Tag: TAGS

Google is full of API's, allowing users to hook up pieces of information and build their own tools and applications that access Google's services. Google has publicly opened access to Picasa Web Albums via the Picasa Web Albums data API. What does this mean to you? Well, if you've been thinking about a way to integrate photos and tags into some kind of network or application, show photos together ...

The last time Flickr tried this there was such a backlash that they supported both the old Flickr IDs and corporate overlord ones. But that was then, and this is now... The Flickr News blog just announced that as of March 15th, the only access to your Flickr account will be via a Yahoo! ID. So, the last holdouts in denial of the acquisition will either have to quit the service or link to a Yahoo! ...

From the Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day blog: Yahoo! Research continues working to merge several of it's social properties in interesting ways - this time with the upcoming release of Tagmaps. Tagmaps aim to integrate tags with Yahoo! Maps - with the tags overlaid on top of the map. As you Zoom/Pan the map, relevent tags get place on the display. Yahoo! has created 3 demo apps: World Explorer - ...

If you have many things to remember, and don't want to clutter your desk and computer with a sticky note mess, try out Helipad. Their online hosted note application makes it easy to create notes and tag them with keywords for easy locating. With the free online application you can draft up anything that you normally would in a word processor--all you need is an internet connection. Helipad's auto ...

Motionbox, which our own Chris Gilmer told you about on September 6th, has added a killer new feature. The ability to deep-tag your videos, which means stopping the video at a particular frame, tagging it, then moving on. No one else currently has this feature in their video app. YouTube can be tagged on the whole video, but not tagged at such a deep level. Motionbox is getting innovative in its ...

I get sick of my web page div tags being all square by default. Sure, I can change them, but that doesn't mean I want to. You got me, I'm lazy, but who isn't to some degree? It is just something that I feel I shouldn't have to do. Using graphics to spice up a div is good enough for most projects, but it still isn't giving me truly rounded curvy divs either and can be time consuming. Well, for ...

Synapse is an online life manager. As of yet, there is no information as to whether this is a free web based application or not. Synapse is working up to their October 2006 release date, and it looks like it has some nice potential. The Synapse website lists off the main features that it will help users to manage their lives with. These include: People - personal contact manager Calendar - ...

del.icio.us is at it again, and this time they've added site thumbnails to the popular links on the homepage. Unfortunately, this is the only place thumbnails exist, but it's at least a step towards catching up to some of their competitors in this particular department. Also making (another) appearance on the homepage is the re-introduction of popular tags, along with (from what I remember) some ...

Ahh, Technorati, what would we do without you. You are the reason we obsessively tag all our posts, and you dutifully respond to our pings in mere minutes (under 5 according to Technorati Principal Engineer Kevin Marks) to crawl our data. On today, your third birthday, you provide us with even more excitement, in the form of a spiffy re-design and some interesting new features. The new design is ...

As a Mac OS X user, I've written about Delibar, a del.icio.us bookmarks menu for the menubar, over on TUAW a few times now. But wouldn't it be great if somebody ported it to Windows, so PC users could join in on the fun? Ask and ye shall receive, boys and girls. Deliwin is a Windows port of Delibar, allowing access to your del.icio.us bookmarks via the system tray. One of the nice features of ...

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 ...

Tags are somewhat of an acquired taste. From what I've seen, the "average" computer user doesn't really get tags. So maybe TagMan can get those stragglers into the action. It is nothing more and nothing less than a hangman game, using tags. You can choose from Technorati, Squidoo, del.icio.us, or Flickr. My personal favorite is Flickr, plus, there's a Bitty browser version of that. The ...