Человек в картинках (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mbravo) wrote,@ 2009-09-24 00:39:00 |
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some thoughts on Google SideWiki launch
Personally, I'm not really touched by this launch, as I never used the toolbar (neither Google's nor Yandex one, I just dislike the whole invasive concept). As the result, I only use SearchWiki sometimes, and won't be able to use SideWiki, except as a read-only data source, programmatically. However, there are some interesting points regarding the service as such:
- how are they going to combat inevitable massive spam?
- how will SideWiki entries coexist/intersect with SearchWiki entries, if at all?
- kudos for getting the API out on day 1 (gimme a Python library though :) )
- since there are no ads (yet?), I wonder a) when will they appear, if at all b) what can be the benefit to Google, besides potentially enriching the web content, making it more targeted while at the same time diverse
On the last bullet, one idea that comes to mind is harvesting reputation points and dynamics - this could serve as underpinnings of some kind of reputation network running over the Google Accounts.
Also, someone should write a Firefox plugin for those toolbar-less people like me, which would indicate if there are SideWiki entries active for the current page, and allow to display them. Should be easy enough for any plugin author to do that, what with Javascript API already available and no authentication required.
