Search Results for tagging
Raytheon employees love to tag URLs
Say what you will about evil-empire death merchants Raytheon - it turns out they
are a great example of corporate web taggers! David Weinberger points today to
a fascinating wiki for the Taxonomy Community of Practice where there's a great article about Raytheon's practice of letting employees submit URLs with tags that company
librarians quickly vet with an easy hand and then add to search results. They love it! Company librarian
explains after the jump. ...
AJAXian Meta-search for tags: Keotag
Another gem from eHub today, Keotag is
a beautiful, multi-functional search engine that finds items tagged with your search term in 14 different tagging
systems (Technorati, del.icio.us, shadows, 43 things, etc.). Search results are returned quickly and displayed
with a very nice AJAX interface. There isn't support for Flickr or other photosharing apps, nor for video apps
that support tagging, but it is so smooth and fast that I'll be probably be using this instead of TagCentral from now on. See also the tag creation function for your
blog posts. Now if only they'd turn this into a bookmarklet or blummy plug-in. Systems like this are notoriously fly-by-night, but this one has AJAX, pastel colors and rounded corners.
So it's gotta be for real, right? ...
Tag fiction, tag art?
I read this post about using tags and tag
clouds to compose tag poetry and tag fiction — the gist of it seems to be that there is a surprising lack of this type
of usage of tags. I figure there must be folks out there exploring alternative and artistic uses for tags? Please post
a comment if you're working on such a project or know someone who is. Here's one cool idea from the
Flickr folk — make your
event invite out of weighted tags. ...
Tag tips
Wired has an article today on tagging tips
from "top taggers" (everyone really will get their 15 minutes, I swear), which I found amusing because I don't follow
any of the suggestions. E.g., "it is better to combine a lot of simple tags than to dream up complicated new ones" —
oops. I'm guilty of employing excessively hyphenated tags. Also, "I try not to overlap tags which have the same
meaning" — again, guilty as charged. I'll tag "blog," "blogs," "blogging," and "blogosphere"... for the same link, more
often than not. "Picking keywords likely to be already used by other del.icio.us users" is a good tip. How many of you
employ any of these tag practices? How many even have a conscious "tag practice"? Have you got other tips and tricks
the rest of us wannabe top taggers might find useful (we're the indie rock tagger equivalent, yo!)? ...
Tags for two
It sounds like del.icio.us-ing while pregnant, but it's really a
new feature rolled out by Joshua Schachter and co.
It works like this: if you come across a link you think one of your cohorts might like, you can send it to a special
"sent by others" inbox by tagging it for:username. To check out what others have sent to you, go to
del.icio.us/for/ which, via the magic of cookies, will take you to your "inbox
from others" (assuming you're already logged in). Folks have been using ad hoc methods of doing this already, but this
is an official implementation of the concept.
There's some concern about potential spam abuse of
this feature (let's table the larger discussion of
tag spam for a future post…). A couple of
suggestions have been made in response:
Give the user the ability to turn this feature off.
Provide a "report spam" link next to each link in the "for" inbox — much the way
Gmail handles this. If a particular user is reported as spam
multiple ...
Amazon using tags
You're it! notes that Amazon has
incorporated tagging into its interface. You can tag the items you view, see how others have tagged them, and return a
bunch of options by browsing your tags, such as other items with that tag, other customers using that tag, what other
tags those folks are using, et cetera. Nobody seems to be quite sure how new this is — does anyone know? By default all
your tagging is public, but you can make some or all of your tags private in your "Manage Your Tags" area. It's no
secret that I generally welcome our new tagging overlords, so this could prove an addictive new way to find new items
and spend money I don't have on exorbitant Amazon orders. Thanks, Amazon… I think…
[Via David Chartier] ...
IMDb adds tags
Thanks to Marc for the
pointer to the news that the
Internet Movie Database has added tagging to their movie search interface. It's a
good excuse to take an informal poll on your feelings on tagging — falling victim to the
false consensus effect I tend to
imagine most other social software nerds are as down with tagging as I am — perhaps not so. Are there folks out there
who see no utility in tagging? There's also this popular tendency to imagine tagging and formal taxonomy at odds, but
I'm of the mind that the two can co-exist and complement each other. Agree? Disagree? Thoughts? ...
Flickr TagFight!
This is great — Nils K. Windisch (aka netomer) has made yet another
clever Flickr API application that compares the frequency of two tags and
presents the results with a selection of photos from that tag.
FlickrTagFight definitively shows, I'm happy to report, that
goofy solidly trounces
surly at 2390 to 166, even with the apparent skew factor of someone's
bicycle named "surly." Go, goofy!
[Via Download Squad] ...
Tag, you're it
This morning I was reading Ross Mayfield's
Tagging in the
Enterprise—where Ross 'tags' a couple of PC Forum highlights from the Roundtable on User-generated Metadata as
particulary memorable.
Yesterday, I gave a presentation at The Yale Club in NYC for Edelman
Interactive where I was talking about how more and more people are tagging their environs.
This 'tagging ' phenomenon is large on many levels.
Typically software engineers build software that they think will send their users into fits of ecstatic delight over
how well it suits their needs. Seldom happens. And, then marketing and public relations professionals do something
similar in targeting their gorgeous campaigns, brochures, commercials, branding, packaging, etc. and sometimes missing
their mark(et).
Now there is this godzilla-sized 'focus group' called that Internet where online social software users have the
opportunity to 'tag' their universe—finger paint their ...
Tagging as a Social Phenomenon
We've talked about
tagging in general and
Del.icio.us in
particular.
Links are the best—I am finding, gardening, growing, weeding, and pruning them daily. Sharing them constantly, real
time, via IM, email, and blogs.
I still want my links, photos, friends, recommendations, reviews, presentations, peer review papers, ideas, concepts,
etc to be shared right through my fully aggregated, fully tabbed, low-profile IM-centric environment. I want to click
on a name and see what's new with my friends, family members or business cohorts without even bothering them.
Ubiquitous connections between what i post, tag, mark, and find at Flickr,
Del.icio.us,
Technorati Tags, Furl, Spurl, CiteULike, Connnotea, etc. I
want explicit permissions. Let me be private to certain people, anonymous to some, and available to others at the
'thing' level—images, photos, documents, links, etc.
What do you want? Are you getting what you want and/or need with any of the currently ...
Tagzania = maps tags
It
only seems logical there would be a collaborative effort to add a folksonomy component to world mapping — enter Tagzania. Whereas 43places is more travel-oriented, focused on
photos and user experience and stories of places, Tagzania makes use of the Google maps API to actually add tags to the
maps themselves — so you can set a waypoint and tag it up. Each waypoint then becomes a "page" with an
RSS feed, to track what other users add over time. All content submitted becomes open content under a Creative Commons
ShareAlike license. [Via Smartmobs] ...
TagCamp 2005
danah turned me on
to Tagcamp, the folksonomists' answer to
Barcamp and Foocamp. It's going to be
happening Friday, October 28, 2005 - Saturday, October 29, 2005 in Palo Alto, CA at CommerceNet
(map). I'm gonna be there — let's talk about tags, baby! Put your name
on the wiki if you'll be attending! ...
Visualizing shared metadata: the tag landscape
Let's talk about tags, baby. While some continue to debate the usefulness of tag-based folksonomies, others are
starting to build abstraction layers on top of a growing body of user-tagged data. Java and flash-based tools are
beginning to emerge that visually map the relationships between tags, as well as exploring the relationships between
users themselves. ...
Continue reading Visualizing shared metadata: the tag landscape
tRuTag aggregates your tags from multiple sites
Jamal Hansen has developed a Ruby on Rails application that
aggregates your tags from a good subset of the tagging sites to which you belong — currently supporting
Flickr, del.icio.us,
My Web 2.0, 43
Things, 43 Places, Jots, Dinnerbuzz, Tagzania, and Unalog. It presents the results in a tag cloud,
alongside a selection list of "output" sites such that selecting a site and clicking a tag will take you to the tag
page on that site. The idea is to cluster your tags by idea as opposed to by site, with an aim towards perceiving the
"big picture" as opposed to isolated clusters on individual sites. Although I'm not actually convinced that my Flickr
tags capture my ideas in the same way as the tags I use on del.icio.us or My Web 2.0, I'm fascinated by the interface
and the ease of navigating quickly to tag areas on multiple sites.
[Via del.icio.us/tag/tagging] ...
Digital Duchamp: tagging as readymade art
Not too long ago I was wondering about
tagging as art, and here we go — Carlos
Katastrofsky's project proposes the concept of
"tagging as owning," or tagging as readymade art. The project asks taggers at large to identify a site (the more you
like it, the better) and tag it as an "interactive readymade by Carlos Katastrofsky." This act transforms you into the
owner of an online readymade co-created by you and Katastrofsky. The simple act of signing, in true Duchamp style,
turns tagging into a performative piece. It also happens to turn it into a great promotional vehicle for Carlos
Katastrofsky but hey, everybody's gotta get their 15 minutes, right? ;) ...
