Kevin Marks gave an introduction to tagging and even better, put it up online. So now I can point people there instead of stumbling through explanations myself. Cool.
On a side note, I've been behind on blogging and missed congratulating
Technorati on their cool new look & features. I managed to
show their new consolidated tag search
to an executive yesterday -- searching for tags popped up not only
posts, but photos from buzznet and flickr. It was a great way to
point out the utility of interoperability.
Kevin made a good point about cognitive load. The cost of
applying a tag needs to be near-zero. The iPhoto keywords feature
is a great anti-example.
The ecosystem is jumping all over tags. LiveJournal added support
for tags last week. The Mac "ecto" tool now has tag support as
well. Oh yes -- upcoming.org does hCalendar; evdb does hCalendar
and hCard. Note to self: Check all these out soon.
I do think people are waving their hands a bit around authorization and
authentication, especially when Tanenbaum talks about an ecosystem of
services. Do I just give all these services all of my usernames
and passwords? How do I know I can trust some of these little
fly-by-night web services with my private information? Also,
Marty, please, please don't curse this by invoking AI.
In the future, I'll Google "concerts in the next week" and get not just
websites but a consolidated, sortable list of events from all sources.
Best comment of the session (rough quote) from John Seely Brown:
"You're doing pragmatics as well as semantics and that's why you'll
win."
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Hey, if someone hijacks your precious del.icio.us account or whatever, what's the real harm?
We're forced to trust banks and stuff, because they're "not fly by night shops" and because we really have no choice, and they get 0wned to the tune of <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/17/news/master_card/">40M+ credit cards</a>.
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