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Google Sidewiki

Today, I learned just a little about Google Sidewiki. I played around with it for about 10 mins. I kinda like it, but I'm curious to see how well it will evolve.

Things I'd like for it to do:

• There should be a console for webmasters that will allow them to see all of the conversations going on within their domain.
• There should be a widget that webmasters can add to their websites/blogs that will give visitors a hint that there are Sidewiki entries for the page. I think that will also help increase the visibility of this new feature.
• I have not yet seen a page on my Google account where I can see all of my Sidewiki entries. Such a page would be useful in case I wanted to revisit the page to see more recent entries from others. I could also use that page to remove any of my Sidewiki comments that I didn't want out there anymore.
• There ought to be an option for automatically posting a link to my social networks regarding either the page I created a Sidewiki entry for or to the to my Sidewiki entry.

I am going to continue playing around with Google Sidewiki. So far, I think it is a good idea and hope to see it take off. I do hope there's a way keep spam from proliferating...

Google Reader

Google is looking for Product Ideas for Reader. I love using Google Reader, and I had ideas of my own. So I went ahead and posted them. Go vote for them if you don't mind. So far, I've posted 3 ideas.

I hate the current TypePad iPhone app

I really hate the current version of the TypePad iPhone app. In fact, that might be one of the reasons why I moved away from TypePad last year..."

"What do I hate about the current version of the TypePad iPhone app," you ask? Well, how 'bout the fact that I have to make a choice whether to lose the post that I'm working on versus respond to an SMS from my wife! You got it: there's no frackin' SAVE button!!!

There is a PUBLISH button, however. I wonder what that does? Well, why don't I push it now and see whether this post is published or just saved. Either way, I think the app at least needs a Save button. In fact, now that iPhone 3.1 software is out, it would really be NICE if Six Apart gave the app some love.

I really hope they have some great features in the works - especially now that the WordPress iPhone 2.0 app is nearing release... ;-)