It’s a Tag World, My Masters

By Ian, on September 28th, 2006

Exactly how useful are tags?

Tags and tagging are a big part of the Web 2.0 ethos. Instead of sorting items into folders, you describe them with a series of words. The words you use, the ‘tags’, are up to you. Some people refer to this as ‘folk­sonomy’ in the sense that tags are home-​​​​grown and created

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Flock’d up

By Ian, on July 29th, 2006

I like Flock, the social web browser. The integ­ra­tion with blogs, photo-​​​​sharing and online book­marking sites is really well done. And the design looks fant­astic. Having a built-​​​​in RSS reader is a great bonus and miles ahead of Firefox’s Live Bookmarks or the weird and unin­tu­itive use of feeds in Thunderbird or Opera. So am

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