- Where's the Beef? / Pihvi
- Highlight the most powerful news content
- We want to encourage participation and constructive interaction
- We want to create our analytics and to know what is meaningful content
- Article is not the basic unit of news anymore, we want something more fine-grained
- Many news medias place user comments after the article
- Lack of context, misunderstandings, takes more time to write
- How many of you actually write comments on any news article?
- Genius Web Annotator, example: Annotated transcript: The Aug. 6 GOP debate
- Quartz uses annotations
- Kudos
- Audio commenting in SoundCloud: The exact point of a song as a commenting context
- Reactions in Facebook: Giving digital tools for easy human interaction
- Kudos widget
- Imgur comments: Essential part of the reader experience
- Highlighted books