Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)

by dzohrob • 14 years ago

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dzohrob6• 14 years ago

Hi HN, we'd love to get your feedback on the product we've been working on. Read a bit more about why we built it here: http://blog.lookmark.com/post/31927814893/why-we-built-lookm...

Happy to answer questions/get feedback here or via email -- team@lookmark.com. Thanks for checking it out.

rrival• 14 years ago

Looks cool - logo immediately reminds me of Valvoline's - http://www.valvoline.com/

jamesbritt• 14 years ago

"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 things Facebook can decide to do to subvert this.

IOW, does Facebook track the use of an account for Lookmark identification? Are they tracking when a user signs in to Lookmark?

Just how much does Facebook get to know about a user's use of Lookmark?

Thanks, BTW, for offering a non-FB way to sign up.

dzohrob6• 14 years ago

Thanks 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 -- they expose it to you via the Application Settings tab (http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications). I don't know what else they're tracking behind the scenes though. That's why we offer a non-Facebook login option.

rohamg2• 14 years ago

Well done Dave & team, looks and works awesome

dzohrob6• 14 years ago

Thanks!

autophil• 14 years ago

Compliments on the domain name Lookmark. Clever. Did you have to buy if from someone, or was it available to register?

dzohrob6• 14 years ago

Thanks! We bought it from its "original" owner. We had the .it domain but thought it was worth it go for the .com.

tobylane• 14 years ago

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?

dzohrob6• 14 years ago

We'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 sources in the future, though I don't think any Facebook Social Reader apps have open APIs.

nuttendorfer• 14 years ago

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.

dookie• 14 years ago

awesome service, now all i need is more friends

rohamg2• 14 years ago

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

dzohrob6• 14 years ago

We're definitely going to implement something like this; thanks for the suggestion.

zooteo• 14 years ago

Looks 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

amitm• 14 years ago

Thanks! Automatic sharing is opt-in instead of opt-out, which means you would have to manually add a site like redtube. On top of that, we've prevented our software from ever touching certain sites, including search engines, webmail accounts, banking or financial institution pages, and adult websites.

Check out our faq: http://lookmark.com/faq

newtonapple• 14 years ago

Looks a lot like http://www.readshout.com/.

Show HN: Lookmark, read what your friends are reading (for Chrome)

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