Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone. Even if you’re not in Canada, you can appreciate the fact that we have a national holiday. Yesterday, just because I could, I went and posted a comment (positive) on the BBC website. I was surprised that I was the first. Of course, maybe no one will every read it but [...]

Why should you care about Sidewiki? The answer is that people may be posting derogatory comments about you or your products in the Sidewiki adjacent to your website. When visitors see the yellow Sidewiki icon, they’ll look. This could help you lose business.

Okay, what if I said that your corporate website, all carefully designed, had been hijacked by spammers and negative comments? Would you believe it possible? Google Sidewiki is hog heaven for spammers and malcontents. I’m not saying that some people don’t have legitimate ‘beefs’ with companies and that Google Sidewiki can give them a voice. [...]

I stumbled across news of Google Sidewiki a few days ago. It was launched on Sept. 23 – just over a week ago but I was not aware of that at the time I found it. I thought it was just an interesting novelty. People had not yet heard of it and I thought that [...]