Sidewiki Alert! Urgent!
The following article is borrowed courtesy Steven Wagenheim.
URGENT – Sidewiki Can KILL Your Business
The war has started and it’s going to be an ugly one. I can see the lawsuits a mile away. I am writing this, knowing full well that it may not even get published at any article directories for fear of repercussions from Google, to warn you that your site, your business, is at SERIOUS risk. I am talking about the new Sidewiki toolbar which has already been responsible for vicious attacks on several sites.
If you’re not familiar with Sidewiki, it is essentially a simple application. The web surfer downloads the Sidewiki toolbar. After they do, any site they visit, the toolbar will appear on the left hand side of the site itself in the same window. On this toolbar, visitors to your site can post their comments. Then, anybody who goes to visit your site can see those comments posted.
On the surface, this would seem innocuous enough. But in the wrong hands, this could become a deadly tool, as I have already witnessed. There is nothing from stopping a competitor from viewing your site and leaving a comment such as, “This person is a scam artist. Do not buy anything from them.” Then, any visitor who has the toolbar installed will see that comment. This can potentially destroy a person’s business if a mass attack is coordinated.
The problem I have with this whole application is that it is essentially giving Google the right to display adds and opinions DIRECTLY on your site WITHOUT your approval. It’s one thing if somebody goes to a forum or discussion group and makes a comment about your site. It’s another one for somebody to come to YOUR site and see such comments.
This should NOT be tolerated. I am thereby asking every Internet marketer and home business owner to write to Google and tell them that you are against Sidewiki. Contact some of the major online companies, such as Amazon and explain to them what kind of damage this toolbar can do to THEIR business. With enough muscle behind us, we can put a stop to Sidewiki.
Please do not take this lightly. This is as serious as it gets. It is no different from somebody coming to your restaurant and spraying graffiti all over your walls telling people not to eat there.
In my signature, you will find a link where you can contact Google about Sidewiki.
To YOUR Success,
Steven Wagenheim
Don’t want to see your business destroyed? Go to http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/request.py?contact_type=feedback and tell Google what you think of Sidewiki and that you want it taken down.
I have to agree whole heartedly. Sidewiki is a pandoras box that Google has just opened.
Please visit this PETITION TO KILL SIDEWIKI as well.
This blog has installed a Sidewiki Blocker.
To learn more, please join in on the discussion at The Warrior Forum.
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My Identity Crisis
I am what I am.
It appears that yet again Nancy at Chilled White Whine has been attacked. This time I fear it could be one of our own. Nancy may have deleted these comments, and I understand if she has.
If you are going to make accusations, you should first be sure to read the evidence you have collected, and take it a step further if you can by collecting a bit more evidence.
So many people are here to help you in the Kimkins case.
I have been accused again of things that are not true. It’s not a matter of my feeling getting hurt but more a matter of the spread of misinformation that will slow things down.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. I have absolutely no anger against anyone who is really doing what they can to help the cause.
Just because there may be a letter on here showing an interaction I had with someone, there is nothing illegal in that letter and the end result of that letter actually was a good thing. It resulted in a disclaimer being added to Amy of Eatinglow’s website that she does not endorse Kimkins – and upon my just visiting her site it appears she no longer needs it as she has edited the video! Bravo Amy!
I sincerely appreciate that Amy. I do know what a pain in the behind that kind of work can be and how time consuming it is. I’ll be sending Amy a personal letter of gratitude for her efforts, and a thank you for stopping by LCF the other day. In addition, I will unpublish the letters I wrote to her.
How’s that anonymous?
Now if you would like to lump me in with people who’s “behaviour is essentially tampering with witnesses and evidence in the suit against Heidi Diaz.” then please tell me what it is that I have done exactly so I can stop doing it. I have never tampered with evidence or witnesses, I have stated opinions perhaps, but your claims are unfounded.
You on the other hand anonymous are a big problem. You need to address those who you have a problem with. You need to learn to stand up for what is right. You need to stop spreading information that is incorrect – and I have a really good question for you, but it will be addressed on another blog. YOU from what I currently understand know some information based on your post of something that happened before it happened. YOU now concern me.
I have screen shots as well as video of your comment left on Nancy’s blog. I will not use them unless I need to. Leave Nancy out of this you coward. Come over here and tell me what you really think. I dare you.
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So, you’ve decided on a topic that you feel is important. You have a topic for your blog. Do you allow comments to be left? Read more
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