Archive for the ‘Folksonomy’ Category

Is there anything worth watching on NZ TV?

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

New “web 2.0″ NZ TV listing site http://throng.co.nz works like I’d want a TV listing site to work, if I wanted a TV listing site. It shows what’s on now, soon and tonight, with weightings for popularity. That’s three out of four, but Throng also tells me “Members may personalise their listings to highlight their favourite shows and hide ones they’re not interested in.” Thing is tho, most of what’s on TV, I am not interested in. What I want is to see the odd rare thing that I might actually be interested in watching. So, rather than just hide all of it, I think I’ll ignore Throng. If there’s something on that you think I’ll really like, would you please let me know.

Tags as Community

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

I heard that communities are forming around agreements to use particular tags for, say flickr. One was around Gay Pride Week in Minneapolis. It is pride2005?

At the recent meeting of the Online Deliberative Democracy group, we agreed to use the tag ODDC. That works nicely in Gataga.

Gataga: Search by tags, anywhere that tags

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Gataga is a search engine that allows you to search using tags across multiple sites that use tags.

Right now, it searches: del.icio.us, flickr, technorati, blogmarks, blinklist,jots, spurl, furl, podcast, simpy, connotea.

That list is an eye-opener all by itself.