Why you’re gonna be hearing the word “tag” a lot
Powazek — “But other people have already talked about all that, but what I find truly exciting about tags is that they’re all about browsing. And not the directory/library/annoyingly hidden kind of browsing that led to the death of the Yahoo Directory and the emergence of the single Google box - the fun kind of browsing, like shoe shopping on Haight Street.”
If you don’t “get” tags, Derek offers an outstanding introduction. Tags look like this and this when you add them all together (i.e., socially available bookmarks, tags, or labels). To really understand tags, you’re going to have to give Technorati, Flickr, or Del.icio.us a try. You can also get a taste of tags with gmail, but the flavor is different because the tags aren’t socially available to others.
By the way, here is a really, really quick introduction to tags: Tags are a bottoms up way of adding information to other information. Tags are metadata.
In any event, read Powazek’s excellent posting on tags…
January 27th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Oh, it’s the latest fad. Well why not just say so.
January 27th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Yes, a fad. Still, you’ll hear a lot about it. Might as well bone up on it a little.
February 1st, 2005 at 5:49 pm
Yeah, just like blogging was a fad 4 years ago. It’ll never last.