"The Internet is about to get a whole lot more collaborative," said Brian Heater in PC Magazine, "at least if Google has anything to say about it." The search and software giant is introducing a new feature, Sidewiki, that lets users post information or highlight text on any Web page. And it's releasing Sidewicki as a feature on the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox.
"It's unclear if the service will really deliver a lot of value," said Ryan Paul in Ars Technica. "After surfing around the Internet with it for a short while and looking at the annotations that have already been posted on popular websites, I have yet to see any that are really useful or substantive." Maybe most users just don't know what to post yet, so the quality of the Sidewiki content could get better.
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