Google announced Sidewiki, an add-on to Google Toolbar that allows any user to add notes to a webpage.
Google Sidewiki is a new feature being added today to the Google Toolbar that allows anyone to leave comments about pages as they surf the web. Love something you’re reading? Hate it? You can share your views with others who visit the page and who also have Sidewiki enabled. Share, that is, if Google thinks your comment is good enough. [From Google Sidewiki Allows Anyone To Comment About Any Site]
Wait, remember when Third Voice tried this in 1999 and was roundly ripped for being the equivalent of website graffiti? What Third Voice was doing was, as far as I can tell, pretty much spot on for what Google announced today… yet not a word of that long gone company in any of the coverage this morning. Maybe Carol Bartz has a point…
“I just want to transplant all you guys out of this sort of cynicism you’re in. I mean, why are you cynical about us [me: Yahoo]? Be cynical about frickin’ Google. Leave us alone.
In the same vein:
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant.
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About Venture Chronicles
My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant.
Along the way to becoming a bona fide blogger I started to understand the implications of user generated content. At the time I was a venture capitalist for SAP, the enterprise software company, and in my travels in the enterprise software market it became evident that blogging would be a powerful communication channel for enterprises to use, what we now call social media, and a powerful information collection mechanism for bottom up corporate intelligence. Combined with search technology, social networking software, and wikis, I was witnessing the inception of an entirely new generation of knowledge management software.
I am currently the VP Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction, the simple and effective way to build online communities that enable productive conversations between companies and their customers. Over 50,000 companies use Get Satisfaction to create a social support experience, build better products, realize SEO benefits, and take advantage of brand loyalty behaviors that results in strong word of mouth marketing experiences in the market.
I can be reached at jnolan-at-gmail-dot-com.
Google announced Sidewiki, an add-on to Google Toolbar that allows any user to add notes to a webpage.
