The success of tag clouds has emerged on the use of clouds for diverse purposes, not only including tags. Twitscoop is an interesting tool, where recent activity on Twitter is empashized by means of a…
As the authors point out, Zotero is “a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage and cite your research sources”. Zotero is a Firefox plugin for managing your research references, which considerably eases…
Yahoo! is working in an interesting tag-based approach for image retrieval, TagExplorer. Taking advantage of the tags users added in the well-known image-sharing site Flickr, TagExplorer uses them as metadata to retrieve images. There are…
Twitter has become a very popular means to share any kind of short message with your contacts. You can now stay tuned to whatever your friends and contacts share with you, and even receive these…
TagCrowd presents an interesting application to summarize the content of a text in a tag cloud. The input can be a web page, a file or plain text, and you can configure different settings such…
I really love Google’s mail service, Gmail. I use it as my e-mail service; there is no doubt it provides a lot of interesting features we cannot find within other e-mail platforms, i.e. an integrated…
Do social tagging and folksonomy have the same meaning? I think this remains an unsolved issue. One might say social tagging and folksonomy refer to the same concept or idea, but others might not agree….
I decided to start this blog with a brief review on what are social tags. Tags are an open way to assign keywords to a resource, in order to describe it and later retrieve it…
2nd Apr 2009
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