Until early May, when The Verge confidentially disclosed the results of my independent security tests, the “web annotator” service provided by the tech startup Genius had been routinely undermining a ...

Rap Genius was just the first step to fulfilling Marc Andreessen’s Netscape dream of letting people annotate the whole Internet. Today, the lyric explanation startup tries to achieve its destiny with ...

Is a street preacher the right metaphor for every little blog online? UPDATE: Since this story was published, both Genius and Hypothesis have moved to undermine abuse via web annotation using their ...

Earlier today, the Observer reported extensively on reasons why some writers might prefer that services like Genius and Hypothesis refrain from imposing layers of annotation over their text, though it ...

Genius has hired former Gawker editor Leah Finnegan as managing news editor, the annotation start-up announced today. Hiring Finnegan — a former features editor at Gawker who most recently served as ...