Google SideWiki is a plugin for Google Chrome that allows people to add comments to existing Web pages. The comments are viewable by others using Google SideWiki in a Chrome browser. Oh, and you need to have a Google account too!
At present, less than 10,000 users have SideWiki installed, so its usefulness is extremely limited. But it might be useful to tourism businesses now or in the future.
Current uses could include gathering usability suggestions for shared Web sites or helping clients or staff find and correct errors or omissions.
In the future, such tools could enable commenting and reviewing to be widespread. Visitors to your Web site could get advice and information from other visitors. Perhaps in some way, this technology would be like digital graffiti with no real value, but projects like Wikipedia have shown how a community of users can contribute to the knowedge and information in a very positive way. . . of course there are editors ensuring the content added to Wikipedia is accurate.
Interesting.
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Chrome is not required. It's also a part of the google toolbar for Internet Explorer 6+ or Firefox 2+.
Thanks for clarifying…. that could make for an interesting tool. Is
it going to catch on?