Design Meme » tools http://www.designmeme.com Web Design News & Resources Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:45:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 SideWinder: Check Google SideWiki Bookmarklet http://www.designmeme.com/sidewinder/ http://www.designmeme.com/sidewinder/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:54:52 +0000 Stuart Robertson http://www.designmeme.com/?p=454 Continue reading →]]> sidewinderSideWinder is a quick and easy way to check posts about a website in Google’s new SideWiki service.

SideWiki is a service hosted by Google that allows users to leave comments about any website they are visiting for other SideWiki users to view. This isn’t a new idea, and other companies have tried to introduce similar services in the past. What makes SideWiki more likely to succeed is it’s ease of use by being integrated into Google’s search toolbar and the large number of established users that represents.

Despite this you may not be using Google Toolbar, or otherwise not want to install it just to check into what people are saying about a particular website. In that case you can still get the SideWiki information through Google’s new SideWiki API.

SideWinder is a simple implementation of this API letting you add a bookmarklet to your browser and click it to load SideWiki data for any website you might be visiting.

Drag this link to your browser bookmarks toolbar: