BIT320 Remix — tagging
December 9, 2005
Yahoo thinks Del.icio.us is…..well…delicious
Topics: Opinionslug del.icio.us tag tagging tags yahoo
Yahoo the internet giant recently purchased Del.icio.us for an undisclosed amount of money this Friday. Similar to Yahoo’s recent acquisitions of Flickr, and Upcoming.org Yahoo is trying to generate more mass appeal and the sharing of knowledge and information. This article from Wired News explains the reasoning behind the purchase
During the past year, Yahoo has been adding more tools that promote sharing among friends and family as it battles for web traffic with its biggest rivals — Google, Microsofts MSN and Time Warner’s AOL. All of them are trying to widen their internet audiences so they can make more money from steadily increasing volume of online advertising.
Each of us are in fact 1 of 300,000 current users of Del.icio.us, and I’m sure we will see much growth now that it is part of the Yahoo network. I really hope this takes off. I know that there are so many times, that I wanted to pass a link of to my friends, and if this gain more appeal it would really help me share links. Unfortunately for the owner of Del.icio.us the transaction was “so small that it won’t impact Yahoo’s financials”.
In SuperMatt, 12/09/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati
December 6, 2005
A terrible site with good programmers
Topics: Opinionslug tag tagging tags
A popular site that I have heard of for college students is called CollegeHumor.com. This website is terribly inappropriate, uncensored, and irreverent. Therefore, I warn you before you enter that there is a high probability that you could be offended by some if not all of the content. In fact, I personally do not like the site because it makes college students seem one dimensional. So what does this have to do with Bit320? Well a major reason why students go to this website is to view pictures that other students have submitted. Most of the time, they involve anything from the college experience to funny or ironic pictures of celebrates and politicians. One thing I have noticed is their recent addition of tags and tag clouds to the pictures section. For example if you encounter a picture that has George W. Bush, there will most likely be a tag called Bush which you can click on to view pictures of him. The tags in the site make it much more navigable. And it leads me to wonder if one of the most unrefined websites in the world is offer such convenience why isn’t everyone doing the same?
In SuperMatt, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati
Tag Clouds in our Blogs
Topics: Opinionslug Technology WordPress blog blogging remixing tag tagging tags weblogs
Blog tags are annoying yet important for our Bit320 Remix site. They are important because with the remixing site always updating and new content always being added it is important to have a good organization system. At the same time it is annoying because it is hard to see what others are tagging in their post. This is the system I have created to make my life easier. When brainstorming a blog idea I normally go to the class Remixing site. When I find interesting content or questions I would like to answer, I each of these posts in new tabs (I love the tabbing function in FireFox). I also open up my wordpress in a tab. When I am writing my blog I frequently look back at the other blog to get the address, copy a quote, and finally see which topics they posted under. I almost always copy the posts categorizes then add more if I feel it is necessary or I took their post in a new direction. I often then have to go back to the Community Engine, to see what other tags have been used to try to make it consistant. What normally happend (like what will happen when I post this blog) is that I will have multiple tags for the same topic (tagging, tag, tags). Of course, it would be easier, more consistent, and faster to have tag clouds, but as Bud talked about in class it was not convenient for us to have them this semester. Plus if we did have them, it would be one less thing to blog about.
In SuperMatt, 12/06/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati
December 3, 2005
How to build on bubble-up folksonomies... (plasticbag.org)
Topics: aggregation folksonomy tagging
A nice practicum on using domain knowledge + user input to create business directed folksonomies. Suggests at the end of the post that knowledge workers are essentially going to become data analysts.
In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 12/03/2005 | Original | Archive
November 15, 2005
HP Labs : Research: Information Dynamics Lab
Topics: CoranteSSA business folksonomy tagging
A paper Jude found on tagging and mentioned by Liz Lawley at Corante SSA.
In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/15/2005 | Original | Archive
October 6, 2005
Bokardo » Blog Archive » Web2Con: Popularity Decay in Tagging
Topics: design folksonomy tagging
"The idea of popularity decay illustrates the tension between new ideas and popular ideas. Both are valuable, but not at the expense of the other." I like this idea of tags evolving over time. Not sure about the implementations he cites.
In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/06/2005 | Original | Archive
September 15, 2005
Search: Big indexes versus microformats
Topics: microformats remixing social tagging
Makes the point that adding metadata like tags and microformats needs to be ridiculously easy.
In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/15/2005 | Original | Archive
September 14, 2005
Socialmarks.com - Social Bookmarking. Social RSS/Atom Feed Syndication. Automated Trend Discovery.
Topics: remixing syndication tagging
Should we be doing this instead of the Learning Remix?
In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/14/2005 | Original | Archive
August 25, 2005
apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through (danah boyd)
Topics: communityCreation tagging weblogs
"Social bookmarking is different than blogging and mixing the two is cruel to users."
In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 08/25/2005 | Original | Archive
