Warrior forum member has already designed a SideWiki blocker.

Warrior forum member has already designed a SideWiki blocker.

Well with all the hyper-scare chatter of impending internet doom because of Google's new SideWiki, you could well imagine this would be coming in a hurry - Software designers creating blockers to SideWiki comments for webmasters to use.

As a designer, you have to get around the (seemingly moderate) challenge of the Google tool bar and it's users. That apparently was no challenge for this quick-thinking programmer - "While I don't want to disclose exactly how this tool works, I can say it's dead simple to install on any kind of static or dynamic website, Linux and Windows hosted, and it produces no extra load to your site.

What's more, it doesn't block access to your site for those that have the toolbar installed. They can still see and interact with your site, they can even add their own Sidewiki comments..."

This entrepreneur goes on to say: "You must have a website (any kind will do), and you must be willing to install this tool on your site following my instructions. All you have to do to install it is upload a file I will supply and change a single line of code in each of your site pages.

It does work with static HTML pages, with PHP pages, with blogs and pretty much anything. Including ASP."

Now obviously this is great for those webmasters who are on a burning fury right now about this SideWiki thing. At the very least, the community will likely have some effect on this product as the outrage is simply too large to negotiate right now.

But what if it is here to stay as is? There is also the notion that the users of SideWiki will be users, if not for anything else than the slick, non-obtrusive design of the tool bar. Those users will be reading SideWiki comments on (most) new websites they visit. How are they going to feel when your page has blocked them from what they feel is valuable information? Well, how do you feel about a business that will go out of their way to block information about themselves? Suspicious, right?