Our first public release is now behind us. We came out OK. I’d like to express gratitude to TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and others who took the time to try out MashLogic and express their opinions. We apologize for the scarcity of invitations, but rest assured that if you signed up, they’ll be on their way soon.
Take Back the Web
It’s a snappy slogan, perhaps a bit bold. But for us, it’s a Business Imperative. We want to give you control over what gets linked, where those links take you, and how you interact with those links. For example:
- Control the hover vs. click behavior of the callouts (popups) through the Configuration -> Options panel.
- Suspend/Restart MashLogic by clicking the swirly icon in your browser toolbar.
- Drag the mashes up or down the stack to specify their precedence. Prefer TechCrunch information over Wikipedia? Just drag the TechCrunch mash up a few notches.
Bad MashLogic, No Donut
There seems to be a perception in some quarters that we remove or modify links and content, and it’s just a matter of time before you are sucked into a hellish vortex of spam and ads.
Dear me.
Our investor David Cowan has stated our position eloquently and explicitly. Please take a look.
While we undoubtedly make some boneheaded choices of terms to link, we will not touch the original links unless you instruct us to take action. And when you do ask, we pop up a little warning. Under default conditions all original links are available. We may add those dotted blue links under them, but all you have to do is click (as you always have) and you’ll get to the destination specified by the publisher. There is a nuance — if you have configured MashLogic with Show pop-up on mouse click selected, the original link will appear at the top of the callout.
Please feel free to direct comments to feedback at mashlogic dot com. We’re also tuned in to your tweets @mashlogic on Twitter.
Could we please have that donut now?
