SideWinder 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.
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I want to try this, but I don’t want to.
LOL.
Something seems “wrong” with this idea.
RM
I agree – I’m really not sure I like the idea of SideWiki. I wrote this bookmarklet so I could check it out without having to install Google’s Toolbar.
I’m positive that IE5 or IE5.5 or something included a “feature” like Sidewiki which was hastily removed when people kicked up a fuss. But now I can’t find any record of it – not really sure what the product name was. Anyone have a clue?
Slightly amused that there appear to be no Sidewiki comments on this page to test with
Thanks for a nice tool!
I tried the Bookmarklet, but I wish there was a way to comment and completely replicate the Toolbar functionality.
In the meantime, you can completely hide the Google toolbar and keep the Sidewiki icon unobtrusively .
Hope that helps some people out.