Tag Archives: flickr

Tags do work (for me, at least)

January 18, 2009 – 1:29 am

For the “too long; didn’t read” crowd: I’ve been using a lot of tags on Delicious over a relatively long time, so they seem very useful to me. Delicious encourages the use of tags through UI convention and tool usage patterns, whereas Flickr presents no particular bias toward collecting tags from users. Since title and description attract more [...]

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Don’t ask me who I am

August 17, 2006 – 1:24 pm

I’m tired of filling out profiles, and I’m tired of building up networks of others’ profiles online. Everyone needs to adopt something like FOAF hCard and XFN (updated per suggestion from Kevin Marks), and be done with it. The networks should be semi-automated, or at least suggested, by detecting who I know from [...]

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