tagging

BBC Comedy Soup

April 25, 2006, 11:49 pm

The new BBC Comedy Soup website launched today. It’s ‘a breeding ground and showcase for original comedy’. You can upload comedy images and, er, e-mail in audio and video, rate other people’s stuff, download Creative Archive stuff to use in your stuff, and there’s even tagging and tag clouds. My favorite bit of the site [...]

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The BBC do 'tagging' on message board threads

November 11, 2005, 12:30 am

The BBC are trialling the use of ‘tagging’ on their new England message board. Indeed, the front page of the messageboard includes a tagcloud. One of the key reasons that tagging was developed is because with English regions, conversations often spill into other regions, and pidgeonholing users and conversations into seperate, discrete boards is always [...]

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A problem for tagging: morphology

July 29, 2005, 10:31 am

Tags are hot. If you don’t know what they are, check out this and this and this. Another website that has tags is 43 things and its sister site 43 places. They know me well, I got them some press a while back (all publicity is good publicity). Anyway, onto the point of this post, [...]

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Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 Beta

June 30, 2005, 11:50 pm

The slightly bewilderingly name Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 marks and attempt by Yahoo! to clawl some credibility back to its search offerings. It consists of a few features, most of which can already be found elsewhere: Saving search history – As seen at: A9 and Google. Implementation: nothing special, the switch to turn it off isn’t [...]