Question about Sidewiki

by n00b
3 replies
What happens if you buy or sell a site? Do you get all the sidewiki comments too? So if I develop a site, let's say bestwidgetever.com and someone else buys it, but their widget is different than mine so they redo the site, will the sidewiki comments start over? Or are sidewiki comments permanent? There has to be some way for them to reset.

Also, I see this being a huge legal problem for Google. Let's say I'm a big company and I start losing sales because a user is posting comments that are taking away business. I decide I want to sue the user for libel. Now I go to court and get a subpoena for Google to release the user's info. We all know how much great press Google gets anytime they release private information. Posting untrue negative comments on other sites is a free speech issue, but I really think a company would have a case for libel if someone was posting untrue negative comments on a site and drawing away sales to their own site.
#question #sidewiki
  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    Originally Posted by n00b View Post

    What happens if you buy or sell a site? Do you get all the sidewiki comments too? So if I develop a site, let's say bestwidgetever.com and someone else buys it, but their widget is different than mine so they redo the site, will the sidewiki comments start over? Or are sidewiki comments permanent? There has to be some way for them to reset..
    Nobody knows all these yet. Wait and see how much chaos this sidewiki causes.

    Originally Posted by n00b View Post

    Also, I see this being a huge legal problem for Google.Let's say I'm a big company and I start losing sales because a user is posting comments that are taking away business. I decide I want to sue the user for libel.
    Yeah, looking forward to it. Invading others privacy so much???

    .
    Signature
    Follow up Autoresponder PRO :: 33% Discount!!
    FREE Upgrades! IMPROVED Email Deliverability!!
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1223307].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Marty S
    Originally Posted by n00b View Post

    What happens if you buy or sell a site? Do you get all the sidewiki comments too? So if I develop a site, let's say bestwidgetever.com and someone else buys it, but their widget is different than mine so they redo the site, will the sidewiki comments start over? Or are sidewiki comments permanent? There has to be some way for them to reset.
    The SideWiki comments are not part of your site and are hosted by Google and viewed within the user's own browser. So they will have nothing to do with the transfer of sale, however this is a good question as you may want to change content on a certain page, that was referred specifically to a SideWiki comment.

    My guess right now is that if your URL stays the same, so will SideWiki comments as that is what triggers the display on the user's browser. Changing content will likely have an effect on those SideWiki comments affixed to that very passage. What that effect will be, I don't know because this new Social Media service will likely have some growing pains, given the fury of debates it has fuelled.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1223507].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author jewin
    Does anyone know when Google is releasing the Sidewiki installer for Chrome?
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[1238484].message }}

Trending Topics