25th Apr 2010

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A glossary of terms related to social tagging

There are many terms related to –and many times created because of– the social tagging phenomenon. The following is a list of terms that are relevant to social tagging. This list may become larger throughout…

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7th Jul 2009

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Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web

I’ve recently read the book “Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web“, by Gene Smith, an interesting overview on the art of tagging. I would recommend it to whomever is interested in discovering what tags…

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18th Mar 2009

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Zotero: Save, manage, tag and cite your research references with Firefox

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…

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10th Mar 2009

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#hashtags: Tag trends in Twitter

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…

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10th Mar 2009

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TagCrowd: Make your own tag cloud from any text

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…

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23rd Feb 2009

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Gmail’s labeling: why not free tagging?

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…

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9th Feb 2009

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What are social tags?

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…

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