Matthew's revolutionary new site, TagTagger, is well worth a look. I'm sure it will be nothing but successful ;-)
Meanwhile ... I was thinking a couple of days ago about the implications of tagging, and the logical conclusion to this (and semantic web ideals in general). Forgive me if someone's already come up with this, but here's the idea...
I want to tag everything. When I add an event to my calendar, I want to add arbitrary tags to it (for example business, personal, networking, social, public, private, friends, family). I want to be able to flexibly publish my calendar based on arbitrary sets of tags. Think flickr for calendars (ooh, Russ is gonna hate that! It's like Flickr, but with ...). So I might publish one calendar for business, that displays all my public business events, and also displays that I am unavailable at the times of private business events but doesn't show why (I think some groupware does this already).
I want to tag my addressbook, and publish that in the same way. People I work with should be able to synchronise with my 'public' 'business' contacts. I should be able to send a text to everyone I've tagged as 'social' and 'friend' to invite them to the pub.
I'm sure there's more that could benefit from tagging (maybe email?). And to borrow a bit from Matthew, why not have a centralised database of my tags, that each app can auto-suggest from?
Posted by savs at October 28, 2005 9:03 AM