15 month ago
plasticbag : Post one: A protest that the state of the art in tagging hasn't progressed enormously in the last four years. - Now here's a confession. I spent quite a lot of last year working around tags and I'm just a bit unsure how much of it I can talk about. It's all very aggravating. The project didn't launch.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Phil wrote a month or so back on haddock's directory ceasing to publish its internal link log... - We've been having conversations around it again recently, trying to work out if there's any useful way to bring it back without killing everyone or whether to do so would be a waste of time. Inspired me to some good thinking, either way...
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22 month ago
Andy Baio : Flickr quietly launches machine tag support - the possibilities here are kinda mind-bending
kellan : Machine Tags: They live! They live! - Machine Tags: They live! They live!. Machine tags are not RDF. But they could play RDF on television. #
Simon Willison : Flickr Machine Tags - Flickr Machine Tags. A new feature for API developers that lets them stuff arbritrary namespaced key/value pairs in to tags and query them using the API. Even without range queries, this will enable a ton of exciting new third party developments.
plasticbag : Flickr's introduced the concept of machine tags for everyone to start playing with - Ooh. Classy. Nice. All kinds of things can be built off the back of this. I'm just starting to get my head around the possibilities, although it's probably worth noting that I'm not necessarily sufficiently qualified to get the best view...
joshua : flickr rolls out "machine tags" - like system:has: in delicious i guess
jimray : Machine tags on Flickr - Add more metadata to your photos via tags. All backend/API jiggerypockery for now, but this will be cool.
Nelson Minar : Structured Flickr tags - Machine tags are triples: namespace, keyword, value
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Webb has relaunched his 'dirk' project on the interconnectedness of all things - I remember this from the first time around when he launched it in 1996 and promoted it on Lance Arthur's glassdog.net webnerd artistic community. This time I believe it's built on Ruby on Rails. If you think about it, it's sort of a proto-anti-tagging...
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30 month ago
plasticbag : The new version of Yahoo! My Web launched a couple of days ago - I know some of the people who worked on this, and they're really awesome - and this is an enormous step forward in My Web functionality...
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35 month ago
Philippe Janvier : expialidocio.us - "...fun to watch, once !" [via] #
plasticbag : expialidocio.us is a flash interface for viewing your personal del.icio.us tagcloud for any given period of time - It kind of choked on the sheer number of tags I have, but still pretty cool. What I really want to see is a Flickr-style top 50 tags but animated over time, so I can see new words appearing and disappearing in response to news stories and my interests...
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35 month ago
Andy Baio : Extra Tasty - Drinking 2.0 from the Threadless crew
plasticbag : My favourite new Social Software enterprise is the beautiful and well-developed extratasty.com! - For sheer class, check out the submit a recipe page - all the ingredients come from a controlled vocabulary, are translated automatically into tags, and it even writes the recipe for you as you submit each component. Plus you can register on the creation
Rod Begbie : Extratasty - Get Your Booze On! - Cunningly designed cocktail guide from the folks behind Threadless. Enter the contents of your "bar" and let it recommend recipes to lubricate your speedy descent into inebriation. [via] #
jimray : Extratasty - Getting drunk goes Web2.0, courtesy of the folks who brought you Threadless
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!: yahoo buys del.icio.us
Andy Baio : Yahoo! acquires Del.icio.us - everyone I know now works at Yahoo
jkottke : Yahoo! buys del.icio.us - Yahoo! buys del.icio.us...muxway is all growed up. There's an interesting story in here somewhere about how Yahoo! is hiring/buying the "alpha geeks" (hackers, tinkerers, accidental entrepreneurs) and Google seemingly isn't (Ph.Ds, computer scientists) an
jimray : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - Wow
erikbenson : Yahoo buys del.icio.us. Nice! - Congratulations, Joshua.
Linkorama : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - I just thought I would link to it and add every recommended tag. Congrats Josh!
Paul Hammond : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family
kayodeok : del.icio.us: y.ah.oo! - We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community
Philippe Janvier : del.icio.us : y.ah.oo ! - Après Flickr, Yahoo achète Del.icio.us. La fin du web tel que l'on a pu le connaître ces trois dernières années. Qui sera le prochain ? [via] #
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37 month ago
deusx : Folksonomy Definition and Wikipedia :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net - "...I realize the definition of Folksonomy has become completely unglued from anything I recognize..."
Linkorama : Folksonomy Definition and Wikipedia - They are one of the best collaboration tools around, they even work very well for personal uses. But, like anything else it takes understanding on how to use them and use the information in them.
znarf : Folksonomy Definition and Wikipedia - > Today, having seen an new academic endeavor related to folksonomy quoting the Wikipedia entry on folksonomy and I realize the definition of Folksonomy has become completely unglued from anything I recognize [via] #
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph talks "Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists" - We've been having enormous fun at work at the moment experimenting with semantic network effects at the level of services. Totally worth a read this. Tip of the ice-berg...
Paul Hammond : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - an impressive result that comes at zero cost
kellan : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - I think we're starting to reach a tipping point of sufficient semi-structured data on the web. #
philgyford : Hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - Matt Biddulph doing clever stuff. Would be good to try this with some Pepys stuff I think.
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Semi-structured meta-data has a posse - You could make a lot of money or win a lot of bar bets when thinking about the digital realm if you compare technologies between hard or easy, rigorous or sloppy, sophisticated or naïve, expensive or cheap, professional or amateur, and then bet on the
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41 month ago
kayodeok : del.icio.us: tags for two - "We've just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use "for:username" where username is the name of the user you want to send the item to"
deusx : del.icio.us: tags for two - 'We've just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use "for:username" where username is the name of the user you want to send the item to.'
Philippe Janvier : Tags for two - Une nouvelle fonctionalité de del.icio.us qui permet de signaler un bookmark à un autre utilisateur du service. [via] #
plasticbag : Del.icio.us start experimenting with the ability for someone to tag things for other people using a kind of for: tag - My first reaction is that we should stop designing systems that will be spammed if they're useful, but I might be being unfair...
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43 month ago
plasticbag : Awesome real-world installation built with Flickr that does interesting things with mobile phones and tags... - "Mobile phone or internet social networks by means of visual communication linked through mob tags and or keywords... what?!"
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44 month ago
Andy Baio : Code snippets for implementing tags with SQL - this will come in handy for Upcoming's tag support
jkottke : Code snippets for working with tags and SQL
philgyford : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - Enormously handy SQL snippets for doing del.icio.us/Flickr style tagging.
Paul Hammond : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - you no longer have any excuse for building a sub-par tagging system.
jimray : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - Implement tags in SQL - handy
deusx : LaughingMeme: In Lieu of the Promised Article on Tags and SQL - "There you go, you no longer have any excuse for building a sub-par tagging system."
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46 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Biddulph's del.icio.us tag stemmer reveals how redundant many of my tags are - Which no doubt will give Mr Schachter even more ammunition for his occasional stern eyebrows in my direction
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47 month ago
Andy Baio : Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later - unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts
plasticbag : Now even Metafilter is using tags - by the time we're talking about our work in this area I wonder if it'll still be fashionable? - The implementation here though is a bit odd - you can only tag stuff that you've written, and there doesn't appear to be any immediate personal benefit for doing so, except maybe self-promotion...
ricmac : Metafilter DoesTags - It's a tagalicious blog world right now... glad to see "ART" is the biggest tag on Metafilter. (via waxy.org)
cameron : Metafilter | Tags - Metafilter gets categorizionized
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plasticbag : Big news of the day is Technorati's new implementation of tags and hooks into del.icio.us and Flickr - Don't know what I think about this one yet - haven't quite digested it. I think its success basically depends on SixApart moving towards something like a default tagging rather than categories interface for MT...
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47 month ago
plasticbag : The shape of my brain as of January 2005 - Make sure to check out the shape of other people's brains by visiting the group (bottom right of page)
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47 month ago
Andy Baio : Adam Mathes' thesis on Folksonomies - Adam should build tags into Organizine! [via] [via]
plasticbag : Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata by Adam Mathes - Relatively classic article now about folksonomies and cooperative classification that I'm rereading.
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plasticbag : BBC press release about Radio stats - mentions our podcasting trial - The podcasting trial of 'In Our Time' that Mr Webb's been pointing to over at his site gets a good positive push by esteemed leader, Simon Nelson...
Simon Willison : BBC Radio mp3 takes off - It seems the podcasting trial has been going pretty well.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph writes about deli.cio.us for XML.com - Del.icio.us and tag-based structures like Flickr are still interesting the hell out of me - mainly because of the possibility of the sudden creation of a completely new layer of information worth mining and manipulating.
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plasticbag : Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music from Community Metadata (pdf) - This is nice - a paper on using particular parts of speech from web pages about artists to create a metric of artist similarity. Think about the stuf you could use delicious tags to do!
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plasticbag : The RSS weblog's summary of add-ons, plug-ins and toys that interact with del.icio.us - Includes Konfabulator, Wetaste.com, Foxylicious, sid.vicio.us (did not understand this one) and several others
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plasticbag : Kevan's extisp.icio.us visualisation of my del.icio.us links - I'm only really linking to this because I seem to be trying to show it to someone every couple of days and this way I'll get to it more easily. Plus I've now been using del.icio.us for a while and the tag patterns are starting to emerge...
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