'A collective experiment in the public’s perception of UK politicians. All tags are generated by people like you and do not reflect the opinions of the site owners or anyone else they know. Have fun.' -- Stickup kids is out to tax

'The agency created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. Over a two-week period, it uploaded images from of IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album. Then it put out word that the first person to tag their name to a product in the pictures, won it. Facebook being what it is, word got out and needy, enthusiastic Swedes begged for more pictures so that they could tag themselves to a new sofa, a new bed, or a new vase into which they could stick their plastic flowers or their dead grandparents' ashes. ...thousands of Swedes were spreading pictures of IKEA showrooms all around the personal galaxy known as their profile pages.'

'there's the issue of what to include in the "notes," and how to tag the thing — all and both of which amount to curating. It's odd to put these links up in no particular order, save for those associations found in the tags. Some are old, some more current. Some I can't recall, though I'm happy now to find them. Some require more context than I'm able to provide at this time. I suppose there can enter into it an element of vanity : number of links, exoticism, high heterogeneity whose only glue is subtle principle.'

'We just added the capability to the Flickr Splicer to only splice in photos that have a certain tag. We'd like to expand this feature to the Link Splicer, but we haven't gotten to it yet. There's a nice hack, though, for del.icio.us. If you only want to include links that have a certain tag for a particular user, then enter the user id "id/tag". So, for example, if the user spongebob only wants to splice in links tagged with "clothing", he would enter the user id "spongebob/clothing" in the link splicer.'

"Much of modern society is defined by material goods. In that sense, people are defined through other people’s eyes based on what they do and do not or cannot own. Whether people admit it or not, judgments are made about people based on what they look like and what they own. These judgments might, in some cases, create unspoken bonds but in most cases create barriers between people. Our goal for this project was to represent the cultural similarities between random people. We might not have any direct relations with each other, yet our lifestyles, what we own, and what we enjoy in life can categorize us into subcultures of society which in the end, can give all of us a sense of belonging and relations with each other. Instead of instantly making a judgment about a person based on what they have or like, our visualization gives a multifaceted glance at each participant and the connections that their diverse attributes have with each other." -- Great images.

"What's happening at your company? Share status updates with your co-workers." -- With Hashtags too. Kinda interesting way of tagging company processes.

"I’m looking to get “g33k” tattoo’ed on my wrist using this, any redundant bits that can be missed will help" -- Haha. Cutter!

Katherine Albrecht, founder of CASPIAN: "... our stores will one day turn into retail 'zoos' where the customer is always on exhibit."

'Spivack is calling Twine a "Semantic Graph", which he says will map relationships to both people and topics. So Twine's Semantic Graph actually integrates the Social Graph.'

Video interview on Radar Networks', Twine. A semantic information manager. (It's more interesting than it sounds!)

"The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves."

Nah! Needs to be dynamic/programmatic. Granted, you need some hard filters. Tags would have been more appropriate, but people 'get' categories, so...

"Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space."

"A whole set of objects should suddenly return to scrutability, as it were. People would begin to restore historical details to objects, and in some cases restore the objects to owners or the ancestors of owners."

But I can't use my own QR Code! Why do I want yours?! Manufacture on demand, please.

PDF: "Touch is the new click."

"To post a LINK and thus to relate two or more contents is a basic method to create a freely accessible and modular network of personal associations on the World Wide Web."

How to use a TiddlyWiki to organise your thinking. (If only I could organise tiddlers spatially like stickies.)

"The Category Cloud Widget is a widget that displays your categories as a tag cloud in your sidebar."

"XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags."

("Exclusive" Shut up!) Looking forward to playing with this.

"VeriChip offers the widest range of RFID security solutions... both implanted and external options... the world’s first and only patented, FDA-cleared, man-implantable RFID microchip to the only patented active RFID tag with skin-sensing capabilities."

"If Spock succeeds in becoming the Google for people search, you may have no choice but to sign on. Your reputation may depend on it."

Oooo... tagging photos with voice recordings... great memory capture and storytelling tool.

Hilarious: "Web 2.0 offers we humans a historically unprecendented ability to catalogue all our shit, then look at our various catalogues of shit and say “that is a whole lot of shit.”

Video: Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web.. he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around.. he presents "We Feel Fine" a project that scours blogs to collect the planet's emotions"

"David Weinberger's new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categoreis at once and search them in many ways"

Useful: "CMML is a HTML-like markup language for time-continuous data such as audio/video. It enables the description of structure for a media file through marking up temporal clips. It enables attachment of hyperlinks & annotations to the clips."

"Spime is a neologism for a currently-theoretical object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object. The name “spime” for this concept was coined by Bruce Sterling, in various speeches and writings on the subject.

"New technologies will make online search more intelligent--and may even lead to a "Web 3.0.""

"Concerns about privacy are understandable — but the real issue here is what happens when this information gets mashed up with the rest of the digitally-tagged world-of-tomorrow-afternoon."

"understanding the dynamics of the hive mind are [is] important. Providing feedback loops to opinions, enabling a momentum of consensus to emerge actually changes the opinions of the individuals within the network. Ignore this lesson at your peril."

"Rubel also said he'd like to see services like Google add tags as a way to bring more user-specific context to search results. As it is, he explained, search-engine results differ from tag searches in that they are not based on user-created content."

Gupta: "I use del.icio.us for bookmarking any piece of information I find useful on the web. Del.icio.us adds a bit of subjectivity and context using tags. It's like adding a human touch."

"Gupta said it is better to combine a lot of simple tags than to dream up complicated new ones."

"Some surprising evolutionary relationships emerge from DNA analysis. For example, did you know a beech tree and a cucumber are more closely related than a beech tree and a sycamore tree? Click on the graphic to see more surprising kinships."

"What is del.icio.us other than an editorial tool? Each person that uses del.icio.us is slicing up the web it their own special way. Del.icio.us is populated by many brilliant minds, but they are simply too hard to find!" I don't agree.

Tagtastic. W+K use a tagcloud to represent their agency 'brain'. Just feels right.

"Questions: There was an interesting question about personnas. Antiques are an object, but people take on certain personnas online. How do you keep those separate?"

Nice use of flash paper... "Scribd's mission is to create the world's largest open library of documents. Explore the thousands of docs already uploaded or contribute your own!"

Nifty. Now I just have to remember to use it.

His vision.... "His vision is of all physical objects embedded with microcomputers with communication capabilities, sensors, actuators and so on, to supply us with location specific information."

Ah... this is the most profitable use of 'tags'... tagging words so that ads can be attached... Just a silly thought. As you were.

"Wayfinder is a developing resource for students and researchers to use in browsing digital archives. The project's goal is to make accessing archived materials more efficient and enjoyable through the use of tag-based taxonomies and user networking."

".. people create popularity in tags, while software creates popularity in search engines. The supposed benefit is that people rankings are better that software rankings. I find myself wanting to believe in this, yet struggle to see the reality of it."

"My abilities to solve problems, to make analogies, to make jokes, to explain tagwebs, to understand people, to think - allof these things have been improved greatly. I now understand how my brain works and I can act in ways that embraces that knowledge"

A huge list of del.icio.us widget things. Just get the 'del.icio.us complete' browser extension.

Nice introductory video explaining tagging: "One of the most popular uses for tagging is context"

"A broad folksonomy can, therefore, give a sense of 'aboutness'. Folksonomy is not just a categorisation method; it is a cultural dialogue."

Introduces 'Facets' as a way to combine folksonomy and taxonomy

Very comprehensive overview of tagging.

The future of tagging and 'metasearch'

Proposes 'folktologies'

Some good thoughts on building social networks around 'objects' (photos, bookmarks, etc)

Some solid insights on the challenges of building participatory 'information environments'. Uses Digg as an example

Great insights on taggers: "I'm developing what I'd consider an actual working relationship with these other scholars. A few of them have added me to their own networks. It's low-level, low-commitment hanging out with high levels of information exchange."

Downloadable source code to accompany the book

"So it’s official, my first book del.icio.us Mashups has been unleashed upon the world!"

Rashmi knows her stuff.

Some nice diagrams illustrating the differences between using tags and categories. Very interesting comments too.

A must read on the whole folksonomy/taxonomy debate. Obviously the answer is both.

"... we were forced to optimize for the storage and retrieval of objects, not ideas. Now, though, we can scrap of the stupid hack of modeling our worldview on the dictates of shelf space."

"Folksonomies are akin to a personal semantic web, where one is giving up a broadly used structure that works fairly well globally and needs a lot of work for one that works darn well personally with much less work."

Pre-folksonomy rant: The seven insurmountable obstacles to meta-utopia: "People lie; People are lazy; People are stupid; Mission: Impossible: know thyself; Schemas aren't neutral; Metrics influence results; There's more than one way to describe something"

Comment: "Announcing the Jewish Mother MT-Plug-In, guilt trips with nagging via IM. "Have you posted today?" "When are you giving me grandchildren?" "Are you tagging like you should?" "Have you tidied up your blogroll?" "

Yep, you bloggy lot NEED taggers to tag your posts for you: "Many people are pointing to Clay Shirky's observation that there is good, cheap tagging going on, but that it's done by readers and not authors. Bingo!"

"I promised I'd explain once and for all why it's hopeless to "try to get the users" to use social bookmarking software unless they're already using it. Here's why: I don't know. But I do know it never works."

Those are "text clouds" NOT a tag clouds!

"Anagenesis is the evolution of species involving a change in gene frequency in an entire population. When enough mutations reach fixation in a population to significantly differentiate from an ancestral population, a new species name may be assigned."

"Cladogenesis is an evolutionary splitting event in which each branch and its smaller branches forms a "clade", an evolutionary mechanism and a process of adaptive evolution that leads to the development of a greater variety of sister organisms."

Fascinating: "Text clouds are meant to facilitate rapid understanding and comprehension of a body of words, links, phrases, etc. Any block of information composed of text is open to analysis as a text cloud,"

"Measure behavior rather than claims. del.icio.us doesn't have stars because why would you bookmark something that was no good? This way people bookmark things that they really care about rather than trying to tell the system things."

"I think Dave has pointed out a key problem with tagging... it requires us to always do it. The system wants 100% participation. If you don't do it even once, or don't do it well enough then you are at fault for messing it up for others"

"Slife is the new awareness browser for the Mac OS X that lets you visualize your computer activities like never before. Trying to be more productive? Wondering where all that time went? Now you can find out!"

According to Wikipedia, the first use of the tag cloud was Jim Flanagan’s Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of web site referrers, circa 2003.

"A tag cloud can be used as a visual depiction of content tags. More frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible."

Uber blogger/tagger Steve Rubel hasn't added anyone into his del.icio.us network despite having loads of fans. No criticism intended, just find it interesting... (tagged for:steverubel - seems appropriate he should know that I've tagged him.)

Interesting: "I use "exrss" to tag those blogs/sites I removed from my feedreader (for the reason I explain in the description)"

Very interesting... A little bit of McLuhan in there too.