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GoogleSideWiki

GoogleSideWiki project of Google is shot down by Google. -- FridemarPache 2012-Januar-07 00:09:22

Google launched in Sept 2009 a new AnnotationWiki, that has the potential to glue all public Web pages and CommunitiesThatScale via host wikis. Now, in TwitteR too, http://twitter.com/googlesidewiki

Wikipedia claims that Google Sidewiki will be discontinued in 2011.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki

As it already allows and generates links, it appears superior to the GoogleSearchWiki.

GoogleSearchWiki misses important properties of a wiki as described in Wiki:WikiPrinciples, however it makes a very convenient community tool by its syndication to social networks (Twitter, Facebook, blogs).

To make GoogleSideWiki more like a real Wiki, we can use the following technique as a workaround:

Write a contribution  in any wiki which has a rich LinkLanguage 
vocabulary in CamelCase , take a text-only copy (of some 
subset) of it and paste this as annotation to an appropriate 
page in the web. At the end of your SideWiki comment add as  
link:

Visit the host wiki of this annotation to have all CamelCase 
words resolved as links.

And here is a [SideWikiRecentChanges]

A special case of this suggested workaround is making exactly this contribution a SideWiki annotation.

Of course there can be more than one SideWiki comments as demonstrated by this response to Hans:

RT@HansWobbe. Thank you for calling attention to SideWiki in 
Meatball.

contributors: FridemarPache, JuanmaMP, HansWobbe ..

BuildTalk

JuanmaMP: I think it is not really a wiki, sidewiki is like a business tag; rather it makes any page as a blog: GoogleSideBlog

FridemarPache: Juanma, I have taken your statement to extend the DocumentMode part and applied the procedure as [this SideWiki comment].

FridemarPache: RT@HansWobbe. Thank you for calling attention to SideWiki in Meatball.

Hans, Juanma what about leaving similar annotations on SideWiki. This has the advantage, that we can expand our build talk to a global level, increasing the chances, that we get addiditional builders for our BuildTalk.

BTW do you know the ReframeIt service, which is similar to SideWiki: e.g. http://reframeit.com/comments/BOrhxAb94a5 as another annotation/snapshot of this page?

Hans thank you for entering the global BuildTalk on [SideWiki]. I just noticed you "sitekick" today.

  • You're quite welcome, Fridemar. I will likely only be lurking a bit though. It seems to me that there are just far too many emerging "wannabe"s launching these types of applications just now, so I'm going to sit on the sidelines rather than joining this particular "gold rush". -- HansWobbe

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Some Observations

  • GoogleSideWiki...
    • does not function unless the Google Toolbar is active.
    • will not annotate "localhost" pages (unlike ReframeIt,(which does not (yet) have an Edit function for its posts)).
    • Clicking on a SideWiki comment, leads very conveniently to the special annotated part. I still don't know, how SideWiki handles changed or even deleted parts...
    • ..

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