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Tags and Tagclouds offer Intriguing Possabilities

January 27th, 2006 • Brian Caldwell
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An interesting thing about tags and the tagclouds currently blossoming everywhere, is not the user interface. it is the data which drives the display.consider a couple sites:

Flickr created a way to discover images linked in a network of similarity as determined by a common keyword tag.

TagTerms is providing the first tag based, 100% commercial, search engine directory. The FAQ is long and very detailed. and very intriguing. try a real live Tag search

Social structures based on the passion of photography, or groups that share experiences visually, and commercial search based on the actual popularity of vendors who have things to sell. The thing that intrigues me the most is the variety of underlying data which can feed a Tag cloud. Innovations such as using “time” as a relevancy factor to control part of the UI on TagTerms, makes me wonder about what might come next.

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