Curiouser and Curiouser! on teampage http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic teampage Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb 2 million red tags go by Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:55:00 +0100 <p>Floating in the summer sky...</p> <p>I've <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/2005/06/12.html#a1857">said it before</a> and I'll say it again now: I don't understand the value of <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/">Technorati Tags</a>.</p> <p>For all the hype they've gotten I still haven't seen the use case that makes them valuable. What is that they are doing for people? They're tracking 2 million tags by their own count and millions of posts. If they're not spammed up the wazoo how on earth are you supposed to mine relevance or interest here? What, in short, is the point?</p> <p>What <a href="http://paolo.evectors.it/">Paolo</a>, <a href="http://simone.blogs.it/">Simone</a>, and I did and what <a href="http://www.tractionsoftware.com/">the boys at Traction</a> have done is very similar, allowing individuals to tag content to reflect what they think is interesting or pertinet about it. However there is a key difference: <strong>we were doing it in a controlled community</strong> not the free-for-all that is the blogosphere.</p> <p>In a controlled community you have scaling problems which are orders-of-magnitude less awful and can begin to use and develop the trust relationships which exist. Typically you can subdivide to create workspaces which are meaningful for a cohesive group of people which allows you to build useful tools to go alongside the content.</p> <p>Have a thousand flowers bloomed and I didn't notice? If not, is it ever likely?</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002857.html