TAG: tags
New del.icio.us feature: "For any of your tags, you can now add a public title and description to appear at the top of the page. It may just be to remind yourself of what it is or to tell others more about it."
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tagging vs. cataloging: what it's all about
"So, tagging has brought metadata to the masses, thanks to both its ease of use as well as its clear value."
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"Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results."
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Facets of Facets, Tagclouds And Trust
"As we develop a literacy for tagclouds, they let us peek inside a person’s mind. We get more out of these clouds than just an idea of a person’s reading- and classifying habits. Tagclouds are inspiring. They contain hints."
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"I say no, tagging isn’t stuck. Just don’t try and make it the primary thing to do. Instead, make sure personal value preceeds network value. Then you’ll have plenty to aggregate."
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"An Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications."
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How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web
How combining the collective knowledge of individuals through tags can create some level of intelligence.
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The guy who made the million dollar homepage is at it again. I hate it when people make a bunch of money doing stuff I could have thought of. Damn them!
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Usable exhaust: The active ingredient of effective social media
"Usable Exhaust: The unintended benefits you or others get out of a service just by using it."
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Amazon, excess and the future of navigation...
"A massive explosion in trustworthy ways of exploring through your data is how you turn a business from a repository or a directory into a web native, 21st century operation."
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A search engine where "Del.icio.us users bookmarking helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) have greater influence on search rankings."
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A cognitive analysis of tagging
" "Or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular"
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"Tags are not organizational innovation they are an interface innovation. The difference between a tag and a category is non existent except that the interface threshold to create a tag is so low that people actually do it regularly."
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How to build on bubble-up folksonomies...
"For me, this is a pretty compelling argument that understanding semantic relationships between concepts makes folksonomic tagging even more exciting"
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"MailTags is a plug-in for Apple's Mail.app 2.0 (Tiger) that enables you to go way beyond folder filing for organizing mail by enabling metadata tagging."
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The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems
"In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects."
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An interview with flickr's eric costello
Jesse James Garrett interviews Eric Costello, the Client Development Lead for Flickr and a prominent web developer.
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Waxy.org: "By collecting aggregate information about bookmarked sites, they'll be able to increase the relevancy of their search results and marginally combat the spam problem."
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"Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds."
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Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...
"So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging."
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"This is an extension to the way, WP handles categories, aimed at making the whole process more “taglike� and adding the ease of use and extensions we have come to expect in tags."
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Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
Clay Shirky's piece on tagging and the future of categorization
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Spotlight Comments using Quicksilver
How to use Quicksilver to add Spotlight comments
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'Tagging' helps unclutter data
Includes my photo. Cool.
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An AppleScript which allows arbitrary tagging of messages in Mail.app.
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Tim Bray Asks The Right Question (And I Try To Answer It)
“Are there any questions you want to ask, or jobs you want to do, where tags are part of the solution, and clearly work better than old-fashioned search?�
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Helps you clean up your del.icio.us tags
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You're It: 'Tags' ease sifting of digital data
"Noah Brier regularly looks for bookmarks tagged "lifehacks"  for everyday productivity tips  and recently ran across an article on better ways to shave."
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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content
"One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the users words are the words on the site!"
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adaptive path: "The Internet has always been a medium for democratization, and by reconnecting with our idealism we’re once again uncovering its poetry, nobility, and transformative power."
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Market populism in the folksonomies debate
Atomiq: "One can be enthusiastic about tags and folksonomies (I am) and still confront the serious problems that face them as a stand-alone tool for organizing information. Turning a blind eye to those problems is what turns strange zeitgeist into irratio
alex wright : "This fundamantal question - are tags useful? - seems to get lost in the ideological shuffle."
Scott Rafer: "Tagging other people's content has value, and tagging one's own content leads directly to spam."
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Tagvertising = Blogging 2.0... Already?
Blog guru Steve Rubel gives us the skinny on folksonomies and tagvertising: the new ways to reach loyal audiences.
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Does tagging provide discernable benefits when individuals tag their content for personal use only?
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Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off
The time-saving trend of "tagging" is luring legions of Web surfers -- and Yahoo!
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"As promised, some huge changes to Upcoming.org! The short list: support for personal and self-promotional events, tagging of events, a complete API, improved visual design, and e-mail/SMS reminders."
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A Greasemonkey script that auto-completes tags for you in del.icio.us
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Ross Mayfield: "One of the most popular sessions at PC Forum was the Roundtable on User-generated Metadata."
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Newsmashing with del.icio.us - y.a.b. (yet another bookmarklet)
Kokogiak: "Add the bookmarklet to your browser, then you can get a look at what del.icio.us users are saying about (or at least how they are tagging) nearly any web page with one click."
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Essentially it looks like del.icio.us with the addition of notes -- which makes a lot of sense
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Folksonomy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess
ETECH conversation with Clay Shirky, Stewart Butterfield, Joshua Schachter and Jimmy Wales
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Another discussion about formalizing the tagging process to correct the problems inherent
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Students Use Tags to Protest Chinese Govt Restrictions on BBSs
Smart Mobs: "This is a very effective way to aggregate "sensitive information" through a distributive process in a politically censored cyberspace ."
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Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories
eWeek: ""There is a behavior around tags that has nothing to do with categorization," Schachter said."
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Do you tag stuff in the most individual way possible, or do you let tags overlap?
A fairly interesting conversation on tagging over at Ask Metafilter
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Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata
Clay Shirky: "The Web's main virtue, in handling data, is to transmute organization from an a priori, content-based judgment to one that can be ad hoc, context-based, socially embedded, and constantly altered."
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New game of tagging may be "it"
Seattle Times: " Categorization fights the tyranny of infoglut. Compare a Google search on folksonomy with the del.icio.us tag and you quickly fathom the advantages of tagging for learning about a given topic."
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Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)
Understanding how the human brain works thanks to tags
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Turns out Robot Co-Op, the makers of 43 Things, has serious Amazon investment money
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Use for:username to tag things for other people
This is a really good idea and I'm subscribing to for:nrb210 right now
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Tagging, the Web's newest game, lets you see what other people are reading and thinking. Welcome to the key-worded universe.
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Wired jumps weighs in on the tagging boom
Technorati brings us tag searching
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Show items with the same tag from both Flickr and del.icio.us
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