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What’s available?Any of the 1000s of WordPress plugins

What’s available?Any of the 1000s of WordPress plugins

They’re all the same!

So, what’s new?GeniusIO is a web annotations platform

TextReaders can comment

throughout the article rather than just at the bottom

Resulting in higher quality and more focused discussions

As Teachers’ Asst. for a High School English Department

Teachers love it“S! much easie" t! grade”

Students have fun interpreting text with classmates

I learned...

Higher quality data set for Natural Language Processing (NLP)

VerticalsEducators Teams

Publishers

Critically analyze books and readings as a classPurpose: High Growth

Understand research journals and project documentsPurpose: $$ + Growth

Know more about reader engagement on articles

Purpose: $$$

first + free!

CompetitionEducators Teams

Publishers

Features• In-text annotations (like iBooks)

• Network-based viewing (like Google+)

• Sweet data visualizations (ex: Engagement Heatmaps)

• Recommendations to improve articles based on audience reception

Business ModelFree private docs for teachers

Restricted to only books(from Project Gutenberg)

Reader Plans Publisher PlansFree Pro $5 - $100

<5 private docs

Unlimited public

Standard Features

5 private per $5

Realtime Collaboration

Premium Features

Free $10 - $500Public Moderation

Basic Analytics

Public Moderation

Premium Analytics

Custom Styling

The C#l PartIn the background,

GeniusIO will be analyzing and evaluating annotationsto understand what makes a good annotationlearning context and word connections with

real user data, not some random NLP exercise.

(the future)

Using technologies like

The Goal?Create a system that can accurately understand context and quality non-uniform text responses

ApplicationsReplace Scantron Exams

Medical Diagnosis

Sentient Robots

Who am I?• 17-year-old HS senior

• Junior-level Comp Sci @ George Mason U

• Engineer @ Speek (500Startups)

• Engineering Intern @ ClassDojo (Ron Conway, PG)

• Intern @ NASA

• Freelance WordPress Developer & Writer

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