Last night, we hosted Tag Tuesday at the AOL offices in Mountain View. It was a good get-together; Edwin Aoki talked about tag spam, and Kevin Burton talked about TailRank.
Naturally, my laptop battery ran out, and when I got home, I discovered
that my DSL had crapped out so I couldn't blog. Oh, the
horror. So, just some quick drive-by notes.
Do meta-tags (tags applied to tags or tag-url tuple instances) make any
sense? It's tags all the way down... Kevin Marks commented
that co-occurrences of tags are good enough for most purposes.
Need to think about that one.
Kevin's TailRank beta is a "meme
finder" as opposed to an aggregator. It uses OPML subscription
lists to help filter information based on what you and your friends are
interested in -- and he's working on getting some kind of automatic
sync-up going. Seems like this would benefit from Ray Ozzie's Really Simple Sharing
initiative. There's a problem here, though -- the whole point of
this is that you don't have to explicitly subscribe to feeds, but if
nobody explicitly subscribes to feeds, where will the interest data
come from?
Now, I really like the concept of mobile.tailrank.com.
I really don't want to manage a set of subscriptions for my mobile
device and it really can't handle the set of subscriptioins I have on
my desktop. But something that automatically filters interesting
news, with input from my desktop subscriptions, seems like a natural
win for a mobile service.
Oh, and we had a smooth and uneventful Journals update this morning. Fortunately for Joseph the Intern.
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Oooo. I love the new photo of the baby. And I guess that's you with the baby, eh? When there's a baby in the photo, you know, all eyes go to the baby.
~~ jennifer
Intern? I know I've screwed up a few things, but I didn't realize I've been demoted that far.
Oh, wait, you're talking about someone else. Whew -- Joe
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I think meta-tags are still in a nascent phase and assumes that people are really familiar with tags. Unfortunately, I think the adoption rate of tags are probably as high as RSS. In general I think naming things is a difficult large overhead for humans.
I agree with your TailRank thoughts. What's the point of RSS if now I have to do an explicit search. The greatest thing about RSS is content is pushed to me. Unfortunately it still needs to be easier to use...too many formats and why am I shown an xml formatted page? *sigh*
Now mobile tailrank is interesting, if I understand you correctly it's a filter on top of your Desktop RSS feeds pushed to your phone? If that's the case it would be pretty interesting cause the screen space is so much less and my connection is so slow (it feels like I'm on dialup), but it's great for when I'm just waiting around at the airport or needing to check for that real important email...I'll endure the pain to find the latest on Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie ;)
Actually, I think that naming things that matter is a pretty basic human instinct. Heck, my one year old tags several hundred things per day with one-word names. True, most of them are "duck" and "choo-choo" but that's what matters to him, right?
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