Monday, January 24, 2005 - Posts

Tagging

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The above is my notation for tags in my Moleskine's.

Tagging is becoming more and more prevalent in today's world.  From moleskine notebooks, to gmail  (as labels), pictures (Flickr), blogging (Technorati) to bookmarks (del.iciol.us), you see it everywhere.  And the great thing about it is that people get it.  When I go to del.icio.us and look for all tags with XAML I can very easily discover new content about XAML.  I also see tags for Avalon, examples and Wiki, which will take me to new sites with relevant content.  Pretty cool.  I've talked about in this post before in a search engine for Longhorn.  And even to some extent with this one (ok, it's kind of a stretch). 

What we need now is a common library for all these tags out there.  When I search for <food] it would be nice if I could also at the same time get <comida].  A lookup at a common library for things like this would be great!  I mean don't you ever wonder what all those tags are in Kanji or the technorati site are for?  Wouldn't it be great if the W3 or someone else could provide this?  Hey, Google or MS how about a tag search page option? 

 

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