Tag: TAGGING

BEA Systems, known for its leading enterprise infrastructure software, is getting set to launch its suite of corporate search and collaboration products. These three new applications look ready to help businesses with some Web 2.0 technologies including RSS feeds, tagging, and mashup platforms. Hey, enterprise business, here's your chance to roughly equal the kind of community building web ...

Platial announced on their blog the other day some fairly major upgrades to MapKit. Some of the new features for MapKit include comment moderation, map updating via RSS (or CSV), interface enhancements, and more. Platial, if you aren't familiar, allows you to create your own maps using the Google Maps interface, and allows you to share your maps with others. For example, you can create a map of ...

MP3 files have had tag properties forever, and it actually seems somewhat odd that they're not accessible in Windows Explorer, as part of the file properties pane. AudioShell fixes that, by exposing the audio file's id3 tags right within Windows Explorer where they can be viewed and updated. AudioShell supports editing file tags individually, or doing groups of files all at once. It adds a ...

For I don't know how long, Yahoo! News has provided the means to rate (aka recommend) news stories. It's not a simple "thumbs up/down" but a five-star scale. At the top of each topic page at Yahoo! News you can find links to "Most emailed," "Most viewed," and "Most recommended." The most recommended stories bubble to the top at several places (along with their respective RSS feeds): All news ...

Drifting ever closer to YouTube country, Google Video got a substantial update last week. Among the new features are the ability to rate videos, tag (or "label," as Google prefers) them, and leave comments. Additionally, Google Video now has blogging features, allowing you post video directly to Blogger, MySpace, LiveJournal, and TypePad. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's possible to sort ...

One from the department of the inevitable: TagFetch is a search engine that pulls results from a variety of tag-friendly sites based on the tag(s) you enter. It's got a clean, usable interface with a streamlined Google-like front page. You can choose what kinds of results you want to see, i.e. news (Newsvine, Reddit), blogs (Technorati, Feedster), bookmarks (del.icio.us), or media (Flickr, ...

According to Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion, eBay is going for a Web 2.0 trifecta and working on bringing blogs, wikis, and tagging to its auction sellers. Blogs and wikis will be launched at the eBay Live conference later this month and serve a variety of purposes, such as enhancing a store or discussing collectibles. Blogs will be free and each eBay Blog will have a URL like ...

Well, this is unexpected. Slashdot has launched a new social bookmarking feature a la del.icio.us. The new system has the requisite tagging, bookmarklet and Popular Bookmarks page, but beyond that it's very rudimentary—there's no way to browse by tags, for instance. Slashdot doesn't seem to be trying to take on del.icio.us, though. According to CmdrTaco, Slashdot Bookmarks "is primarily ...

Sociable is a plugin for Wordpress that adds cute link icons to each of your blog posts that users can click on to quickly add the post to their favorite social bookmark service like del.icio.us or news sites like Digg, Newsvine, or Fark. The plugin can be configured to show icons for any of the 24 (and counting) supported services, and installing it is, as with most Wordpress plugins, a snap. ...

Pixrat is basically del.icio.us for photos. I don't say that disparragingly, though--Pixrat works as advertised and will definitely be useful for some people. By clicking on the Pixrat bookmarklet when viewing a page with a photo on it you can give the photo a description and tags, then later you can browse your boomarked photos with handy thumbnails, optionally searching by tag. You can also, of ...

I run a linkblog that mirrors my del.icio.us links via a contrived set of PHP scripts I whipped up one night and which quits working every couple months. SlashLinks looks like a much better solution. It's a tool whose tagline is "Own Your Del.icio.us Links!" that scoops up your del.icio.us bookmarks and republishes them on your own web site with a template of your own design. It rolls ...