Tagging 'takes off for web users'
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Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users, shows research.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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(InfoWorld) - Tagging, the emblematic activity of the "Web 2.0" and social computing era, appears destined for mainstream status, a new study concludes. Among U.S. Internet users, 28 percent have taggedÂ online content like blog entries, photos, Web sites, video clips, and news articles, The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports in a study released Wednesday. On any particular day, 7 percent of users engage in this activity to categorize and label material they upload or find on the Web. Justen Deal, a manager in Los Angeles who tags news articles on sites like Slashdot, believes that as the use of tagging increases, it will give blogging and the Web in general a significant boost by making content easier to organize and discover. "Right now we have one great big pile of stuff on the Web, and especially in the blogosphere," Deal said. "With tagging, both by the content author and the public, I think there'll be a good opportunity to start moving content into more specific, relevant piles, that would help make sorting through the blogosphere a lot easier and a lot more useful for a lot of people." Because this is Pew's first survey about tagging, the study doesn't quantify how fast tagging adoption is growing, but it points at the rising popularity of tagging sites like Flickr and del.icio.us as an indicator that the practice is increasing in popularity. Jill Hurst-Wahl, president of Hurst Associates, a digitization consulting firm in Syracuse, New York, began tagging about a year ago and finds it very useful and convenient. Recently, she has attended conferences in which attendees agree to tag their blog postings and photos about the event with specific labels. This has made it possible for her to find a wealth of material online from conference attendees in a way that would have been impossible, or at least much more difficult, without tagging. While she finds the 28 percent adoption rate the study reveals encouraging,Â Hurst-Wahl still encounters many people who are completely unfamiliar with the concept of tagging or who, ironically, do tag, but don't recognize the term or fully comprehend the scope of the practice. "To some extent, tagging is user friendly, but a lot of people don't understand it," she said in a phone interview. Tagging is catching on as people realize the convenience of categorizing sites and files online and as large Internet players like Google and Yahoo, which owns Flickr and del.icio.us, offer tagging features in their services, like Web mail, search, photo and video sharing,and social bookmarking, according to Pew. "The act of tagging is likely to be embraced by a more mainstream population in the future because many organizations are making it easier and easier to tag Internet content," the report reads. By giving people the chance to organize online content they're interested in and sharing it with others, tagging helps with the perennial challenge of finding useful things on the Web. "Tagging is a kind of next-stage search phenomenon -- a way to mark, store, and then retrieve the Web content that users already found valuable and of which they want to keep track," the report reads. For its study, Pew surveyed adult U.S. residents in December 2006 and found that men and women are equally likely to tag content online. "Taggers" are more likely to be under the age of 40, to have high education and income levels, and to have broadband Internet access at home.
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Fingers all tired from typing Web addresses from Bebo to Zebo to hit all your social networking and media sharing sites?
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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Only 'folksonomy' inspires more fear and loathing It's official: "folksonomy", "blogosphere", "netiquette" and "blook" are among the net-spawned terms which should be cast down into the eternal fires of hell, AFP reports.â¦
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Tag management system aims to help goods cross borders freely--but could get tangled in a legal tussle over drug tracking.
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Wednesday we pushed a new build of Rojo  which introduced a few new and important features:  * Tags *  Chris does a good job of explaining  tags so I'll start there:  "Feeling taggy? Some prominent bloggers have been talking about tags and there have been some fascinating discussions about how tags, also known as keywords, can facilitate the "merging of personal information architecture and public/shared/group/emergent information architecture." But if you have been using sites like del.icio.us or Flickr you don't need to read this high-brow stuff to know: tags are cool. They are an easy way to categorize your stuff and a great way to see what your friends are categorizing as well."  Tags ar ...
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Here's a screen shot of the HTML source.  Looks like it's trying to serve some kind of ActiveX control. Happy to be using a Mac.  PS: Scoble just showed up and TM works on his cell phone so there's something weird going on.
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In a new post on his blog, Kore Nordmann takes a look at a feature that's been around a long time (first introduced in a message board application) - BBCodes.   The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing" ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any sense in using them at all.   He looks at some of the myths surrounding them and their use (more secure, easier to use, safer than HTML) and gives some reasons for making teh choice of HTML over them.
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Blog: Company kicks off its Search Suggest feature, designed to save users time by offering search suggestions on which they can click.
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NEW YORK - &quot;Blog&quot; is now the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its frequent lookup paralleled its growth on the political scene this year as keepers of Web logs
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It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. &nbsp;At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike.
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A good tag editor can make managing your crazy-huge song collection a snap -- and free you from the world of iTunes ubiquity. By Eric Solomon.
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Guess what is the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary? It&#39;s blog. In case you didn&#39;t know, that&#39;s short for Web log, a form of online expression that has come into