Continuing Web 2.0 coverage…
I snuck into the Tagging workshop when the guard’s back was turned. A couple great ideas were presented even in just the final 15 minutes.
- “the first derivative of tag popularity is interestingness.” Tag recency is a hugely valuable piece of metadata. Check out Flickr’s “hot tags” feature, broken down into categories (last 24 hrs, last 7 days). If you store timestamps with tags, generating these lists is pretty easy.
- community tagging is one of the next big things — what tags are new/popular in my community? For example, look at a geographic area as a community, e.g. “what tags are most popular in Berlin?”
- a neat new feature idea with no obvious implementation: expiration of interest. Let the user tag something in a way that expires after a preset period, e.g. “I’m tagging things about Greece now, but after my trip next month I don’t care any more.” I need to flesh this out more.
Also, I made this important technical discovery: when 200 people crowd into a room built for 150, it’s at least 5°F cooler on the floor.
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updated: 2005-10-05 20:34:37
