I’m now listening Sriram from womtag.com who is explaining his service, which seems inspired by the explosion of activity in the social events space. By getting sponsors of events and bloggers to use the same unique tag, associated with a CPM set by the blogger, there is a natural mechanism for linking the sponsor message [...]
The Cocoalicious developers are talking about tag UIs. They like Del.icio.us Direc.tor, which somehow has a hierarchical browser for tag relationships. They hate tag clouds, finding them confusing. They like the loop interface on Garage Band, but its button-centric approach doesn’t scale past a few dozen terms.
His requirement for a good tag design:
Scalable (needs to [...]
So here we are at Tag Camp, an unapologetic Geekfest in an empty floor of an office building in downtown Palo Alto. The unifying theme is this seemingly innocuous concept of user-generated metadata called tags. Yet there are over 100 people here all (or nearly all) intoxicated by the simplicity of this powerful idea.
Some [...]
Jonathan just pointed over to today’s manufactured controversy: what platforms are capable of producing the next big thing. Yahoo’s in-house blog-pundit (blundit?) Russell Beattie made this cryptic post on Saturday that initially had Mac die-hards agreeing, noses in the air:
“If someone’s using a PC to demo the Next Big Thing…
… then it’s not the next [...]
Like many who follow such things I’m test-driving the new Flock browser, the first “social browser” that integrates Web browsing, blogging, social bookmarks and photo-sharing. The buzz has been big around this project, not least due to its catchy name and their infectious sense of style, so it’s not surprising to me that the slashdot [...]