Posts Tagged with ‘tags’

Tags have long been an integral feature of many web 2.0 services and, although some believe that tagging may be having a negative effect on the drive towards the semantic web, the use of tags has continued to spread. For example, Wordpress 2.3 (the latest version of the popular blogging platform) now includes tagging support by default, without any plugin.
But what about existing blogs that never had tags previously, but would like to add them. Going through each post [...]

Another big presence on the Web is starting to get social. Its selling point: its proximity to the goings on of Wall Street.
MarketWatch, a significant finance-centric presence on the Internet, held under the dominion of Dow Jones (now a Murdoch-owned kingdom), is announcing its beta of a new site. It is one that will operate parallel to its news pages, and one which puts “community” members in charge of deciding what’s hot and what’s not (apologies for the poor [...]

Twitterverse is the latest mashup of the increasingly popular Twitter.  It takes information from "tweets" coming from a certain period of time, and then analyzes them to see which words are being typed the most.  The site just launched, so there's a lot of development to come, such as a bigger filter on the kinds of words being displayed, but it's fun to look through. 
You would never think that some of the most typed words are people's names.  The biggest [...]

Web 2.0 is nearly out of new ways to bookmark and tag sites, so where would a company wanting to innovate in that area go? According to StartupSquad, they'd head to the virtual world of Second Life .
Sloog is a social bookmarking app that allows you to tag favorite places in Second Life, share them with the rest of the Sloog community, and easily access your favorite places in a tagged organizational schema that makes sense to you.
The application [...]

As a long-time Epinions member and contributor, I was skeptical of any new review sites. After all, with the affiliation with eBay and Shopping.com, Epinions seems to have cornered the market on consumer reviews, utilizing a community for content creation and peer ratings when Web 2.0 was a mere twinkle in Tim O'Reilly's eye. In addition, since the inception of Epinions, most online retailers have implemented consumer reviews on their own sites, so why would another really be necessary?
A quick pass [...]

A specialty of Web 2.0 is the wisdom of many rather than the knowledge of one. Many ones come together to form one big pile of many, but the pile is quite organized. That’s the kind of thinking that seems to have jumpstarted a site called Wis.dm, a social network – small at the moment – which, in essence, is a bunch of things rolled into one friendly, ultra-connected mob. Can you tell we like it?
The folks who gave birth [...]

Announcement: Social bookmarking company Raw Sugar closes its doors.
The last day in December was a sad day in the Web 2.0 world. Ofer Ben-Shachar’s ambitious project - Raw Sugar - closed down its operation.
If you never had the opportunity to try it (it still is in operation as of this posting), Raw Sugar attempted to be a much more potent form of del.icio.us by not only providing the ability to bookmark and share sites, but to also categorize those bookmarks [...]

Web-based photo solutions are… abundant, wouldn’t you say? We know Flickr and Photobucket are constantly warring for ‘number one’, and a myriad of others that have found their niches in the West, East, and everyplace in between. There’s Zoto, Pikeo, Dropshots, Slide, PBase – let’s just say there are lots of photos out there on the great WWW. So who says there’s room for another service to cater to all the digital cameras out there. The folks at You Represent [...]

Prior to its worldwide re-introduction (itList is where it all started, circa 1996) through the underground hit, Del.icio.us, social bookmarking was – and to some, it still is – an item that puzzled many. I know I was lost for quite some time on what it even meant. Now, just a couple of years since social bookmarking walked onto the main stage to help power you and I in getting the most out of the next-generation internet, it is essential [...]