Comments on: Whatever happened to tagging? http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:37:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Why Can’t I Search My Enterprise Data As Well As Google Searches the Internet? (Enterprise Page Rank?) « SmoothSpan Blog http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242351 Why Can’t I Search My Enterprise Data As Well As Google Searches the Internet? (Enterprise Page Rank?) « SmoothSpan Blog Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:57:47 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242351 [...] World Wide Web for this are links and tagging.  Marc Canter and others have recently bemoaned that tagging hasn’t really kept up, so perhaps links are a more preferable mechanism.  Tagging without links is possible, but one [...] [...] World Wide Web for this are links and tagging.  Marc Canter and others have recently bemoaned that tagging hasn’t really kept up, so perhaps links are a more preferable mechanism.  Tagging without links is possible, but one [...]

]]> By: Web 2.0 Personality Types « SmoothSpan Blog http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242324 Web 2.0 Personality Types « SmoothSpan Blog Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:30:48 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242324 [...] wants to get involved.  Perhaps the involvement is fairly passive: they’d like to tag the information or attach private comments to it for their own use.  Perhaps they keep a book mark on [...] [...] wants to get involved.  Perhaps the involvement is fairly passive: they’d like to tag the information or attach private comments to it for their own use.  Perhaps they keep a book mark on [...]

]]> By: Matt Mower http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242320 Matt Mower Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:32:34 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242320 Hi Marc. I realise it's your word to choose but I'd like to think I was less moaning about the state of tagging and more puzzled, yet happy because there is still so much undiscovered country to explore. David: I was not arguing that tagging hasn't become vastly more prevalent than it was in 2003/4. It has and Technorati has clearly been a big part of that. No my argument is that tagging doesn't seem to have become vastly more useful than it was in 2003/4. But if the tools have not kept up with the data that's nobody's fault, just a great big opportunity :-) Hi Marc. I realise it’s your word to choose but I’d like to think I was less moaning about the state of tagging and more puzzled, yet happy because there is still so much undiscovered country to explore.

David: I was not arguing that tagging hasn’t become vastly more prevalent than it was in 2003/4. It has and Technorati has clearly been a big part of that. No my argument is that tagging doesn’t seem to have become vastly more useful than it was in 2003/4.

But if the tools have not kept up with the data that’s nobody’s fault, just a great big opportunity :-)

]]> By: David Sifry http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242319 David Sifry Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:01:12 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242319 Whaaa? Marc, Tagging has ALWAYS been totally open. all it takes is rel="tag". That's it. Technorati created a namespace that people could use if they wanted to, but a thousand flowers have bloomed. Look at wordpress.com - they created their own namespace at wordpress.com/tags , Look at Techcrunch, they did it too. Heck, look at The New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/patent-litigation/ So, um, you can leave off on the personal attacks. Thanks, it's noted, but irrelevant. Over 250 million tagged posts have been created, and that was at last check, about 6 months ago. I'd say it's been pretty darned successful. Dave Whaaa?

Marc, Tagging has ALWAYS been totally open. all it takes is rel=”tag”. That’s it. Technorati created a namespace that people could use if they wanted to, but a thousand flowers have bloomed. Look at wordpress.com - they created their own namespace at wordpress.com/tags , Look at Techcrunch, they did it too. Heck, look at The New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/patent-litigation/

So, um, you can leave off on the personal attacks. Thanks, it’s noted, but irrelevant.

Over 250 million tagged posts have been created, and that was at last check, about 6 months ago. I’d say it’s been pretty darned successful.

Dave

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242315 Stephen Downes Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:59:01 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/08/whatever-happened-to-tagging#comment-242315 Or, it could be, that when I criticized tagging a couple of years ago at Northern Voice, I was right. http://www.downes.ca/post/14 Or, it could be, that when I criticized tagging a couple of years ago at Northern Voice, I was right. http://www.downes.ca/post/14

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