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BBC news has a prototype website for applying tags to news stories.

Just click on a news story and you will see on the right the tags for the story and stories that share these tags.

From Headshift:

“Users have their own tags page to aggregate bookmarked stories, and they can also view a global tags page showing the most popular and recent tags used by all users. There is also a tag search facility across a users’ tags or the whole tag space. For each ‘tag’, users can see their own stories and other peoples’ stories that have been associated with a term, plus there are feeds from Del.icio.us, Technorati and Flickr that pull in content with similar tags.”

Really impressed with Connotea after reading Social bookmarking tools (II) A case study – Connotea.

Here is the Connotea news feed for the latest.

Great features

• Future implementation of groups
  (According to Social bookmarks chart, this is already implemented in Spurl, CiteULike, Unalog and igooi)
• Future implementation of openURL links
• Private accounts or private entries…they even include an expiry date for your liking (see Fri 6th May 2005 entry on the latest news)
  (over a third of other systems have this feature)
• Open code
• Search by tag
  del.icio.us users can use del.icio.us tag search or meta-tag search tools like tag central or technorati tag search
• Add a comment bookmarklet

  o you don’t have to go to your bookmark within your archive to add a comment, instead you can click on the bookmarklet when you are on that particular webpage
  (note: you can’t comment on a webpage that isn’t already in your archive)

  o And you can add multiple comments

  o Also include hyperlink text in your comments

• With any Connotea record you can see everyone’s comments in a thread via a bookmarklet…this is amazing!
  (I think Gibeo all has this feature)
• Identified field

  o Automatically mapping meta-data from archives/publishers so you can automatically save a citation in one click.

  Eg. If you bookmark a page from PubMed, the exact format of the citation will be recognised and will be duplicated into your bookmark

• Export/Import into personal reference managers
  (not sure if it can generate citations style’s like Furl).
• Tags have high or reputable google rankings
• Retrieve items from multiple tags and users in the one search string (this is unique!)
• If you click on a date it also displays

  o All tags used in the bookmarks on this date

  o Users who posted these bookmarks on this date

  o Related tags

  o Related users

• If you click on a user it also displays

  o Users tag list

  o Related tags

  o Related users

• If you click on a tag it also displays

  o Users who use these tags

  o Related tags

  o Related users

• If you click on on ? others it also displays

  o RSS for the URL of a bookmark
  (Del.icio.us users can use DURL)

• If you click on ? comments it also displays

  o A thread of all Connotea comments for that bookmark

Requested features

• Collapse/expand function like in del.irio.us
• Full-text (cache) web-page like in Furl and others
• RSS for comments of an individual bookmark
  (Gibeo has email notification)
• Only searches a tag label or a user at the moment, needs to search in title, URL, description, etc..
• Browse authors, within a users account, then browse a particular author in all accounts
  (CiteULike has this feature)
• Posting a link to a blog
  (Blogmarks has this feature)

Alternate View

• You can view all public bookmarks sorted by date…ie. using the date as a section title, like a blog

  o At the moment you have to click on a date (which is noted on the end of every bookmark)…wouldn’t it be good if there was a calendar archive (like on a blog) to view entries made on any date

  o I’d like to view this at the user level
  (see dashLog)

This must be old news, but I just noticed that MSN does search RSS feeds.

MSN newsbot also has a suggestion feature based on the news you read, kind of similar to Findory, and the new Y!Q.

See an earlier post for other web search engines that generate search RSS feeds.