Archive for the ‘Net-Tech-Tags’ Category.
18th February 2008, 11:02 pm
Either this is hypnotic, or I have way too much free time. Del.icio.us Spy, at http://www.ajaxonomy.com/deliciousspy/ , shows you bookmarks as they’re being added to del.icio.us, along with a screen shot and occasionally a little context.
If you don’t want to see every last bookmark being added, you can also filter by tag. If you happen to choose a tag that doesn’t get updated very often, you can have the site play a sound for you every time it updates. And finally, there’s a pause button if you see some links that you want to investigate before they scroll off the screen. (You can also save links for a single session if you like.)
Del.icio.us Spy is also open source, so you can install it on your own server if you like. You can get details and a link to the source code at http://www.ajaxonomy.com/2008/web-20/ajaxonomys-delicious-spy-released .
16th February 2008, 01:32 pm
Free Government Information is doing an experiment for tagging government documents, and they need you to help. Details at http://freegovinfo.info/epatagging, but briefly…
The group has taken 32 documents from the EPA Web site and posted them to the Internet Archive, at http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=epapilotproject . They want you to read the documents, and then describe them and tag them in del.icio.us. You can see what’s been tagged so far at http://del.icio.us/tag/epapilotproject?setcount=100 . The project will run for three months and then the data generated by users will be analyzed, with the group determining how many participated, average number of tags per document, how the documents were described, etc. This is not as much fun as tagging the LOC’s Flickr photos, but it’s an interesting experiment.
7th October 2007, 11:55 pm
If you’re looking for more tag sites to do information trapping, check out Thagoo. It’s a tag meta-search site that offers RSS feeds for search results.
The site’s at http://thagoo.com/ . Search is extremely simple keyword. Your search results include page title, URL, where the tag was picked up, and how long ago the tag was updated. The sources I saw in the search results included Furl, BlueDot, BlogMarks, del.icio.us, BlinkList, My Web Yahoo, and MisterWong. You can sort the results by the most recent or the most popular.
At the top of the results page is also a link for an RSS feed. Unfortunately the feed only shows the link and the title of the page/site, not the source/popularity/time of addition.
Quick results, lots of sources, and an RSS feed. One I’m going to add to my information trapping toolbox…
