Last week it was Tags on Speed. That was then, this is now… Richard S writes “More on Social tags” pointing to “taggregator” an experiment with allows you to provide one “tag” and it generates a side by side view of del.icoi.us and flickr results: Someone built a thing I wanted to but didn’t — the taggregator. It’s ace — lets you compare what del.icio.us and flickr users have recorded under the same tag. Add “?tag=[yourtag]” to the URI to see the most recent posts from both under that tag. I used the data from tenbyten to show what the taggregator thinks about the current most frequently-used word in the news: go here to be redirected. This got me thinking a bit around social tagging and horizontal classification (or “folksonomies”, if your stomach is strong enough). When someone chooses to use a particular tag to describe a resource, that decision [...]
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