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Google SideWiki Brings Comments To Everyone

Posted by timothy on from the obvious-things-are-hard-to-get-right dept.

Rophuine writes "Google has launched a product called SideWiki. It takes the form of a plug-in to Firefox and Internet Explorer which allows users to mark up the web by adding comments which can be seen by anyone else running SideWiki." Google's version joins a long line of attempts to impose a layer of comments on the Web, including Microsoft's Smart Tags and Third Voice.

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  1. Re:No Chrome? by Traegorn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chrome will support it built in to the new version.

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  2. 1960: Ted Nelson, Project Xanadu by spun · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, it's a great idea, the only problem is making it actually work. Some folks have been trying for almost fifty years.

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  3. Warning - It installs a bunch of crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The installation installs a toolbar that is stuffed full of all sorts of crap that I DO NOT WANT, like trying to get me to log on to google and sending usage data to google and a redundant google search field. Hopefully someone will do this better, like Third Voice used to do it.

  4. Re:Terrific. by spitzak · · Score: 2, Informative

    "astroturf" means fake testimonials, not ads, which are generally called "spam".

    So saying "you can get this cheaper elsewhere" is not "astroturfing". A fake post from a "customer" saying "I bought this and it is wonderful" or "it really sucks" would be astroturfing.

    Of course this will collect plenty of both spam and astroturf.

  5. I had a plugin for Netscape 4 that did this by Com2Kid · · Score: 2, Informative

    Back in 1996 or so I had a Netscape 4 plugin that did this.

    Someone tries to do it again every few years.

    *sigh*

    People need to study their history.

    Google may succeed in this because of the wide distribution of their toolbar, but that is the only difference in this effort.

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  6. wiki ? by Tom · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called a wiki, but from what I've seen I don't see any wiki functionality at all. It looks a lot more like a blog, or rather the comment section of a blog to me.

    Why do the call it wiki when I can leave a comment, but not participate in a kind of "review of this page" site? Basically, when it is not a wiki?

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