So today we launched a brand new version of Kutano that also happens to be the very first Google Sidewiki client ever! And yes, it is ironic that the first client of a web commenting tool is... a web commenting tool, but it really actually makes a lot of sense.
For all intensive purposes, our Twitter tool and client, Kutano, has already been functioning as something of a "SideTwitter", showing tweets about each web page and website directly beside the page and allowing for conversations and comments on the page as well. The idea behind Kutano is to help bring otherwise disjointed tweets to their context where the conversation can emerge and be built upon. And now we are also adding "high quality" comments from Google's Sidewiki into the mix for people to build discussions around.
The advantage of this new addition, aside from being able to collectively view web page related tweets, Sidewiki and Kutano comments in one place, is that Kutano will also allow users to respond to and start interactive discussions around comments made in Sidewiki. Currently, Sidewiki comments are not threaded and there is not yet a way to respond and engage another person that commented on the web page. Additionally, there is not yet a way to have multiple discussion topics on one page. But using Kutano, people will be able to engage in more conversational and topic-varied discussions about each web page using Sidewiki comments as well as existing web page related tweets and Kutano comments. As can already be done with existing Kutano discussions, users will also be able to tweet out entire discussions as well.
Additionally, in the future we hope to allow replies and Kutano comments to feed back into Sidewiki, but currently the Sidewiki API does not allow it.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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