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December 09, 2005
The fact that the most visited site on the Net has bought the premier tagging site should confirm that tagging is going mainstream. Yahoo has profoundly not screwed up Flickr, so I have confidence that del.icio.us users are not going to feel betrayed or de-featured by Yahoo. Most important, Yahoo is now in a position to become a tag broker, adding value to the act of tagging, thus driving more tagging, thus increasing the Web's memetic value. With widespread tagging, the Web means more. Congratulations to Joshua Schachter and the rest of the Delicious folks. [Tags: tagging yahoo delicious] Posted
by D. Weinberger at December 9, 2005 03:16 PM
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yes, but now we need some structured tagging, at least for the blogging tools. managing my tags in TypePad is close to frickin' impossible. what i really want to see is del.icio.us' tag management interfaces offered as a peace offering to *all* blog tools. then i could organize my tags how i view them:
- by person
- by place
- by title
- by descriptor
- by concept
- etc.
i'm thinking about opening up my blog to be collaborative, but the tagging library is growing to be unusable.
Posted by: sean coon | December 9, 2005 07:02 PM
In this regard, what do you think about new and free Yahoo Answers, David? Thanks :)
Posted by: Leonid | December 10, 2005 03:27 AM
Cool blog.
Posted by: Viagra | December 10, 2005 06:48 AM
Whatever happened about this?
Posted by: sennoma | December 10, 2005 02:23 PM
I am not sure it is going to be a good thing but I guess we will see soon.
Posted by: dave | December 10, 2005 03:22 PM
Sean, understand the value of structured tags, but worry that they'll feel too much like red tape. We'll see.
Leonid, I haven't spent enough time at Yahoo Answers. I'm curious about whether it will avoid the fate of similar efforts that degenerated into sites where kids ask people to do their homework for them and the most common question is "How do I get my girlfriend back?"
Sennoma, I don't think much has happened about Yahoo's enabling of Chinese filtering of dissident views.
Dave, I'm not sure it'll be a good thing, but you're right: We'll see soon enough.
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December 10, 2005 04:02 PM
I never took to del.icio.us but I really like rawsugar.com
Among all its nice features, it also has structured tagging like this "blogs > politics".
Posted by: Hanan Cohen | December 10, 2005 06:12 PM
Hanan, thanks for that. I'm looking for a replacement for delicious, and rawsugar looks pretty good. People might also like spurl.net, although I don't much (I have been using it as a backup for delicious.)
As DW says, so far as I can tell not much has happened about Yahoo climbing eagerly into bed with government censorship. But at least this much has happened: I prefer not to have anything to do with them. I don't use flickr, and I'll be dropping delicious.
So no, I don't think it's a good thing. I *liked* delicious.
Posted by: sennoma | December 12, 2005 01:14 AM
The Delicious clone http://digforporn.com is way more useful than Delicious itself!
Posted by: STop IT | December 19, 2005 11:15 AM
The Delicious clone http://www.digforporn.com is catching up to delicious.com. Especially since the new yahoo acquired delicious.com is always down for "maintenance"
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December 19, 2005 11:49 AM