Tagging - web 2 expo 2008

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tagging

tagging opportunities & challenges of scale

definitions

tag
Pronunciation: ’tag
Function: noun
Etymology:
Middle English tagge;
akin to Middle Low German tagge, tacke
Date: 14th century
Definitions:
1 : a loose hanging piece of cloth : tatter
2 : a metal or plastic binding on an end of a shoelace
3 : a piece of hanging or attached material; specifically : a loop, knot, or tassel on a garment
4 a : a brief quotation used for rhetorical emphasis or sententious effect b : a recurrent or characteristic verbal expression c : tagline
5 a : a cardboard, plastic, or metal marker used for identification or classification <license tags >
6 : a detached fragmentary piece : bit
7 : a graffito in the form of an identifying name or symbol
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grodscorp/1420961279/

more specifically, tagging is…
unstructured
by (l2r): carf, steelmonkey, anarchosyn, 0olong, Daniel Williams

social

organic

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1113/534748833_f51c84dc71_b.jpg by: Rupert Taylor-Price • http://www.flickr.com/photos/rupertuk/534748833 equal to 100 heights of mt. everest

extend beyond the yellow river
by: J. F. Kr • http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwang7/486474760/

cover the floor of 14 Super Wal-Marts
by: ratterrell • http://www.flickr.com/photos/ratterrell/4481631/

tags on flickr, trajectory break for a personal story

tags on flickr, trajectory

behaviors

growth is exponential

increasing sophistication of use
“ I exist”
concepts: “ birthday” “ party” “ vacation” 12 42 14 50

me and the other – “here I am!!”
making my stuff “findable”
numbers explode
many more “concepts” to define & to search for

“ Hi! Can we play?”
my friends annotate
formalized interactions
the commons

the commons

Monday 09:25

Monday 09:30

Monday 09:37

Monday 09:46

Monday 10:00

Monday 10:10

Monday 10:18

Monday 10:36

Monday 10:36 1 HOUR

Monday 10:36 1 HOUR 150 TAGS

Monday 10:36

Monday 10:45

Monday 10:56

Monday 11:16

Monday 11:47

Monday 12:00

Monday 12:20

Monday 12:20 3 HOURS

Monday 12:20 3 HOURS 767 TAGS

Monday 12:20

Monday 12:55

Monday 13:14

Monday 14:26

Monday 15:40

Wednesday 17:03

Thursday 10:49

Thursday 10:49 24 HOURS

Thursday 10:49 24 HOURS 11,000 TAGS

sly, russian, mathematical magic

clustering
Inferred “tags”

hot tags
Inferred “tags”

places
Inferred “tags”

inferred geo locations
“ hot tag” + location tag (i.e. “capital” + “washington d.c.”)
places

watch this space

sub tags
people tags
regions (think video)
more metadata by: .schill, beckyb

Explore / Tags / aero:model=a319
more metadata: machinetags by: .schill, beckyb 4 aero:type 1586 aero:tail 94 aero:special 1808 aero:series 2 aero:port 2404 aero:model 1574 aero:man 3143 aero:airport 2342 aero:airline 1 aero:airlene 2 aero:aiport 9 aero:ICAO Photos Namespace:Predicate

more metadata: machinetags

“ suggest” tags
“ correct” tags
“ play” tags
more interaction

is this interesting?
is this related? (places, events)
is this a story?
is it news?
more “network” magic by (l2r): antitezo, sheng-fa lin 林勝發 , pingnews.com, TrevorLowe

increasing surface area
tag cloud
greatest challenge

search
greatest challenge

explore/places/calendar
greatest challenge

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Tagging - web 2 expo 2008

by Kakul Srivastava on Apr 28, 2008

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