Fountain Notes

[balupton]

Phase 2 of Fountain is adding semantic/contextual rich notes to external content, such as youtube videos, audiobooks, and kindle books. Initial MVP will focus on youtube videos, then branch out into the other areas. Goal is to turn the initial note taking in the collaborative wisdom market, and streamline the approach, which is currently timestamped and summary notes in information silos of private note taking apps, which should be streamlined into inline notes on the actual content people are consuming.

Evergreen:

• consider mobile and desktop friendly UI for all the below

MVP

• add a youtube video URL into the system
• twitter login, suggest host and participant of the video via their twitter handles
• suggested users confirm, until confirm by admin or nominee
• allow people to create timestamped comments on the youtube video url
• allow people to add their non-timestamped notes to an overall video url
• allow people to comment on other comments
• show visual representation of comments alongside the video timeline, similar to how soundcloud does it for audio comments

Transcriptions

• accept payments to cover the initial transcription for the video
• create a transcription for video, as youtube owns their transcriptions
• allow users to suggest corrections to the transcription, as well as suggest which parts of the transcription are spoken by whom
• show the transcription alongside the youtube video url
• allow people to highlight parts of a transcription/video-segment
• show which parts of the content are most highlighted in the video palyer's timeline, similar to how pornhub does it for timeline to watch %

Tipping

• accept tips for access to the transcription for the video, that go to the person who paid for the original transcription
• accept tips for the participants in the video, that go to the participants of the video

Responses

• enable textual, video and audio response to a video
  • timestamped/highlighted responses
  • comment responses
  • responses to the overall video

Spam

• initially commenting will be private, pay to unlock public visibility of contributions
• enable free public contributions based on their Perspective API ranking, which the hosts of the content being created for, can customise the minimum rank for public visibility
• allow users to elect their own ranking for their own visibility