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Technorati Launches Tags

Technorati Launches Tags 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
Tags are a simple, yet powerful, social software innovation. Today millions of people are freely and openly assigning metadata to content and conversations. Unlike rigid taxonomy schemes that people dislike, the ease of tagging for personal organization with social...

Why Technorati tags don't

Why Technorati tags don't 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
Tagging has become the latest hype word-du-jour, mostly due to services such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and now, Technorati. Clay Shirky and others have written strong statements for this folksonomy phenomenon.

I personally love tags. They are a very cool way of attaching meaning to information - essentially put the semantics in the web in the "Semantic Web" sense, even if the metadata is dissociated from the pages themselves. But as a non-English speaker I see a potentially fatal flaw here: Most Internet users don't speak English as their first language. Even if I speak decent English and use a lot of English services, I still tag things in both English and my native language.

And that means that tags will become "language polluted." Take a look at the Technorati tag for "Macintosh& ;quot;, for example. Many of the blog entries are in Japanese.

If you look at Orkut, many of the parts of it suddenly became &a mp;quot;owned" by Brasilians, which essentially drove away English speakers (I haven't checked how they have handled this). USENET coped with this by having separate hierarchies for each country (so sfnet is all Finnish) and "accepted" languages on each newsgroup. But tags don't have any way to determine the language.

The situation is worse than it should be, because entries on RSS feeds and blogs almost never state what their language is. In fact, I would guess that most RSS feeds claim that the language is "en-US" regardless of their actual content. People like me write in two languages on the same blog. Atom has the possibility of setting the language-per-entry, but I sincerely doubt that anyone will bother to set the language, unless they are relatively passionate about the subject.

There are three cases of "language collision" on tags (I'm using English and Finnish as an example only here).

1. The tag is different in English and in Finnish. For example "fishing" and "kalastus". This should pose no problem, as the folksonomies grow on each of the tags independently.
2. The tag is the same in English and in language Finnish, but the meaning of the tag is different. In this case, the dominant mass of the users will "hijack" the tag.
3. The tag is the same in both languages, but the web pages will be in different languages. This is the case with things like trade marks (Apple, Macintosh, Nokia), or when people like to tag Finnish pages with English tags (like me: I use the word "blog" to mark any significant articles about blogs, regardless of the language). This reduces the usefulness of tags for people who do not understand Finnish.

There is also an additional tagging problem with languages such as Finnish: the same word can be conjugated and written in multiple ways, depending on the context. It is somewhat the same as the problem of using different words for the same concept, but it does make the number of potential strings increase three-fourfold.

There are few solutions to this problem: and probably all of them involve some sort of heuristic to determine the language of the tag and the web page. Tagging is still a relatively new technique to be adopted in mass classification of things, but in order for it to become truly successful, one must still remember localization. Otherwise, it will be the dominance of the masses

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Technorati, Tags, Semantics

Technorati, Tags, Semantics 06/17/2005 04:38 PM

Hey, the Technorati beta is up. Looks much nicer, though I wish they’d lose the dude with the megaphone; goatees are so 1993. (Hey look, Technorati and Newsweek, sitting in a tree.) Among other things, the technorationals are making a concerted effort to prove that my doubts about tagging are misplaced—so are Shirky et al at You’re It!. It’s become obvious that tags are useful enough as a place to park search words for pictures & music & other stuff that doesn’t have words to search. Furthermore, I’ve heard a dozen compelling stories from people who are using tags to organize their own information and track trends; so it’s looking like the answers are: Yes, tagging is useful; No, it’s not a replacement for full-text search, even partially. On the subject of search, Sun’s Search Guy Steve Green is trying to push over the boundary between search and semantics.

Technorati Tags 101 Screencast

Technorati Tags 101 Screencast 03/14/2005 05:34 PM
We have the best users. I was blown away when I checked my Technorati watchlist this morning to find a screencast done by Alex Barnett, where he explains not only how he uses Technorati and its tags:, but also...

Adding Technorati Tags with MarsEdit

Adding Technorati Tags with MarsEdit 02/01/2005 10:07 PM
Laura Lemay: “As part of this whole tagging experiment I wrote a little applescript for MarsEdit to automatically insert the ‘Technorati Tags’ HTML at the bottom of each post... After installing it, you use it by tagging your post and then just choosing the script from the Script menu.”

A great introduction to Technorati tags

A great introduction to Technorati tags 03/14/2005 05:34 PM
Wow, now this is what I call some contributed documentation!...

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation

Technorati bl0gging tags: Good idea,
terrible implementation 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Here’s an idea: what if when I wrote weblog entries about General Motors, I included a special tag, a keyword tag, that let everyone who wanted to read blog entries about General Motors read my weblog article, without otherwise having to subscribe to my blog? Makes sense. Now, should it be “gm” or “GM” or “generalmotors” or “general motors” or “General Motors” or “GM Corporation” or … ? Therein lies the fundamental problem with Technorati…

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Technorati Live 8 launches

Technorati Live 8 launches 06/24/2005 09:59 PM

We just launched the Technorati Live 8 site.

Technorati Live 8

Technorati has teamed up with Live 8 to bring you the latest conversations about the campaign to Make Poverty History. Read first hand accounts of the concerts and events, and get all the news and opinion from the blogosphere.

We've also put together some resources to help you find your way around Live 8 and the blog world:

What is Live 8? Which organisations are behind Live 8?

Are you new to blogging? Find out what it's all about.

Get a Live 8 badge for your blog.

Join in the conversation and find out how to make your posts show up on Technorati.

Do more than just blog - contact the G8 leaders.

The posts listed on the Technorati Live 8 site have been written by bloggers worldwide and appear in real time from Technorati's index of 1.1 million blogs. Find out more about Technorati.

Joe Trippi called us about two weeks ago with this idea. Thanks to a guest appearance of Suw Charman as the producer of the site and extra hard work by the Technorati team, we were able to get this site out in time.

This is such a good opportunity for nations like the United States and Japan to helped their damaged images and also show their solidarity to a cause that they shouldn't have to think twice about. I'm amazed at how poor the response of some of the developed nations has been to this call. Hopefully this concert and the voice of the blogs will help get their attention.

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New Technorati beta launches

New Technorati beta launches 04/09/2004 04:12 PM

I'm proud to announce the new Technorati redesign has launched, available at www.technorati.com. Some highlights of the new design:

1. Three free email or RSS watchlists for individuals - all you have to do is sign up as a member. Of course, people who have paid for watchlists are grandfathered in as well.


2. Lots of UI fixes and tweaks. We listened hard to all of you who told us that our UI needed a lot of work. I hope that this is a step in the right direction. We tried to do what we could to humanize the language as well - using words like "conversations" and "references" and "sources" to help better describe what Technorati does, for example. I'm sure there's a long way to go, and lots more improvements we can make. Help us.


3. Keyword Search beyond just RSS. We improved our post detection capabilities, going beyond what pure RSS gives you - so that you can search the entire post, not just the summaries often found in RSS feeds.


4. Better explanations and interfaces for Current Events and NewsTalk (formerly called Breaking News). Click on the arrows to expand or compress blogger commentary, to allow a "quick view" or a more context-rich, deeper view into the data.


5. BookTalk (formerly called Hot Products), a listing of the most talked-about books, DVDs, and other products in the blogosphere in the last 24 hours.


6. Improved features for weblog authors: First, a more robust, reliable "Claim Your Blog" codebase. Once you, as an author, have claimed your weblog, you get a bunch of new features, including the blog rank for your blog. (Find out how far off of the top 100 you are...) We're also working on a number of other "Author Dashboard" type features coming soon.


7. Caching, speedups, and bug fixes. Almost too many to mention.

A few points to note:

1. Response time of the searches is still not reliably fast enough. Some searches are fast, some take a long time. We know this is unacceptable, and we are working on this. Site reliability and faster response time are our top priorities. We are working hard to improve the user experience.


2. We're working on providing RSS and email watchlists for keyword searches as well, but it wasn't ready for the cut, so it'll go out as soon as it is ready, which should be quite soon. In the meantime, you can do keyword searches on the site, but can't get RSS or email subscriptions yet.

Send us feedback! Use feedback@technorati.com to send feedback to the Technorati team, or send comments directly to me at david-blog@sifry.com. Your thoughts and comments are extremely important to us.

Thanks again for all your support.

ProNet: Technorati Beta Launches

ProNet: Technorati Beta Launches 06/17/2005 02:06 PM
The team at Technorati just announced the launch of their new beta site, which collects much of the features and functionality that have been available on the popular blog-tracking service and wraps them in a friendly and fun interface. In...

Gary Price Launches List of
Google-Related Domains

Gary Price Launches List of
Google-Related Domains 05/04/2004 08:02 AM
Gary Price has a very cute list of Google-related domains available at http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/google_names_1.htm . Note that these are not domain names necessarily REGISTERED by Google, but domain names which have...

Wists new features - exploiting tags to
improve a search engine - global search
over users, tags and items

Wists new features - exploiting tags to
improve a search engine - global search
over users, tags and items 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
We've added a global search feature to Wists. The search will look up users, tags and individual item titles and...

Related Searches

Related Searches 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Google is testing a new feature that suggests related searches (screenshot). The something different link apparently suggests a whole new batch of related searches. Update: The screenshots appear to be forgeries. Please let me know if you've also seen this related search feature....

While not directly related to OS X, I
just had to ...

While not directly related to OS X, I
just had to ... 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

While not directly related to OS X, I just had to point out that Pixelgirl has a collection of some of the sexiest desktop pictures I've ever seen (safe for work, not that kind of sexy). One of them coupled with Terence Welsh's Helios screensaver and you'll spend a lot more time just staring at your Mac.

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Microsoft SMS Related Websites

Microsoft SMS Related Websites 04/01/2005 11:15 AM

Other iTunes Related Updates

Other iTunes Related Updates 04/28/2004 01:08 PM

Flickr related-tag browser

Flickr related-tag browser 03/30/2005 02:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: The Flickr related tag browser: "When you search for a tag all the related tags and the last 36 photos with tag are load. To see more images you just have to click next." Link (Thanks, Bibi!)

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Flickr Related Tag Browser 03/29/2005 06:54 AM
Flickr Related Tag Browser

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More Ramones related bits

More Ramones related bits 09/19/2004 11:58 AM
David Pescovitz: The Black Block boutique at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris is selling a French artist's series of Photoshopped takes on various rock album covers. I snapped this shot of a c.2003 altered version of the Ramones' self-titled debut. As we know, it's sadly tim e for an update.

In other Ramones news, here's an NPR interview with filmmaker Michael Gramglia about End of the Century, the controversial Ramones documentary. Link

"Flickr Related Tag Browser"

"Flickr Related Tag Browser" 03/30/2005 05:17 PM

"Read the related article"

"Read the related article" 05/22/2004 03:49 AM

Hot Tags

Hot Tags 03/26/2005 07:40 PM
Neat index on Flickr... In the last 24 hours hail, tourists, rodeo, semanasanta, goodfriday, watercolor buddies, fullmoon, lamb, luna, gravestone, diptych, stlouis, easter, uae, toddler, luke, religious, nikon, friday Over the last week dilomar05, holi, pcforum, sexyblogger, goodfriday, dilo purim,...

Mac tags

Mac tags 03/29/2005 05:06 PM
Why is it that it seems many more Mac owners decorate their laptops with stickers than do PC notebook owners? Maybe it's because we PC owners want to be able to re-sell our notebooks while Mac owners assume they're going to own their machines till they wear them down to the rims. [Technorati tag: macintosh]...

Look Ma, No Tags

Look Ma, No Tags 07/24/2002 06:29 PM
XML's success can be measured not only in terms of deployment, but also in terms of inspiring competitors. Kendall Clark examines one such tagless competitor, YAML.

Corrupted Files and Related Errors

Corrupted Files and Related Errors 03/14/2005 05:35 PM

Two MySQL Related Job Openings at Yahoo!

Two MySQL Related Job Openings at Yahoo! 04/23/2004 01:25 AM
I know I've tried this in the past, but we're still looking... Here's info about two MySQL related jobs at Yahoo! I've also included my personal take on some of the benefits of working at Yahoo below them. If you're interested in either job (or one of the many other job openings at Yahoo), please send me your resume (plain text, PDF, or OpenOffice preferred, MS Word not). If you know someone else who might be interested, pass this...

Brace for Google-Related Giddiness

Brace for Google-Related Giddiness 04/30/2004 03:01 PM
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Projects related to Medieval Japan

Projects related to Medieval Japan 04/14/2004 07:47 PM
Sengoku Daimyo: Projects related to medieval Japan.

References Related to the Internet &
Psychology

References Related to the Internet &
Psychology 05/17/2004 05:59 AM
References Related to the Internet & Psychology
http://construct. haifa.ac.il/~azy/refindx.htm

An excellent resource of references related to the Internet and Psychology created and maintained by Azy Barak, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, University of Haifa. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide.

Available internet related business
services

Available internet related business
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Framework for Game Related Research

Framework for Game Related Research 01/24/2004 10:36 PM
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Catalog of Information Related to
Homelessness

Catalog of Information Related to
Homelessness 12/17/2003 07:17 AM
The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty has an online catalog of over 5,000 publications, Web sites, and other data sources related to homelessness and poverty. It's available at http://www.weingart.org/institute . There is a simple catalog search from...

Microsoft seeks XML-related patents

Microsoft seeks XML-related patents 01/23/2004 04:13 PM
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U.S. Expands Mad Cow-Related Beef Recall

U.S. Expands Mad Cow-Related Beef Recall 12/28/2003 03:09 PM
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Yahoo Related Search... News Again?

Yahoo Related Search... News Again? 06/25/2004 08:46 PM
This is odd. Search Engine Lowdown is reporting on a posting at ResourceShelf that briefly describes Yahoo Search's "refinements" or "suggestions." The odd thing is that this isn't new at all. I know because I worked on the original version about a year ago (and then Google copied it). At the time we called it "related search" and probably still do. That project was a lot of fun, too. :-) See Also: Debugging, step #1 Y! Search Easter Egg Google...

Liberal XML parsing related to
personality?

Liberal XML parsing related to
personality? 02/12/2004 07:41 PM
The heat of the discussion on liberal XML parsing has subsided, so this is actually a little late. That's because I wasn't sure if I should post this. But a post by Dave Winer today convinced me to post it anyway. Let me just say up front that I could be completely wrong. ?

Microsoft snags XML-related patent

Microsoft snags XML-related patent 02/12/2004 06:13 PM
The company wins another U.S. patent for XML-related technology, one of the first in an expected flood of filings surrounding the fast-growing standard.

Technology Related Radio Stations

Technology Related Radio Stations 07/12/2004 08:58 PM

Thanks to Lockergnome for the link but if you are into listening to Technical Radio Stations online here is a link with a long list of shows. [www.kalnet.com/~ussr over/excel.html]

New Forum: .NET Framework and Related
Technologies

New Forum: .NET Framework and Related
Technologies 06/07/2002 07:44 AM
Microsoft has committed vast resources to its .NET initiative. Although still in its infancy stage, it is clear that the technology is going to grow by multitudes. We are blessed in the moderator department with not only a reworld .net related programmer, but a .net course instructor as well.
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Technorati launches Related Tags