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Learning from the ThirdVoice experience

Posted by Mary in Rayt it! on 20/07/2007 at 11:25 AM

ThirdVoice is a previous effort at web annotation that died in 2001.  Here's a excellent analysis from my friend and collaborator, Joe Solomon, on ThirdVoice and what it means for Rayt:

Mary -

Your idea (Rayt) has really stuck with me and I've been discussing it with friends and even brought it up @ AspirationTech's latest eAdvocacy conference!

What I found out:

A group tried to create a similar model akin to Rayt's in the late 90s. A Wired article from 2001 summarizes it pretty well:

"In 1999... launched Third Voice, a free browser plug-in that allowed Web surfers

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Rayt FAQ

Posted by Mary in Rayt it! on 18/07/2007 at 06:10 PM

1. Why did you pick the name "Rayt"?

It's a play on the word "rate." Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. Also, Rayt is like a "ray" of light, shining the interactivity of real Web 2.0 throughout the entire internet. So really, the name works on three levels.

2. Tell me quickly, how does Rayt work?

First you install the Rayt add-on to you Firefox browser. Then you will have a little Rayt icon on your toolbar. Whenever you visit a site that you want

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For Developers

Posted by Mary in Rayt it! on 18/07/2007 at 05:54 PM

Hi Developer,

Thanks for visiting the Rayt development blog. I am not a developer, so I will need a lot of help to make Rayt a reality.  In a nutshell, I want Rayt to be a Firefox add-on that allows people to write, view, and rate (rayt) comments through a banner at the top of their browser screen.  For this I think I will need:

  • 3 dialogue boxes: make a comment, rayt a comment, viewing preferences
  • code to interact with the server on which the comments are stored
  • a database to organize the comments
  • a ranking algorithm to
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