I’m playing around with Google Sidewiki which launched last week. It basically allows you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage. It appears as a browser sidebar, where you can read and write entries along the side of the page. So far there’s nothing next to my blog but I’m not exactly surprised… there’s one entry now

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Here’s an example of how it’s used on a more popular site such as TechCrunch.

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To learn more about Google Sidewiki, check out the Google Blog

I’m not sure if this will actually be useful as it looks to be a comment section and when I read articles or look at videos, most comments tend to be either irrelevant to the article or rude, mean, snotty… you get the point.

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So I was lucky enough to attend TechCrunch50 with a client and while I’m doing reports for them I’ve decided to share with you some companies that I found interesting from a consumer point of view. There will be no talk of business models, novel technology, distribution, market penetration, road maps… I’m going to try to keep it simple so that even my mom even understands the company. Without furter ado, here’s the first company.

Story Something – storysomething.com.

I’m hesitant to write about this company right now because they’re still in private beta and if I tell you about a company or service I want you to be able to go try it out right away. This app is basically for really busy parents who would like to still be able to provide their kids with personalized and customized stories. You can either have the stories on the web or have them sent to your iphone. It’s hard for me to know if this type of product will become a big hit, esp. since I don’t have kids, but in my experience as a teacher, new and exciting things are great for keeping a child’s attention and the ability to read the stories on different form factors is cool. This provides another way for parents to spend quality time with their children and  IMHO, a much better option than having them fall asleep to the tv…