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September 27, 2005

Guten Tag does meta-tag search

Filed under: tags, search

Guten Tag is a meta-tag engine for the human indexed web…see my post about defining the tagosphere.

Guten Tag breaks up the tagosphere into 6 tabs:

Posts (aggregated blog posts from the Blogospshere)
Bookmarks (aggregated bookmarks from various social bookmark services)
Photos
Podcasts
Videos
More

From ResearchBuzz:

“It’s nice to see a tag search where so many things are available, but I’d make two big changes. First I’d add more sources. They’re popping up all over the place so that shouldn’t be a big deal. Second I’d try to mix the results somehow — relevance? Date of posting? Random? Right now it’s too easy to look at the results and say, “Oh, it’s just del tags” or Flickr tags or whatever, because you’re not going all the way to the bottom.”

I totally agree, as it is one step forward over some of the other services in that results are all in the main body (not just in separate boxes), but now let’s try mixing the results for relevancy

…then the next step is to be able to full-text search within each of these tabs (the human-indexed web)

You can type in a keyword or choose from the tag cloud…example.

Attensa: del.icio.us clips

Filed under: General, rss, tags, readers

Attensa has released the latest version of their RSS reader, and this time round they have implemented a feature to clip your favourites posts which you can organise by tag.

The kick ass feature is that it syncronizes automatically with your del.icio.us bookmarks…I wonder if you can toggle the del.icio.us synchronization on or off.

So first you have Bloglines, that lets you save items in folders, then you have Newsgator Online that does the same, but these folders are RSS enabled…then you have Rojo that uses tags instead of folders (and you know what this means, all user accounts are merged into a folksonomy)…also see BlogBridge
…many other RSS readers organise clips by tags.
NOTE: Rojo, and BlogBridge also enable tagging of feeds (instead of folders)…so they also have a feed folksonomy…many new RSS readers are starting to organise feeds this way, I think the first was Feedmarker.

Rojo also can clip from within its RSS reader to del.icio.us, as can a Bloglines hack, also see BlogBridge link above…but for this to happen automatically is a great feature from Attensa.

Now the only issue I see with this is the difference between clipping to share, and clipping to save.

If you are clipping an item, to read later on, which then you will delete…then you wouldn’t want this added to your del.icio.us account.

I think there are three save scenarios:

1. Items you want to clip to del.icio.us
2. Items you clip to a folder to read later, but may not want to keep
3. Items you flag to read later (same as No. 2 but with more importance)

[via TechCrunch]

Bank of Ideas

Filed under: folksonomy, tools

Bank of Ideas is a folksonomy for sharing ideas on suggestions, issues, feedback, etc.. for the Reader2 folksonomy.
A folksonomy usually has a forum as a discussion tool, but why not use a folksonomy to discuss ideas about a folksonomy.

There is also a chat room if you require synchronous communication.

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