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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Google Sidewiki

Today browsing through the buzz I came across one more Google Service which is not yet popularly known its called Google Sidewiki.

It seems to be a fun application if more and more people start using it. Not that its an innovative idea (I think similar service existed as an Firefox addon earlier) but what makes it exciting for me is the fact that now its backed by Google. It means that more and more people will have access to it and it has a potential to become widely used application.

One has to install the Chrome Extention to use Sidewiki and then one can read the inputs/articles of other people on the visited webpage. One can post his or her comments on the webpage to his Blog, Twitter etc there by providing easy of publishing.

What I find missing was the fact that one has to click the Sidewiki icon and then also click "Read Entries" to read if any other user entries exists on the visited vebpage. I think it shhould detect and give automatic indication that the user comments on the page exists. Just realised it does give an indication that the sidewiki entries exists for the page however as per my observation the indicator comes little late..may be my net connection.. early to say...

To understand the working methodology of Google Sidewiki visit http://www.google.com/sidewiki/

So start using Sidewiki and let me know your views...

(PS: This is my first blog entry using Sidewiki)
in reference to: http://www.google.com/sidewiki/intl/en/index-chrome.html#tbbrand= (view on Google Sidewiki)

Friday, February 12, 2010

The Success Mantra of Google Buzz!!

Power of Google Buzz lies in its capability to even pull the non-twitter users to its Buzz Service.

Consider this that there are many people not using twitter... why... they dont want one more social service network to join... or say any other reason.

On the other hand the people using Twitter will be unable to stop themself from using Buzz. They cant even stop themslves from linking there Twitter account and other networks to Buzz... so Buzz will have loads of activity from its inception... This will attract the other users who dont use Twitter but will use Buzz for its easy accessibilty from Gmail.

So say if 1 Twitter user is able to pull say 5 non-twitter user... buzz ends up having 6 users... The Success Mantra of Google Buzz!!

http://www.google.com/buzz