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A Thought on Bundles Before Bed
I just found out about the bundles feature on del.icio.us. Essentially it allows you to bundle a number of tags together and create something of a tagweb. Needless to say o ...
April 1, 2005 |
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Categories, Tags and Blogs
I just got finished reading Clay Shirky's new piece on tagging titled, "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". It's a good piece, not groundbreaking I didn't think, but wo ...
May 17, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Google + Del.icio.us = Search Context
I very randomly ran across this DM News article about adding context to search results and thought I'd share. (I was actually at a photo shoot and told to look busy, ...
June 15, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Idea: Tags as a Way to Add Context to a Search
Today I was reading a Seattle Times article about search and I ran across this quote: See how long it takes to find the top five university marine-biol ...
May 3, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Is Tagging Really Useful?
Today seems to be tag day. Now it's time to answer an essential question of tagging: Are tags really useful? The question was brought up by Tim Bray (which I found via <a hr ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Next Generation Tagging
Scott Rafer and the Feedster crew are at it again. This time they've come up with a way to add a form to any post that allows any user to tag an individual entry ...
May 24, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
On the Tagging Divide
Over at Plasticbag.org, Tom Coates has an interesting hypothesis on the shift in tagging from a filing to an annota ...
June 7, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Tagging Blog Posts
If you ask me, Jonas Luster has come up with the killer tagging app for blogs. tags4WP is a WordPress plugin ...
June 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Tagging: Individual or Social?
Are tags an individual or a social thing? This is the question that Arienna of Blogaholics and I have been going back and forth on in the comments of my "Annotating Flickr with a Side of Social Ne ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Tags: Just an Interface Innovation?
I meant to write up this great entry on tagging when I read it last week. Unfortunately I didn't have time, but now I do and better late than never, right? The e ...
September 16, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The Value of Technorati Tags
I like to think that I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong (clearly not true). While I don't necessarily think I ever came out and said it, I have had trouble understanding the value of Technorati tags. I ne ...
August 12, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS