Press: What are people saying about Reframe It?


Ars Technica

"With a low learning curve and a strong focus on annotation, research, and a clean UI, Reframe It is a great option for groups and small businesses to collaborate when researching the web."

cNet

"I found using the service a good community experience."

Killer Startups

"a flexible and inexpensive way of commenting on any webpage."

Open Culture

"Today, the world can begin to explore a new web app that will undoubtedly hold appeal for book lovers on the web. The app is called Reframe It, and it lets you write in the margins of any web page, much as you'd write in the margins of a book. And, even better, it lets you share the comments with others, turning marginalia into something of a public conversation."

Venture Beat

"a huge boon for teachers trying to stir class discussion, but also seems streamlined enough to steal recreational web surfers from less organized annotation and social bookmarking apps."

zdNet

"Every so often you come across a web application that is a game changer: the utility of browser plugin reframeit is a hugely powerful adjunct to your use of the entire web... The ability of reframeit to bring transparency to specific collaboration teams is something I will be experimenting with; I think it has tremendous utility in the modern enterprise."
- Oliver Marks

Mashable

"Pretty remarkable…. Reframe It is a commendable piece of work. You'll need a few minutes to familiarize yourself with it, and you'll have to appreciate the way it lives within Firefox and IE. But once you do, its value becomes quite clear and in fact grows the more it is used"

Read Write Wep

"Reframe It represents one of the better implementations of social annotations we have seen so far."

Political Colors

"It's a web application that will revolutionize politics on the Internet. Reframe It allows users to directly comment on the content of web pages without the permission of the Web site."

"Reframe It can help curb the power of misinformation to distort our national conversation about issues that matter."

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard professor, Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and co-founder of The Root

"Your responsibility does not end with complaining. Suggest something better!"

Esther Dyson, former chair of the ICANN Board, chair of EDventure Holdings, and board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

"Seeing what people you trust have to say about a web page, together with the capability to debate, discuss, and provide references, supportive or contradictory evidence, makes it possible for accuracy and reliability of online material to be verified or questioned socially... Just as the Web transformed the Internet, Reframe It has the potential to add a layer of richness to existing technology that doesn't presently exist."

Howard Rheingold, author of Smart Mobs and visionary chronicler of new forms of collaboration on the internet

"This important initiative will provide a new focus for the on-going effort to create a more deliberative form of American democracy."

Bruce Ackerman, Yale professor, author of We the People, member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences