Tag Archives: tagging

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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Sticky Tags for Twitter?

August 21, 2007 – 11:31 pm

I should elaborate on what I mean by tags in Twitter, since I got a few head-scratching responses. No, fitting tags into the 140 characters for a message won’t work. And, no, tagging every tweet as you go is a horrible approach – no one will do it. What I’ve thought might work, though, [...]

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