Taggly, no more a del.icio.us clone
Categories: Information Architecture
Tags: folksonomies, folksonomy, tagging, tagglyweb2.0, tags
Disclosure: I’m actively collaborating (no money involved) in the evolution of Taggly helping Raffaele to introduce new ideas and to implement them.
I’ve talked about Taggly some days ago. Yes, It started as another del.icio.us clone but.. But new features have been introduced basically every day. A quick list:
- Ajax tag suggestion both during bookmark addition and into the search form
- Mixed tag + keywords search
- Multiword tags and keywords are allowed
- Firefox plugin
- Wysiwyg editor to quickly (drag and drop) include both texts and photos from the page you are saving
- Tagging history
- Tagging decay and emergent tags visualization for the tagclouds in home page
I have a lot of ideas and this is only the beginning.. Well, let me get acquainted with Taggly and more advanced enhancements will be introduced.
The bottom line of this experience is that nowadays quite everyone with good programming skills can write a del.icio.us clone. While people get used to social tools, I expect that tagging will be embedded in more richer and complex collaboration platforms like IBM is already doing.
The final goal is letting people (customers, employees, interest groups, etc..) get in contact and share resources. The solution to these problems is probably multifaceted and tagging is only one among the paths to reach this fundamental goal.
That’s what I’m working on.
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