Tagnautica is one more neat way to explore the Flickr Tag Space. Start with a tag and dive into tag space of related tags. The creator of Tagnautica, Mario Klingemann, developed also another experimental tool to use with Flickr: Flickeur. Flickeur randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. (via Google Blogoscoped)

Want more tools for Flickr? Explore the links over my Flickr category or go to Flickr Toys where you can have fun for a long time trying all them. New toys to try: Captioner and Poster.

Posted by Bibi on January 15, 2006 03:39 AM in Flickr, Folksonomy, Tools ||

Internet tips for beginners and experts:

- 55 Ways To Have Fun With Google. It's a plan for a book that will be written by Philipp Lenssen with suggestions of the Google Blogoscoped. The post contains some of those ideas.

- Blummy - The bookmarklet management bookmarklet. (via Micro Persuasion)

- How To: Getting Started with RSS at PaulStamatiou.com. (via Lifehacker)

- Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground - PC Magazine rates sharing and tagging services. (via Lifehacker)

- Special: Geek to Live from Lifehacker: Ten Must-Have Bookmarklets.

Make your own iPod: links of paper craft to make an iPod. I should have posted this on a link about art or cool things, but it's funnier here.

- Paper Mac's Origami "Make your own Mac" The Apple Collection. Many models of Macs: mini, Shuffle, Mac mini, eMac, iMacs, Macintosh Classic II, iBook, Cube, G5 and others, in many colours to fold and have fun.

- My iPod: a lovely white PDF iPod model to download and fold here and a bit bigger model (104%) here.

- Shin Tanaka offers a Shuffle model. If you don't have iPod shuffle, don't worry! You can build up this, and feel you have an iPod shuffle. Hum... that's for me!

Neat internet tips for bloggers: wise words by Steve Rubel, from Micro Persuasion.

- Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have

- Ten Blogging Hacks

- Micro Persuasion: Ten RSS Hacks

- Ten Technorati Hacks

The last news from Google, just in case you don't know yet:

- Google Base is a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. (via Official Google Blog)

- Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors. Looks great no? The tools are very good, you can almost know what colours of shirt your visitors was using, but it's not working as programmed for many people. The updates are very slow and I had to wait just 26 hours to get my first results. Let's cross the fingers and hope that the things get back to normal very soon. (via Official Google Blog)

Plus:

- Greatest Internet Moments:a visual travel through Internet history. Pick an image and discover the story behind it.

- Sudoku: play Sudoku with Flickr images. Choose a picture tag and have fun. BTW, the default tag is hamster. (via Lifehacker)

Posted by Bibi on November 17, 2005 01:00 AM in Blogging, Craft, Flickr, Folksonomy, Games, Google, Internet ||

Some links about tags and tagging.... tags.... Did I say that I love tags? Well, I love them.

- Danah Boyd made a neat list of links about it: articles on tagging (help?).

- Google Adds Tagging: Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. (via Waxy)

- One more social bookmarking tool: BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine - BlinkList is Social Bookmarking merged with People Powered Search
and Expert Recommendations... all wrapped in an elegant interface (via Lifehacker)

- Tagyu Tagyu suggests tags for your content. Give it a URL or some text, and it will give you some suggestions for tags. (via Waxy)

- Two articles from Wired News: Tips From Top Taggers and Tag, You're It: Best Bookmarker.

Posted by Bibi on October 18, 2005 03:57 PM in Folksonomy, Internet ||

Lifehacker's guide to weblog comments: twelve useful tips that everyone who reads blogs should read. Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged.

The Wired article Tips for the Crusading Blogger has the same subject as this CNN article: Reporters Without Borders' Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. The handbook is available on Reporters sans frontières as online version or PDF document, with two versions, in English, Chinese, French, Arabic and Persian. One of goals of the manual is help bloggers to spread the word where the media is under censorship and bloggers are often the only real journalists. There are good tips, from "what's a blog" to "Internet-censor world championship". (via /.)

A cognitive analysis of tagging - not directly related with blogging, but I liked the article and it talks about the cognitive process behind categorization too. Almost obligatory for everybody that loves the tag system. And it wasn't a coincidence to find this link via del.icio.us.

Related posts: Blog depression, Articles about blogging, guide for bloggers and more, Blogging news and articles and A Bloggers' Code of Ethics.

Posted by Bibi on October 3, 2005 09:31 PM in Blogging, Folksonomy, Internet, Media ||

SearchFox, as Steve Rubelsays it is a new search engine/tagging tool it's a mix of Google + del.icio.us + MyWeb 2.0 + Firefox. With SearchFox you can add your favourites typing, using the toolbar or searching; save them with description and tags; share them; import your browser favourites; preview the search; subscribe links, groups and people; publish lists of bookmarks on your blog and build a searchable blog index; and access from any computer. Very cool isn't? I just have one problem about start to use it: 4025 items saved on my del.icio.us.

Posted by Bibi on July 31, 2005 09:15 AM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

del.icio.us now has special support for media. Bookmarked items in del.icio.us that end in one of a number of filetypes will now automatically get some system tags added. Support for audio, video, documents, RSS, podcasting and images. To know how it works read the casting the net wider del.icio.us post.

Posted by Bibi on June 14, 2005 03:52 AM in Folksonomy, Internet, Media, Tools ||

Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.

The result is a list like this one below and you can use CSS to customize it. The popular keywords have larger fonts. This is the TagCloud of my blog RSS feeds:

Posted by Bibi on June 6, 2005 08:06 PM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

del.icio.us has new servers and some more new features. Now you can see your tags as a cloud also (like part of my cloud above) and sort your tags by alpha, or frequency or bundle - you can edit the bundles too. And there is a stuff called "daily blog posting". Can anybody explain to me how that works? Anyway, for another vision of you del.icio.us clouds try del.icio.us tag clouds.

Update: a very nice guy called Tim (?) posted on my comments a link to a post on how to use the daily posting, called Del.icio.us daily blog posting. Thanks! (Now I know how it works and jut will ask for help about the "bundle.)

Posted by Bibi on June 6, 2005 06:44 PM in Folksonomy, Internet ||

Grafolicious: A webmaster tool to see the evolution of a del.icio.us bookmark. It is an interesting tool that show, as a graph how many users add some link and what was the day with more additions on del.icio.us. Works much better to see with the popular links, with this blog is not so fun. Try some.

Posted by Bibi on May 26, 2005 01:20 PM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

grat.uito.us is a social wishing, a free wish list community, based on tags, as del.icio.us and Flickr. There you can keep a running list of things you would love to have. Choose what you want, add to you list and share with your friends and family (they can sign up your list). Very cool and now I have one more wish list with some things. BTW, there is a bookmarklet to help you to add new stuff to your list, but a pop-up could be better. (via del.icio.us)

Posted by Bibi on April 28, 2005 01:50 AM in Folksonomy, Internet ||

Two very interesting articles about social bookmarking: Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review and Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study - Connotea. They talked about tags and the tools: CiteULike, Connotea, del.icio.us, Flickr, Frassle, Furl, Simpy, Spurl and unalog. (via del.icio.us/popular)

Posted by Bibi on April 18, 2005 08:14 PM in Flickr, Folksonomy, Social Software, Tools ||

Did I say that everyday there is something new and cool about Flickr? Well, if I did, then I was right. Now is Flickr Related Tag Browser. Flickr Related Tag Browser lets you surf Flickr's 'tag space'. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of 'related' tags, based on clustered usage analysis.

(via del.icio.us)

Posted by Bibi on March 29, 2005 11:46 PM in Flickr, Folksonomy, Tools ||

trendalicious shows the popularity of the last links posted on del.icio.us

trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past fifty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts.

Posted by Bibi on March 28, 2005 11:00 PM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

de.lirio.us: Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Blogging & Notes. Mmmmm, Notes. Did you hear it? Notes and that's the difference between this one and del.icio.us. With de.lirio.us you can include a long detailed note for each post. If you have more doubts about ir try here. Anyway, I will not leave del.icio.us. (via O'Reilly Weblogs)

Posted by Bibi on March 25, 2005 08:48 AM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

Jon Udell talks about language evolution in del.icio.us in a very nice video (screencast). This is one more change to you understand del.icio.us. (via Micro Persuasion)

Posted by Bibi on March 15, 2005 05:20 AM in Folksonomy, Language, Social Software ||

The image above is the result of a search for the word cats on Flickr Postcard Browser, a new the new tool that searches on images on Flickr by the tags that you choose. Flickr Postcard Browser lets you browse Flickr's huge image database, by searching for tags (keywords). Flickr Postcard Browser use the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface. (via Going My Way)

Posted by Bibi on March 14, 2005 05:19 PM in Flickr, Folksonomy, Tools ||

Amazing del.icio.us - there is always something new about it. Now it is a search tool: del.icio.us tag search. With this search tool you can search multiple tags, for example, you can search fun and video and the result will be just links that have both tags. The maximum of 7 tags and you can also limit to one username. Great! I love it.

Posted by Bibi on March 7, 2005 02:36 AM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

One more social bookmarking, or, another de.icio.us: Wists: visual bookmarks. The idea of saving an image to represent a site is fine, but sometimes it doesn't work well.

By the way, I have a page there with the nick bianca, but there are few links yet. Anyway I don't want to leave del.icio.us ever. (via Kottke)

Posted by Bibi on March 3, 2005 01:05 PM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||

Is that colour remind you anything? Yes? So go to the colr.org and type it. Colr is an interesting site that mixes del.icio.us, Flickr and something more just for fun (till now).

colr.org has two purposes: 1) It's a tool to let people fiddle around with colors and words. 2) It's a jungle gym (of sorts) for software ideas.

Posted by Bibi on February 18, 2005 11:31 AM in Curious things, Design, Folksonomy ||

Yes, another site/tool based on del.icio.us - fac.etio.us: faceted navigation of del.icio.us feeds. More about it? Read the great Many-to-Many article about it.

Posted by Bibi on February 18, 2005 09:08 AM in Folksonomy, Internet, Tools ||