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Hypothes.is VS Newsit

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  • Hypothes.is Landing page
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    2023-09-19
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    2021-08-01

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  • Review - Hypothes.is: Using Web Annotation in the Online Classroom | OOLN Community Webinar

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Hypothes.is seems to be a lot more popular than Newsit. While we know about 46 links to Hypothes.is, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Newsit. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Hypothes.is mentions (46)

  • Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
    Hypothesis https://web.hypothes.is/ is pretty good at keeping notes on PDF. Normally it anchors the annotations for any url but I believe that for PDF is also doing some extra checksum magic to uniquely identify the PDF and apply the annotations. Furthermore you can have collaboration features such as group annotations. Useful for classes or science labs... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago
  • What happened to the idea of having a comment section for each webpage?
    Tools like https://web.hypothes.is exist and have a decent number of installs. The hard part of a generic third-party commenting tool is creating the right social context for it to actually be useful. Hypothesis for example is mostly used via its integration into online learning platforms, where that context already exists. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
    I honestly can't imagine not using extensions. I'm 39 and have been on the web since Netscape etc in the early 90s and I honestly care more about the extensions than I do anything the browser actually does. Like, if there were no extensions I don't think I'd care at all if I used Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc. But Chrome and Firefox have this massive, massive ecosystem of productitivy improving extensions. I'll give... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
    I think https://web.hypothes.is/ would be of interest to you. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Startup to add likes and upvotes on any context?
    Https://web.hypothes.is/ already exists for collaborative commentary on practically anything web based. So there is a market of sorts. Source: 10 months ago
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Newsit mentions (2)

  • Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper, believe me
    Something I've always wanted to work on was a browser extension that allowed things like this to happen collaboratively. There's stuff like PeerLibrary[0] that lets you annotate things as a group, but it's limited to publications and things you upload. Nyxt seems to meet what I want but lacks the collaborative aspect I'm looking for. There's a couple of Browser extensions that have sorta tried to accomplish this... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
  • Here's an article that might be of interest
    I often use Newsit to tell whether something has been posted. Source: almost 3 years ago

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