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Like mood rings and fanny packs, like mullets and the Macarena, the weighted tag clouds meme popularized by Flickr and Technorati is about to cross a permanent cultural shame threshold. Brilliant as the idea remains, faddishness is choking its air supply.

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CONFOTO is a repository for conference photos and associated metadata. This service provides a tailored photo browser and a generic RDF browser for people, events, and other related resources. CONFOTO is Semantic Web application, it allows you to add rich

This post announces release candidate 1 of xFolk, an xhtml microformat for social bookmarking as popularized by del.icio.us and a growing host of other services. Microformats are conventions for conveying information on the web in a way that is easily mac

“Social software is stuff that gets spammed.” Not a perfect definition, but servicable in its way.

In a little more than a week since it launched, Yahoo's MyWeb 2.0 social search engine has already become a haven for tag spam. A closer examination of the most popular tags reveals that crapware, nhw: bad crapware, nhw: bad and nhw: dangerous are among t

Planet Web 2.0 aggregates the weblogs of the Web 2.0 community. Web 2.0 is about sharing rich data through open, loosely coupled services, enabling new and exciting applications and modes of collaboration.

Planet XMLhack aggregates the weblogs of XML hackers and commentators. It is made using RDF technology, with the Redland toolkit

We've just begun rolling out support for tagging items for others. To do so, use "for:username" where username is the name of the user you want to send the item to.

extisp.icio.us text gives you a random textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the number of times that they've used each of them, and leaves you to draw your own insights from the overlapping entrails.

Cocoalicious is open source, available under the terms of the BSD License. If happen to have an iPod (and who doesn't these days?) and you'd like to support Cocoalicious development, you might consider purchasing an $8 license for PodWorks, my iPod song t

delicious.js - JavaScript interface to the del.icio.us API

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I've written an Internet Explorer extension to allow you to use Internet Explorer's rright-click/context menu to search for a page, link or text in Technorati.

Scrumptious is a Firefox extension for use with del.icio.us, a social bookmark manager. It makes it easy and convenient to add bookmarks with accurate metadata tags to del.icio.us from Firefox. After installation, you can open Scrumptious by choosing View

Search for your favorite events, Organize your events using unlimited calendars, Use EVDB's SmartCalendars to find events relevant to you, Subscribe to events and venues with RSS and iCalendar, Publish calendars to your website, Add new events and venues

... by del.icio.us Categorizer - reconstructs a hierarchic ordering for your del.icio.us links using set theory.

I attended the geo microformat BOF session downstairs. As there are so many ways for people to refer to a location in what they publish on the web, it's about time for a structured way of tagging locations.

This is a google map showing the location of KnowNet, Bangor