If you missed SideWiki like I have it might be, like me, you don't use the Google Toolbar in your browser. Well, thanks to buddy Michael Brito who published this link to is self-sidewikied entry to is own facebook page, I am now a SWiki-er. I've been a wiki fan for a while, but this takes things to a new level of content tagging and yet another disruptive technology from Google.
So as we are moving forward we can tag, comment and post content about the page that we are viewing. This in and of itself is not new, but that Google has added this function rather than some "untrusted" third party. [I imagine your groans, but pause for a second. If you think Google doesn't already have all the information on you to make a VERY LARGE file, then you probably delete your cookies each time you quit FF. I have resigned myself to using Google Analytics, with Info Sharing turned on, Google Voice, iGoogle as my RSS reader of choice. Anyway, to me, Google already has the links on me so adding more info to my file is not a concern of mine. The "toolbar" on the other hand takes up a lot of screen real estate and I'm not a fan of toolbars, regardless of how innovative and useful they are.]
Here are a few questions I have about SideWiki and how we, the browsing public [not the browsing marketers], might use SideWiki to enrich our browsing experience. So for now, I have the Google Toolbar enabled [wondering if there is a different SideWiki option] and I will add a few SideWiki entries as I go around. But I bet ya, within 24 hours I've hidden the Google Toolbar again and SideWiki will fall to the bottom of my internet toolbox. Until I NEED it.
[Kinda like Google WAVE, IMHO, it will be neat when I NEED it. Right now I don't need it. I don't even really understand it, but I'm sure I will at some point.]
So are you SideWiki savvy? If not, you might get on and check it out. Even if it's just to imagine how Google might use SideWiki content to influence search results. Go figure!
@jmacofearth
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Kudos to britopian for his new gig:
