really want to, you can set it to a second, or maybe several seconds, so you get fewer accidental popups of the window. I do some work for this company, and one of the developers told me they’ll soon have a control panel with slider controls instead of numeric input.

By: No man is an island

No man is an island — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:05:53 +0000

iReader…

Just read about iReader on Techcrunch and first i thought it would work similar to snap.com’s website picture preview. Eager to get it working i hit the download and it is in fact a firefox plugin.
Check it out for yourself. It is quite nice…….

By: Software Man

Software Man — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:17:06 +0000

I have tried the iReader software and it’s VERY annoying. Mike, please hold a poll about what your users think about page previews - do they consider them useful, or annoying? I would be surprised if more than 5% of the users like them.

By: David Orban

David Orban — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:12:39 +0000

The best similar tool that I have come accross is Clearforest Gnosis that has a rich scheme to classify the type of text, and loads its classification in the sidebar.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:00:46 +0000

This inspired me to write a blog post:

“link previews (like snap) are completely backwards”
http://bla.st/site/blog/65/

To summarise: “This functionality should be built into the browser, not individual web pages.”

By: PXLated

PXLated — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:43:22 +0000

I found it totally annoying and less than helpful on most links I tried and it really needs to discriminate links, it will try to pop a summary on every link even nav, header and other page elements. The mouse-over is a problem as usual, would be better if it just added a symbol one could click when wanting a summary. You can turn it off but at this point I found it easier to just uninstall, didn’t think it was ready for prime time.

By: Kevin Fischer

Kevin Fischer — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:37:51 +0000

I’m delighted to see technology like this become practical. Once the semantic Web is everywhere, we have the Web 3.0.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3

Unless Larry Page was serious about the claim that AI is “not as far off as people think” in which case the singularity will cause the Web 3.0 to be irrelevant.
http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-6160372.html