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Tom Lehman, co-founder and CEO of Genius, gives a lightning talk at the inaugural Code Genius about "fuzzy annotation anchoring" – i.e., how Genius is able to associate annotations with their referents even aft... Videos — GENIUS ENGINEERING

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DYK: My middle name is “Sparpe” – a misprint on my birth certificate!!

Actually it’s kind of a tricky philosophical question whether it’s possible to have a misprint on your birth certificate since it’s the canonical truth about what your name is! Would Kripke say that it’s an a posteriori necessary truth that my middle name is “Sparpe” (even tho it was intended to be “Sharpe”?)

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The Genius beta essentially builds upon the power of hyperlinks and the Wikipedia rabbit hole. The idea, as Lehman noted on Product Hunt, is to have people "read articles by jumping from annotation to annotation." Genius's annotations bring hyperlinks to life, adding running commentary and background. For publications, this could be yet another way to promote content and increase engagement, giving readers the... Annotating Service Genius Wants To Mark Up The Entire Internet | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

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IT’S CALLED “ANNO-SKIMMING” OK?

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“annotating service” is interesting

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...signed to deliberately trip people up, make fools of the less respected and call people out. Team spirit is non existent as ‘internal customers’ attack individuals and push agendas that satisfy their morning egos. Hours upon hours were wasted in meetings to prepare for meetings in preparation for other meetings to the point where little work actually got done. These rehearsals – called ‘dry runs’ (to me it so... I Quit: What Really Goes on at Apple | Road Less Travelled

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A great term for an unfortunate meme to which I am sometimes party (which, sorry!)

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“morning ego” still needs exegesis for me

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in the morning your ego is the strongest / spikiest because you just had coffee (metonym and real)

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...k at the future of Genius / the Internet with y’all!

As you probably know, Genius started as a project to annotate hip-hop lyrics. We’ve since expanded beyond music into annotating all kinds of text — literature, political speeches, the Bible, etc.

Now we’re embarking on our biggest challenge yet: annotating the entire Internet and in doing so fulfilling one of the fever dreams of the early web. Not many peop...

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E.g., CATCHER IN THE RYE

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...Internet with y’all!

As you probably know, Genius started as a project to annotate hip-hop lyrics. We’ve since expanded beyond music into annotating all kinds of text — literature, political speeches, the Bible, etc.

Now we’re embarking on our biggest challenge yet: annotating the entire Internet and in doing so fulfilling one of the fever dreams of the early web. Not many people know this, but when Marc And...

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One of my favorite parts:

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One of my favorite parts:

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...ure of Genius / the Internet with y’all!

As you probably know, Genius started as a project to annotate hip-hop lyrics. We’ve since expanded beyond music into annotating all kinds of text — literature, political speeches, the Bible, etc.

Now we’re embarking on our biggest challenge yet: annotating the entire Internet and in doing so fulfilling one of the fever dreams of the early web. Not many people know this, but wh...

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Including some classic SOTUs:

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E.g., CATCHER IN THE RYE

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Dozens of onlookers crowded into MoMA PS1 on Friday to watch what was presumably the first ever live internet annotation battle held inside a geodesic dome in Queens. At Launch Party, Post-Rap Genius Shows How to Annotate Anything on the Web | Motherboard

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Whether igloo, hut, or lean-to, or geodesic dome, there’s no structure I’d rather live annotate battle in.. than the MoMA PS1 geodesic dome!

https://genius.com/The-simpsons-who-needs-the-kwik-e-mart-annotated

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PLEASE tell me you looped ‘lose yourself’ in the background

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also, “dozens of onlookers” was actually more than 1000 visitors over the course of the night!

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Sick! @emily

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“We thought this was the perfect event to showcase this because Simon’s work is all about innovation on the internet,” Genius CEO and co-founder Tom Lehman told Motherboard. “Honestly, this is in some sense about innovating and pushing the web forward, but it’s also kind of going back to the early days of the web too. The original web browsers were supposed to include annotation, ... At Launch Party, Post-Rap Genius Shows How to Annotate Anything on the Web | Motherboard

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Recently I’ve been trying to, instead of STARTING sentences with “honestly”, END them with “if you want to know the truth” (I recently re-read Catcher in the Rye)

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Integrate the suggestion into the annotation, keeping the contributor guidelines in mind.