[FC-discuss] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

[Greg Grossmeier]

<quoting name="atrus at atrus.org" date="2010-02-15" time="11:11:27 -0500">
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:
> >Adi Kamdar wrote:
> ...
> >>Who wants to make a Google Doc and start this project up? :)
> >
> >Unless you're aiming for irony, you might also consider a free annotation
> >service like http://www.co-ment.net/ :)
> 
> I'm sorry, but I have to note that I find co-coment's terms have defeciencies of their own. For example, they don't have a clear retention policy (Google at least lets you permanently delete) and fail to obtain an explicit license to redistribute users' content (which they unavoidably do in providing their service. They seem to be located outside the USA, though, so perhaps the latter isn't an issue in their jurisdiction.

How about digress.it or commentpress (both are wordpress plugins)?

But, I'm also in the "lets just get something started and not bike shed 
it to death" camp.

greg

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