If you are a Firefox or IE user and have the Google toolbar installed you can now use Sidewiki. It will eventually be built into to Google Chrome (the browser not the OS) but for now you are limited to IE and FF. This is a tool by Google that allows comments to made about any page on the internet. The upside to this is that you can now comment on pages where comments are not allowed (i.e. news articles, blogs with no comments or where comments are closed). The downside is that if they are being made on your site you have no control over them. No ability to edit or even block it from working on your page. You may want to monitor it in case you have a competitor, unhappy customer, or just a troll adding nasty comments.
If you want to see it, first make sure you have the toolbar installed. If you don't see the button download the newest toolbar and you should see it. You may have to answer a few questions about your privacy and then you will see the button. When you click on the button designated by the arrow your screen should look like the one below.
You can then enter a title and a comment on that page. If you have Google profile like mine (Chris Johnston's Google profile) the comments you make in Sidewiki will be displayed there. Who know if this will take off or not, but with Google behind it wouldn't vote against it. Whether you like it or not you need to be aware of it and monitor it to see what people are saying about your sites.
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