Why You Should Use Stephen Fry's Pushnote

16.01.2011

So, that's all the good news -- particularly for socially oriented consumers. Though Safari and Opera users are not yet included, support for those browsers may well be on the way

For businesses, Pushnote's implications aren't yet entirely clear. One fairly significant downside is that comments made with the service apparently can't be edited or deleted in the current version, which is bad news for any company that's been unfairly reviewed or criticized by a Pushnote user. It's actually a problem for finger-tied typists, too--if you make a typo, there's currently no way to correct it. I wouldn't be surprised if this aspect changes in not too long.

I should also note that to even see Pushnote comments, businesses will have to download the plug-in themselves.

Pushnote clearly removes a significant degree of control from the hands of companies large and small--after all, they can no longer moderate, edit or remove comments true or untrue left about their companies on any site across the Web, including their own--not to mention potentially removing comments-generating traffic to their own sites, which could have a whole world of separate revenue implications.

Nevertheless, it seems to me there could be opportunities here as well.