One one hand, I see it as an evil tool for spammers to divert traffic and competitors to degrade your web properties through negative/untruthful comments. And on the other hand, it is a way for users to communicate their ideas/opinions about a website to others.

The thing is, in both cases this SideWiki is manipulating websites without the webmaster’s control. I’ll have to wait and see as to what stance I’ll be taking – for or against SideWiki. Nonetheless, I think that trust should play a major role in the comments posted through SideWiki.

its nice to read, i think sidewiki is not a good tool and many people will use it to push their sites or told bald about other sites.

You can register many account on google and so i mean its not good for internet.

Wish you all good business and have fun in internet.

Best regards
Andre

The huge sites on the net are rapidly becoming the equivalent of the multinational conglomerates before the crash, all powerful and answerable to virtually no-one. Those of us producing new sites are reduced to ‘the longtail’ because there is almost no way of generating enough authority within a single lifetime to do much more.

All of the biggest sites now are what could generically be called social media sites – they empower rather than inform; we’re rapidly moving from the Information Age to the Empowerment Age. That has huge implications for us producing any kind of site from hereon.

http://www.marketersboard.com/google-sidewiki-controversy/

In many ways I find it similar to the scripts from a couple of years ago that allowed you to place a popup opt-in box on someone else’s sales page.

We know it is something that can be gone, but it is right to do it… maybe even evil… on the popups the lawyers were saying that it might be illegal, even though you might be doing it to increase sales though your own links.

If you see the spa problem Sylvie highlights, I think that will be the death of Sidewiki

I was wondering your thoughts on this?
Are they being over dramatic , just selling me something or maybe they have a valid point?