[WikiEN-l] Sidewiki

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Matthews
Sidewiki is from Google, is a toolbar feature they have come up with for commenting web pages, and is apparently launched tomorrow: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html So now the entire Web gets talkpages. Sadly this doesn't actually make the entire

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidewiki

2009-10-22 Thread Bod Notbod
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Oops, can't read/can't count at this time in the morning - was launched 23rd September (see [[Google Toolbar]]). Does anyone actually use this in ways relevant to WP? I downloaded the Google toolbar

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidewiki

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Matthews
Bod Notbod wrote: I heard a radio show discussing side-wiki and one issue they raised was that it gave web owners no control over what people said about their site in the wiki (as opposed, say, to on-site comments). Hmmm, and it would be a way of commenting on any site while keeping your

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidewiki

2009-10-22 Thread Sage Ross
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Does anyone actually use this in ways relevant to WP? I rather like the first (most helpful) sidewiki comment from the main page: Sidewiki provides what Wikipedia has long needed. A place for people to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidewiki

2009-10-22 Thread stevertigo
Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Oops, can't read/can't count at this time in the morning - was launched 23rd September (see [[Google Toolbar]]). Does anyone actually use this in ways relevant to WP? Its a good question. There have been web annotation tools out there for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidewiki

2009-10-22 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/10/22 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com: But I haven't seen anything really compelling about sidewiki in particular yet.  It seems like a crippled alternative to the blog comments Firefox plugin Google used to have but then disabled. It reminds me faintly of google's searchwiki,