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Newsweek has incorporated conversation links from Technorati for their articles…what’s going on, the blogosphere supplementing the traditional media (I wonder if they screen the links).

Anyway if you click on the Blog Talk link it takes you to this page (as an example), which shows results from this articles link search in Technorati, but displayed in Newsweek…so it lists posts in the blogosphere talking about this article.
There is a link to create a Watchlist, and a link to view the results in Technorati.

The right sidebar has some additional information:

- Most-blogged about articles on Newsweek within the past 7 days
- Technorati Search box
- Links to phrase search results from Newsweek’s columnists names

Click on Steven Levy and you can view posts indexed by Technorati that have the phrase “Steven Levy”.

[via Read/Write Web]

I just realised del.icio.us about page has a handy bookmarklet to see who bookmarked the page you are on, it’s called “bookmarks from others”.

Another similar tool is “delicious linkbacks“, but instead of taking you to del.icio.us it lists the items in a pop-up box.

I didn’t realise this, but if you are browsing through a users public account on Furl, you can comment on a bookmark.
It is more like sending an email (private message) refering to the bookmark in question, as the comment isn’t published under the bookmark for all to see.

[via Big IDEA]

Big IDEA explains implementing not only tags, but displaying a tag cloud in your Wordpress blog.
Take a look at the side of the Big IDEA blog to see the result, if you click on “see all tags” it takes you to an enormous tagcloud page, also next to every tag is a Technorati and del.icio.us icon.
How cool is that, every internal tag also links to blogosphere categories(Technorati Tags) and to the most popular folksonomy(del.icio.us).

Similar posts:
Wordpress: tags plug-in
Wordpress plugin: subject terms (tags)

MyProgs is a social bookmark manager dedicated to programs…ie. it is a space to keep a list of your programs, and organise them by tag (all tags, and users are public and shareable, making it a folksonomy).

You can combine tags in a search, and all exclude a tag by using the (-) sign…and every tag you browse shows related tags.
Also you can see all users who bookmarked a particular item
…this site is very similar in look and functionality to del.icio.us (aren’t most of them).

Future implementations will be to add more RSS feeds…at the moment there is a main feed, user feeds, but it lacks a user tag level feed, or even a general level tag feed.
Other intended features are exporting, ratings, tag bundles…

It seems these systems are all alike, but recently we are seeing folksonomies specializing in a topic (like this one is supposed to be used only to bookmark programs-as a place for people to share and discover programs, any other type of bookmark I guess would be considered noise or against the intention of this service).

Also, a specialised (topic/discipline based) social bookmark service probably makes it easier to gain a tight little user base…because it is specialised the tags seem to kind of have the upperhand on being more accurate.
That is, the tag “blog” on del.icio.us could refer to anything, but the tag “blog” on MyProgs is going to refer to blog software/program/addons.