Library clips

Adam Green has picked up on Dave Winer’s enhancements to the OPML spec and the biggy mentioned is OPML outlines within an RSS feed.
I think this means that a new item in your feed will be an outline you can expand to read…

Not sure how you put an outline in a blog post, but I remember posting a while back on OPML blogs, but this was more about the whole blog being an OPML outline, whereas here we are talking about having an OPML outline within a blog post or within a news feed item.

So instead of your blog post or new feed item having a bunch of paragraphs, it’s all in outline form so you have to expand each node to read contents.

Imagine a library blog utilising this so a blog post for a new book could almost be like a library catalogue entry.

Why package a feed item in an OPML outline?

As I mentioned above some blog posts or feed items don’t have to be written as they can already use an existing OPML.

In the example above imagine each record in the library catalogue was packaged in OPML…when the library acquires a new book, they create an OPML record for it, then send that OPML into a blog post or perhaps the catalogue itself has a feed for newly added items.

Anyway the new RSS item would be a neat OPML outline…why write this out again when OPML is so reusable.

I could have a personal favourite books OPML I make at Grazr
…each day I open my Google Reader and read my RSS feed for the latest library books
…if there is a book I want to read I take the OPML from this RSS feed item and drag it into my Grazr OPML.

My Grazr OPML is full of OPML includes, each one being a library book record, and I grabbed each of these records from the latest books RSS feed that the library catalogue generates.

Another example is an RSS feed item that has the latest details about a users profile (address, webpage, email, phone, etc…)
…if this RSS feed item was in OPML, then we could grab this user profile OPML and re-use it elsewhere.

What I mean here is that instead of linking to an OPML, my latest blog post itself would be an OPML of my profile, then after reading this RSS item (which is actually an OPML), you could grab it and put it elsewhere, how’s that, a re-usable blog post.

Tags in OPML

I mentioned on my recent post on Grazr that I’d like to tag my OPML’s so I can organise them.

You can use tags to mean anything, but generally it’s to describe the aboutness of something, so if I want to find my OPML’s on “library”, I just click that tag and get all those OPML’s about “library”.

Imagine that in aggregate (for the whole of Grazr), this makes for great discovery.

What about at the more granular level…with annotated OPML’s.

What I’m refering to is tagging a node in an OPML.

You may have an OPML of your Top 10 feeds, and you may want to tag each feed in this OPML.

Now you can search metadata in nodes within an OPML.

If I find an OPML with 300 feeds, and there are no folders, how do I find feeds on a topic within this OPML.
If each feed was tagged, then I could search the OPML with a tag…or the OPML could have it’s own tag cloud.

What if I had an OPML with 10 OPML includes in it, and each “include” had 100 feeds, that’s 1000 feeds.
If each feed was tagged, then I could search across these 10 OPML includes and find feeds about a specific topic.

Most Reading Lists (OPML’s where the nodes are feeds) come from RSS Readers, where the feeds are organised in folders, now if the value of these folders could automatically becomes the tag describing the feed, then this could happen automatically.
I’m aware this is more for convenience, and not good practice as folders may be used to manage stuff with methods other than by subject.

Related:
Searchfeedr : searching the limits and OPML search
My OPML wishlist
OPML for email groups
OPML email groups again

Lots of people tag their blog posts, and when visitors click on these blog post footer tags they get sent to Technorati Tags so they can discover other posts from the blogosphere with the same tags.

You can even alter your footer tags so when a visitor clicks a tag it launches to Technorati but limits to other posts with this tag from your blog only…you can even get a tag cloud widget called Blog Top Tag Widget.

We have mentioned using Technorati Tags to see similar tagged posts from the blogosphere or alternately similar tagged posts from one blog, well what about the middle ground, what about seeing similar tagged posts from a selection of 50 or 100 blogs.

At first I thought Technorati Favourites, but unlike the two previous ways, your Technorati Favourites page doesn’t have a tag cloud.
NOTE: it has tags to organise subscriptions into topics, but it doesn’t have an author tag cloud, ie. tags from the posts that your Favourite blog authors use in their posts.

So how can you make your own mini blogosphere tag cloud?

SuperGlu

Let’s look at SuprGlu (an old favourite)

- Import 50 feeds (darn, it lacks OPML import)…actually, I’m not sure about the limit of feeds
IMPORTANT: make sure your feed is included

- You get what looks like a blog that automatically posts content in a mixed stream from all these feed sources
- Each post title links to the native post, and each post also lists the source feed
- The tag cloud is created from the tags the feed source authors are using in their blog posts, meaning you can click a tag and see all posts from all sources that have that tag
- You get an RSS feed

Done, now each of your posts and the other feed sources posts are fed into your SuprGlu page, it’s like a mini Technorati Tags that streams posts like a blog, or you could say it looks like a multi-authored blog.

Lastly, in each of your blog posts you can enter tags that point to SuprGlu tags pages, now when a visitor is reading your blog post about “wikis” and they click the “wiki” tag to see similar posts about wikis, it will launch to the your SuprGlu “wiki” tag page.

Why do this instead of pointing your visitors to check out similar posts from the whole blogosphere…well there are just too many blogs, using a smaller feed set (mini blogpshere) cuts out a lot of crap blog posts, leaving you to see similar posts from quality blogs, blogs that you trust.
The downside is that there may be some quality blogs you have excluded from your feed set as you don’t know about them, so there is less serendipity factor, but at least it’s more filtered, where it’s bound to offer you more quality similar posts.

Maybe a similar service to SuprGlu cloud have more of a wiki feel, where people could register and submit quality blogs, this way your feed set grows to encompass more sources, but at least they are trusted quality sources…make your own communal blog tagosphere.

MySyndicaat

Another service you could use is MySyndicaat, this service is much more powerful than SuprGlu in the way of remixing feeds, but just the same it has a tag cloud.
Here is an example of a Web 2.0 news radar.

Here’s a fictional example of tags I would use for this blog post if it was about a search based web 2.0 company that has folded:

Tags (similar posts): search, web2.0, deadpool

MySyndicaat doesn’t seem to show the whole tag cloud as I see a lot of tags in these posts not featured in the tag cloud.

Examples

Now you have choices other than Technorati Tags, to be able to point from your blogs posts to similar tagged posts from other quality blogs.

If I was posting about something to do with the human condition, I could tag my posts pointing to Global Voices (click on the explore links at top of page).

If I was posting about social media or social computing, I could tag my posts pointing to the Social Media Collective.

If you know of anymore collectives on a topic, please let me know…the idea here is pointing to similar blogs posts that you know specialise in this topic…pointing to quality, not hit and miss like Technorati Tags.

More on MySyndicaat…

As I mentioned in my last post on MySyndicaat, another cool feature is tag rings, this way if someone tags something web2, you can make it appear as web 2.0 (eg. when web2 = web 2.0), otherwise you will have these similar tags (intending the same thing) messing up your tag cloud, so a bit of moderation will clean up this sort of thing happening: web2, web 2, web2.0, web-2,web-2.0, etc…

I also now notice a calendar, Google Reader Link blogs could do with this feature, and of course each radar has its own feed, but I don’t see an OPML Reading List, actually I don’t even see a source list…I’d like to view posts limited a source or a selection of sources like in Blogdigger Groups.

And for each post you can do all this good things like:
E-mail | PDF | Save | Blog this! | Related stories | Bookmark | Follow

Each news radar has different viewing options:
eg. Here is the Social Software radar as selected on a page where you can still acces the other topic radars.

OPTIONS
- Power Viewer -read it on its own page
- Mobile Viewer
- Mini Reader
- Mini Ticker
- Mini Scroll

Another nifty thing I mentioned in my last post was that for each radar (these are called feedbots), you can create a digest, ie. you can create a special digest radar that only includes posts you have manually clipped from your radars, I think you can even blog in content…kind of like Top 10 Sources.

One final thing as that on the sidebar I’d like to be able to click on a folder to see a mixed stream of posts from all the radars in the folder. In fact when you create your own radars you don’t get to organise them in folders like is shown on the homepage, this would be an awesome feature for users to showcase access to all their radars from the one portal page.

I do a lot of roundup posts as there is just too much to cover, but Buzka deserves a post of its own, ‘cause it’s kind of nifty and it’s local to me, being a Perth based company.

I found Buzka on TechCrunch via an authored post by Duncan Riley, who is Perth based, it’s great to have an insider representing our locality.

So what exactly is Buzka?

It’s social bookmarking, only you don’t tag your bookmarks, and it doesn’t look like del.icio.us for a change.

It’s more like a place to create and share your own private or public lists (called Spots) of anykind, usually on a topic, but you could use it to list a collection of:
- popular blog posts from your blog
- a blogroll
- your favourite podcasts or episodes
- your web office documents
- your favourite video clips
- etc…

Via the website or a bookmarklet you can add a bookmark and description to multiple Spots, your own and others (if you have been invited).

You get a user space, and each list you make has it’s own URL.

Here is a random user space, it’s divided into:
- Your own Spots
- Your contributed Spots
- Your Friends
- Groups
- Your comments
- People can leave you messages

So it’s basically “a social network for bookmarks collated in a list”, not sure why they have left tagging out of the design, this will come in handy to filter through lists in the future.

Here is a Spot on Perth Dining, notice on the left sidebar is the list of folders and bookmarks in this Spot, and the rest of the screen is a web view of the actual webpage.
I really like the idea of navigating web page collections from a sidebar, the first web page you will see at a Spot is the first bookmark.

You will notice that these bookmarks can also be organised into folders, kind of a list within a list, so within the Perth Dining Spot we have the sub-Spot of Big Night Out. At first I didn’t think this had a permalink, but if you right click on the name of the folder and open a new window, you get a dedicated page for a folder within a Spot, eg. Perth Dining > Cafes.
NOTE: Not sure if a single bookmark has it’s own permalink.

You can view the contents of a Spot a few different ways:
- Titles
- Titles with descriptions
- Thumbnails
- Headlines (not sure what this is?)

From a menu or links you can also jump to the about page of a Spot, leave and read comments, email a friend the Spot, and see what other Groups this Spot is shared.

Here is an example of a Group Spot, you will see:
- Spots that have been contributed to the group
- Group members
- the addition of a discussion forum

What a great idea for a simple Community of Practice, even better that a user is not restricted to a group, but can simply contribute their spot to a Group…the discussion forum is the group specific tool.

Really a group is a little more than a collection of Spots, or would Spots under a tag be more of a collection of Spots. I suppose a group is a moderated tag in a way, the group members decide what Spots are allowed in the Group, unlike an unmoderated tag which could get loaded within so many ambiguous and junk Spots.

My post on blog communities and Technorati community groups ponders on formal groups compared to tag dumping grounds.

I’ll be adding this post to my social list collection…hmm maybe my social collection post could be a Spot.

Another thing I noticed is that you can edit a Spot by drag ‘n dropping nodes in your Spot using an Outliner, or even create new folders…this could be an alternate view for a Spot, and even output to OPML.

Here’s my first Spot called Perth Web 2.0 services.

Since my Spot is a list of services, I’d like to create my own metadata like: review (point to blog posts that have reviewed this service), and features…maybe this type of content can be included in the description field.

See more more aussie web 2.0 stuff here.

This post is about formalising a blogosphere topic into more of a community, rather than just a pile of linear posts labelled with an ambiguous and non-contextual “tag”.

It’s not about tracking exact blog conversations or even know they exist, I don’t think we can do that yet, BlogPulse Conversation Tracker and megite do their job, but they don’t include all the elements involved.

So that’s conversations, and both these services could very well groups conversations into topics, much better than Technorati Tags.

Before we go on read here to catch up on blog communities, networks, conversations, discussions, clouds, and attention.

Technorati

The way Technorati Tags stands you have external blogs (blogosphere) and their tags, pinging Technorati enables it to organise the blogosphere into topic pages. It’s not useful as an way to follow conversations, it’s just a dumping ground for blog posts about the supposed same topic.

Then we have Technorati Blog Directory, where you can view topic pages according to a set of blogs, problem with this is these blogs don’t always blog about the same topic.

1. Maybe Technorati Blog Directory could be a filtered version of Technorati Tags, if you claim your blog as the topic “wiki”, then only those posts you tag “wiki” should be displayed. So your blog is a source in the “wiki” topic OPML, but only a selection of your content will appear in the latest posts (has this latest posts section disappeared??)

2. Or I want to see Technorati Tag content limited to blogs from a topic/s on the Technorati Blog Directory.

3. What about if you could limit Technorati Tags to your Technorati Favourite blog set

4. You can already search within your Technorati Favourites, so why not explore by tag…display a tag cloud from your favourite blogs.

Let’s look at the Technorati feature set:

- Blog search
- Live results (mini)
- Blog tag results (you can’t search within a tag/s)
- Blog directory (even view posts by a category)
- Blog favourites (a public RSS Reader, basically your own version of the blog directory)
- Watchlist (Similar to blog favourites in a way, but for search feeds)
- Blog profile and community, this is nearly a blog social network.
- WTF Blogging (tag posts and others can vote)…this is a blog network, only you can’t add friends and message so it’s not very social

It seems Technorati has it all, not only can you search blog content, even by topic; search for blogs by topic; track search feeds; collect, organise and read blogs by topic; have a profile and be part of a blog network; but you can also also blog content.

These last 3 parts are brought under the banner at your user space summary.

There it is: my blog, tag cloud, and my fans; blogs (people) I’m a fan of, and my Technorati blog (WTF)…also view content by tag.

Just looking at these 3 features, it’s attempting to be a blog network like MyBlogLog and blogcatalog, but also a blog network like CommonGate, Sponit, and Newsvine.

Both types of services require registration, with the former you post on your own blog, and with the latter you post on a blog provided by the service.

Favourites feedback

- You can’t view a tag cloud of your Favourites, and you can’t limit content from your favourite blogs by a Technorati tag/s
- You can’t comment on a favourite blog (whether it’s the blog profile page or the person page)
- You can’t message a favourite
- You can’t pimp up your blog page or user page with widgets

WTF feedback

- You can’t view content by user tags
- You can’t comment or chat on a post
- and the same as above, you can’t comment, message, or pimp up your user page

Compare content

Like Newsvine topics/tags, Technorati WTF has topics:

- WTF iPhone (also see external blogosphere content tag for iPhone)
- Newsvine iPhone (”the wire” is auto-tagged external news press content, and “the vine” is internal social blogging content)

Here we can see what the external press is saying about iPhone, we can see what both blog networks are saying about iPhone, and what the whole blogosphere is saying about iPhone.

There are lots and lots of blog networks on the web, not sure if there is a service that aggregates all tag content from these networks, like Technorati Tags does for blog platforms.

I suppose another aspect is what a memedigging community, like Digg, think about the tag iPhone; or a clipmarking community iPhone tag, like clipmarks; or a bookmarking community, like del.icio.us, or a memetracker like megite.

What about groups or community around a WTF topic?

I mentioned in my Newsvine post that they now offer groups, so what content benefit do we get from creating a semi-formal community around a topic. I say semi-formal because your posts can appear both in the group/s and the tag pages.

Here is the group Chocolcate Dreams, the topic is quite obvious.

For a starter you can see a member list, so the posts are only from a chosen quality based sample of sources from the whole Newsvine service.
There is also a moderator who may be the steward and look after the sustainability of the group:
- generate participation
- support (also technology)
- generate promotion
- moderate
- keep it active

All this is going to make a cleaner and cared for topic page than the general tag page on “chocolate“.
Also we can see more context, that is tags within the topic chocolate.
This type of community participation is easy to run as members are still posting from their own user space, so when they have nothing to say about chocolate, they still have a soapbox to talk about other stuff.

You will also notice that content is clipped from the general Newsvine service (what about external clipings?), so these groups are authoring content from select experts and choosing select posts from elsewhere, in attempt to create a quality topic based news page better than just a pile of posts that have a tag in common.

What do you think…

Could Technorati have a column on their Technorati Tag page for tagged posts from WTF?

Could Technorati WTF have group spaces where there are:

- select member WTF blogs
- clip posts from WTF general community about “chocolate”
- clip posts from Technorati Tags on “chocolate”
- clip posts from Technorati Search on “chocolate”
- clip posts from Technorati Blog Directory on “chocolate” (as mentioned before they don’t seem to display posts)

This would be an attempt, like Newsvine, for what’s the current news and thoughts about “chocolate” website. I think this is better than a Technorati Tag or Blog Directory or Search or WTF, why not take from all and get the best from all social input…there is so much content now, we really need filters and quality.

From the success of such a site they could really be developed into community portals like Zimbio wikizines, even webjam, by introducing other communication formats, such as forums, FAQ, Q&A, bookmarks, etc…also see GROU.PS, Nexo, clearspace x, etc…

This post was really about filtering Technorati to see a more quality based topic network.

theagoo is the latest meta-bookmark search engine, it searches across 10 social bookmark sites…basically it searches the human indexed web.
The results don’t tell you which hits came from which service and which tags were used, I’d like to keep discovering from the search results.
I’d also like to search for a tag, then within a tag, Technorati Tags doesn’t do the second bit, but then again Technorati Tag is more focused on the blog category tag part of the tagosphere.

So let’s see how many of these type of services have bitten the dust:

- Wink (used to be a meta-search bookmark engine as well as a social bookmark service, but now it is a people search engine)
- gutentag
- Gataga
- Tagosphere
- Tagground

Who’s still around:
- TagJag
- Tagbert
- TagCentral
- rel8tr
- keotag
- tagfetch
- Tagland
- TagBulb

NOTE: not all these are focused just on social website bookmarks, some include blog tags, photo’s, video’s, basically the whole tagosphere.

Related:
Socialmeter : ego bookmarks
Social bookmarks vs. free text search
Search trends: relevancy, discovery, findability
Tagging alone is not a panacea for retrieval!
Folksonomy: search vs. browse
2006 Predicition: bookmark engine

[ADDED 21/05/07 : 50 matches]

[ADDED 5/06/07: tagsahoy limits search to just your profiles]

The other day I wrote about Twitterverse, basically a word burst or tag cloud type view of Twitter, enabling a person to get an idea on what topic, or words rather, are used a lot on Twitter, makes for interesting analysis. Twitterverse also allows you to search the archives, starting April onwards.

I mentioned I’d like to track keywords (even limited to people/friends) via SMS or RSS feed, and this is something Emily from TwitterVerse has on the cards.

Now that we have Twitter keyword clouds and Twitter search, what’s next Twitter Memetracker, I’m sure Matthew Chen of megite will be into this, even for introducing more people to megite, as anything Twitter related lately will get you page visits.

On an earlier post I pointed to TwitterSearch, but again I’d like to generate a feed for each search, so I can follow tweets that contain a certain keyword.
This same post links to a TwitterSearch word burst analysis.

Twitterzone is similar to Twitterverse, with a few more features, besides a Twitter word burst cloud it also has most active Twitters, most active non-human Twitters (auto-bots, RSS feeds), and most popular links in Tweets.
The timeframes for these choices are 1 hour, day, week, month, whereas Twitterverse is just 24 hours (yesterday or today), but Twitterverse has archived search anyway…I guess they could snap shot each daily word burst cloud and archive them. [UPDATED to 1, 5, and 10 hours.]
NOTE: when I click on a word in the cloud nothing happens, I expect to see all posts containing the word within a specified time period. UPDATE: the search is now working.

I mentioned Zoomcloud on a tweet about a week ago, as a way to generate a word burst cloud for your Twitter feed, your Twitter friends feed or even the public timeline feed.

I wonder if ZoomCloud is more concept related rather than word frequency, I’m not sure how Twitterverse and Twitterzone come up with their clouds. Perhaps ZoomCloud is similar to MyFeedz (this is not just a machine tag generator but also an RSS Reader).
Maybe we could employ the concept topic mining methods used by WizAg (formerly Diggol)…let’s not forget PersonalBee.

Anyway, I don’t know about you, but I’d like to pimp up my Twitter sidebar with a few ZoomClouds, one for my feed, and one for me and my friends feed.
Why not throw a calendar in while we are there, perhaps via 30 boxes blog timeline…see more.

Also check out twitter.start4all, another Twitter directory, I listed a few others here.

[ADDED 12/04/07: Twitterment : search and trends for Twitter]

Stumble Upon is such an insightful service, basically a social bookmarking service with memedigging. But where the power lies is in fed discovery and personalisation.

By telling StumbleUpon your interests, and also by bookmarking, tagging, rating, reviewing pages it learns from you and can recommend fresh pages to you based on the community database.

So not only do you use it to submit/vote for pages and tag/review them for your collection, you also get to view other people’s collections.

This is where other services stop, ie. you have the benefit of discovering new stuff by manually looking at similar tags and similar people or subscribing to feeds.
But wouldn’t it be great if there was an added option that instead of slogging through lots and lots of links as a discovery method, you are just spoon fed links that are going to be relevant to your interests, “it’s like you’ve known me all my life”.

This is where StumbleUpon takes off, in that you can hit the Stumble button and it will show you a page that it thinks matches your current profile. From this random page (based on your attention), you can then bookmark/tag/rate/review it.
NOTE: don’t forget you can bookmark pages into the database yourself, it still works as a usual bookmarking service.

Just keep stumbling to be fed new pages, this is a new form of discovery…the next page you stumble may very well depend on the last page you stumbled, it’s all based on attention.

So not only do you bookmark pages, giving to the database, you take by stumbling pages that are already in the database…other social bookmark services don’t have this, you have to surf around yourself to find stuff.

The added bonus is that it is such a treat and exciting (and addictive), as you don’t know what your gonna get.

To learn more about it and how you can use it to drive traffic to your blog see the Dosh Dosh post, a must blog for earning your online keep.
eg. StumbleUpon footer in your blog post so people can Stumble your blog post, Stumbling your own posts, get a feed for your URL to track Stumble reviews.

BTW, there’s also a video version.

Auto-stumbling

I was thinking one step further, what about auto-stumbling.

Instead of me hitting the stumble button to see what I get, can’t I be auto-generated up to 10 bookmarks, and get these new bookmarks in my RSS Reader.

You could subscribe to a tag feed or a user feed or a search feed, but you can’t subscribe to an attention feed, and there are reasons for this…

The process is: after each Stumble you do an action (rate/review/tag), and based on this and your past history, the next stumble can be generated.
If you are auto-generated 10 Stumble’s, this means Stumble 2 isn’t taking into consideration the attention you gave to Stumble 1, and Stumble 3 isn’t taking into consideration the attention you gave to Stumble 1 and 2, and Stumble 4 isn’t taking into consideration the attention you gave to Stumble 1, 2 and 3 and so on.

But does this matter all that much, as long as the feed only gives you 10 at a time this is a small enough amount to still be relevant, in knowing it could be more relevant if you use it the usual way.

Within your RSS Reader, you could have the choice to click on the footer flare of each Stumble and action it (rate/review/tag). This would update the database and only when you have done this would the feed issue you a batch of another 10 Stumble’s.

I don’t know about all the technical aspects, but I like the idea of taking Stumble Upon one step further and into other applications. Maybe the auto-generated attention feed could just update you with one item at a time, this way it will work as optimal as usual.

This is a weird metaphor but here goes:
- surfing social bookmarks is spooning what you like and eating it (bookmarking it)
- clicking the Stumble button is being spoon fed bookmarks which you can choose to swallow (bookmark) or spit out if you don’t like it
- auto-stumbling would be like you have already ingested the bookmarks, and you’d have to throw-up the one’s you don’t like.

del.icio.us needs more metadata input fields, and I want to create my own.

I like that you can mark a bookmark private/public, in Furl you can mark a bookmark read/unread…I want to make my own.

I’ve expressed my metadata issue in a past post, about more field types like CiteULike and perhaps facets.

I don’t want more tag fields, to me tags are topic (aboutness), all I want is to be able to sort my bookmarks in different ways, maybe you could call these facets, not sure:

1. Format - blog post, webpage, news item, journal article, search page, other (default)

This way I can sort all my bookmarks to just blog posts without having to use another tool like CrispyBlogPosts.

2. Content - review, how-to, analysis, etc…

Now I can see all my bookmarks that are just blog posts and are also reviews

3. Service - addon, bookmarklet, plugin, extension, desktop, tray, web

Now I can see all my bookmarks that are just review type of blog posts and are also desktop products

4. File - html, rss, opml, xml, etc…

Show me all bookmarks that are feeds
- maybe use 1. Format to sort which feeds are just blog feeds, news feeds, search feeds, etc…

Folders

Or can something like this be solved with folders…

Items that are blog posts can live in the blog post folder, this way I don’t have to sort, I just click on the folder.
And you could add folders eg. review folder + blog post folder + desktop folder.

Spurl, Clipmarks and Netvouz have both folders and tags.

In the case of Netvouz a bookmark can only appear in one folder, haven’t tested the others, but the idea is that other bookmarks with the same tag are chosen not to appear in a folder as it is not intended to be part of this folder collection.

Each folder doesn’t have a separate tag set, it is just that you can make different bucket type categories or topics, unfortunately del.icio.us tag bundles don’t have their own webpage.
But even if they did they are still not exclusive bundles, if I had a bundle called “KM Adoption”, the tags Pros and Cons may have bookmarks about the Pros and Cons of “mobile phones”…resulting in mixed content.

I guess these a bundles of tags not bundles of bookmarks.

So the idea is I can tag a post about mobile search with the tags “mobile”, “search” and I’d also like to be able to choose more than one folder to place it in. But in this case I may not care about the mobile world too much so I don’t have a folder collection about “mobiles”, but I do have a folder collection about “search”.

This post can be found at my tag “mobile” and my tag “search”.
This post can be found in my folder collection “Search Tools”.

When I see it in my Search Tools folder collection it may display the tags “mobile”, “search”…then I could say show me other bookmarks within this folder with the tag “mobile”, or show me other bookmarks within any folder with the tag “mobile”, or show me all bookmarks with the tag “mobile” from my whole account (whether it lives in a folder or not).

Channels

WTP is a webpage monitoring service, but why I bring it up is that you can have channels within the one service.

I wish del.icio.us had this, but I presume this would mean 2 different tag sets, like 2 channels within the same account.
This would be good for a related issue I have, I use 2 del.icio.us accounts for different type of content otherwise the one account gets too messy. Adding a bookmark is a hassle as I am always logging in to one account if I previously bookmarked on the other account.

Private Tags

I’d also like to have private tags, as I may tag an article about Folksonomies with these tags - Folksonomy, Taxonomy, Pros, Cons…these real granular analytical tags like Pros, Cons are hopeless for the community at large, it only means something to me.

Minus Tags

What I like about Simpy is that it has minus (-) tags:

Show me Folksonomy+Pros, but if any of these Pros and Folksonomy bookmarks have the tag Taxonomy then I don’t want to see them.

Let’s not talk about fielded search, Simpy is the champ…Diigo is also good.

Simpy also has Groups (also see Searchles, BlinkList, CiteULike, Connotea, Diigo, ma.gnolia), BlueDot has a personal friends group, which isn’t a formal group.

Related:
Folksonomies: Unique features
My del.icio.us issues plus blog tagging

TechCrunch has an informative post about Tag2Find, basically tagging files o your PC…also see Stored Tagging File Utility.

Mike explains that Vista has a tagging component but it is not very prominent. Tag2Find lives in your systems tray, click on it, enter tags and drag in your files, or find files by tag, the larger view also has a tag cloud.

I wonder if you can sort by format, this way I could tag my Outlook emails (but it would be cumbersome to make msg files in order to tag them, I’ll stick to Taglocity.

Eventually in a web office we will have tags for all our documents anyway, again I wonder if these office 2.0 suites have a tag cloud merged with the tags from each product. You could then even choose to merge multiple user clouds.

Also check out Krawler[x], some sort of desktop app that lets you tag files, has an RSS Reader, a social network, etc…it seems to be an enterprise community network tool.

Glorum seems a real simple service, it is being used as a Q&A service, and a lot of the questions are programming based.

Basically to add an item give it a title and description and tags.

Browse the recent items, browse items by tag, browse a users recent items (also by tag)

People can leave comments, and rate items.

It is a very easy and self managed Q&A service…although it does remind me of other types of services, as it is kind of like having your own generic blog within a communal service (different than del.icio.us as every item has a permalink).

Other than Q&A services it reminds me of:
CommonGate
NoteTagger
TagFacts
Tagsurf…and the rest of the Tag-based forums.