Comments on: Fleck Headed To The Deadpool Because Nobody Wants to Annotate The Web

By: Exit reframe it « Picking Up Sticks

Exit reframe it « Picking Up Sticks — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:43:09 +0000

[...] The idea of having all my notes attached directly to the webpages they refer to was irresistable. So irresistable that I got overexited about ReframeIt. To make a long, painful story short – ReframeIt was a mistake. Good riddance to it. Now that I’ve uninstalled it my computer is running at its usual just above sloth speed. And I really did love annotating the webpages that I was reading, that is, until all my notes disappeared – this mystery is ongoing. And then there is the level of uncertainty with having all my notes on third party applications. I’m screwed if they fold, as has been the case with web annotation appliations in the past. [...]

By: connectionfailure

connectionfailure — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:29:03 +0000

Fleck may be buggy or whatever (lots of sites are) but annotation and social bookmarking are not the same thing.
JumpKnowledge http://info.jkn.com/ seems to have temporarily disappeared, and is trying to reinvent itself.
I used JumpKnowledge a few times, and sent the link to people, who said ‘hey what were those funny lines in yellow, did you write that?’ they didnt get it at all, and they didnt sign up and use it themselves. Thus it did not reach critical mass. It’s all my fault. Sorry.

By: William Patrick Wend » Weekly Reader

William Patrick Wend » Weekly Reader — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:51:27 +0000

[...] to TechCrunch, Fleck, previously blogged about, is up for sale. I never did find a good use for it… [...]

By: shfx

shfx — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:14:07 +0000

Great, another Delicious… Anyway, good luck

By: Piotr

Piotr — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:57:08 +0000

Hell of a reply. Kudos.

By: Fleck.com Is For Sale | FuckedStartups

Fleck.com Is For Sale | FuckedStartups — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:35:19 +0000

[...] by TechCrunch last week – here … Fleck is a Dutch company founded by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive, the [...]

By: Mushon

Mushon — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:37:03 +0000

If no one wants to buy the company, what will happen to the user data? Is it exportable? Can it be used in another annotating system?

It seems like the proprietary lock-in syndrome is one of the caveats the social annotation tools are suffering from. I would love to know what the Flecks have to say about that.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:24:03 +0000

just checked out fleck. it is full of dead links and bugs. I cannot believe anyone would want to buy this crap

By: Sameer

Sameer — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:06:29 +0000

So true. Keep up the good work.

By: Fleck – What the Heck, Going Bust | Startup Wire

Fleck – What the Heck, Going Bust | Startup Wire — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:23:21 +0000

[...] for a new owner! The founders organize Next Web conference and run The Next Web blog as well.[via TechCrunch] Related Posts Random Posts Friendfeed turns on Real-Time Status UpdatesOctober [...]

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:28:17 +0000

[...] sharing service Fleck is up for sale. The owners blame a lack of time and investor [...]

By: Fleck.com (Annote The Web) Is Up For Sale!

Fleck.com (Annote The Web) Is Up For Sale! — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:53:46 +0000

[...] Contact patrick@fleck.com or leave a comment here. Techcrunch wrote an article about it as well. Share and [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:44:33 +0000

I got 10 out of 10! w00t

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:44:16 +0000

No shares but it is a public secret that both Erick and Michael will write about anything if you promise them a free beer. You didn’t know that?

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:42:41 +0000

Is that a serious question?

There were 20 other search engines that didn’t really work before Google started. The telephone was made popular by Bell but there were 18 failed efforts before he gave it a shot. Youtube succeeded where about 200 other companies failed in the same market. Skype? I had my first VOIP client in 1996, which didn’t work.

Success is going from failure to failure without lack of enthusiasm.

By: Serve You Right

Serve You Right — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:15:55 +0000

Anotation was done in Web 1.0 era and the site bombed. Why would anyone like Fleck would try again? Too much money to burn?

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:48:57 +0000

Web annotation is something that really does need to happen.

But only Google is positioned to do it properly.

And they wouldn’t want to piss of their advertisers, by facilitating critical comments on an advertiser’s web site.

But maybe they could use this to measure the reputation of an advertiser, and drop the worst of them.

By: huh

huh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:08:01 +0000

Just because someone remembers it does not make it a good thing.
I remember Enron. I remember Lehman Brothers.
What does it mean?

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:36:24 +0000

Yeah, and that is probably why you STILL remember them right? How many other stickers do you remember from that conference?

By: Bemused

Bemused — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:34:24 +0000

These were the same guys who turned up to San Francisco for Web2.0 Expo with 1000’s of stickers that said “blogable” on them.

Except… that the spelling of the word is “bloggable”. Haha

http://www.flic...web/2421117256/

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 誰もWebに注釈をつけたがらない現実を前にFleck、デッドプールの瀬戸際へ

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 誰もWebに注釈をつけたがらない現実を前にFleck、デッドプールの瀬戸際へ — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:58:04 +0000

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By: wade

wade — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:52:41 +0000

it seems that Diigo is often lumped with all these other dead or half-dead web annotation companies. The truth is that Diigo goes much beyond web annotation to provide a powerful personal research tool and a knowledge sharing network.

I know that may sound complicated, but users seem to like the mix and Diigo is alive and growing.

By: buzzdup.com

buzzdup.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:17:45 +0000

Fleck Headed To The Deadpool Because Nobody Wants to Annotate The Web…

Just a week after ReFrame It launched its service that lets people annotate Web pages, another startup that’s been doing pretty much the same thing since 2006, Fleck, is putting itself up for sale. Fleck is a Dutch company founded by Boris Veldhuijz…

By: pimp

pimp — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:57:09 +0000

wow erick — didn’t know you were a pimp! what’s your cut of the sale?

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:39:29 +0000

I hope they manage a sale, I like these guys and they posted http://deadpoolornot.com *cough *cough kinda apt these days…