Sunday, September 27, 2009
Google launches 'sidewiki'
On Wednesday, the big G lauched a new web annotation took for IE and Firefox ( and here I use Safari... I guess their love affair with APPLE is over) that allows people to make comments about a website. Here is the article:http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Google-Wends-Its-Way-Into-Web-Annotation-With-Sidewiki-68207.html. However, as the author notes, some people are finding a negative to this. For all of us who are bloggers, we can no longer moderate comments. Also, since comments, and their lively disscusion is what brings traffic to a website, this may have a limiting effect on popularity. Although I think Google is a very smart decision maker, I am not sure this will turn out to be such a smart decision in the long run. Will have to wait to see.
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This is interesting, it sounds like the same principle as how to identify spam, by the number of people who report it. So Google will decide relevance by the number of people who blog on an issue? And what is that part about sharing revenue with the blog owners? Is that real money or tip money?
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