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Nathan · 07-01-2006, 11:45 AM

If you look at netscapes new site they have a thing called popular tags. it looks like a bunch of jumbled words. some are small some are large.

what is that??

JDA · 07-01-2006, 12:00 PM

It's a tag cloud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud

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A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.
The first widely known tag cloud appeared on Flickr, the photo sharing site. That implementation was based on Jim Flanagan's Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularised by Technorati, among others.

Nathan · 07-01-2006, 12:05 PM

Err the wikipedia explaination doesn't help

maybe because its 1am or maybe because it's too mumbo jumboy but what is it in simple language?

Flickr? never heard of it. Is that a typo for flicker?

a tag cloud is a list of words tagged with more weighted tags in larger letters. riiiiiiiiiight. tagged by whom? tagged from where? taged in what way?

capitalistpig · 07-01-2006, 12:13 PM

Tags really are really just categories. I guess it's a new web 2.0 thing.

JDA · 07-01-2006, 12:15 PM

Flickr is a photo sharing site:

www.flickr.com

They were bought by Yahoo not too long ago.

Users tag pictures there. So a picture of the sun would be tagged "sun". Then later when someone else searched for sun, or clicked on the word sun in a tag cloud that picture would come up.

A blog tag cloud would probably have to do with categories. So if you had a "category x" it would appear in the cloud as "category x" and when you clicked it all the posts from that category would come up. If you had 100 posts in "category x" and hardly any posts in other categories then "category x" would be in really big font compared to everything else.

Not sure if I'm explaining this well, but hopefully that helps.

JDA · 07-01-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by capitalistpig

Tags really are really just categories. I guess it's a new web 2.0 thing.

There you go, that's a better explanation than my long winded one.

Nathan · 07-01-2006, 12:18 PM

Categories displayed in a non linear format then?

Interesting. Would you say it was a more user friendly approach?

Flickr is a photo sharing place? Cool. Will check them out too.

JDA · 07-01-2006, 12:26 PM

Yeah, getting off topic now, but Flickr is pretty awesome. I really love it.

Nathan · 07-01-2006, 12:28 PM

I've never taken any notice of photo sharing sites before

JDA · 07-01-2006, 12:29 PM

It's my favorite, although a lot of my relatives use Snapfish, www.snapfish.com.

a.titus1 · 07-02-2006, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Nathan

Categories displayed in a non linear format then?

Interesting. Would you say it was a more user friendly approach?

Just a different way of ranking the density of subjects. Bigger font = more stuff in that category. Bigger fonts tend to jump out more to people than an ordered list I guess.

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Nathan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 543	what are tags? If you look at netscapes new site they have a thing called popular tags. it looks like a bunch of jumbled words. some are small some are large. what is that??

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JDA Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 722	Flickr is a photo sharing site: www.flickr.com They were bought by Yahoo not too long ago. Users tag pictures there. So a picture of the sun would be tagged "sun". Then later when someone else searched for sun, or clicked on the word sun in a tag cloud that picture would come up. A blog tag cloud would probably have to do with categories. So if you had a "category x" it would appear in the cloud as "category x" and when you clicked it all the posts from that category would come up. If you had 100 posts in "category x" and hardly any posts in other categories then "category x" would be in really big font compared to everything else. Not sure if I'm explaining this well, but hopefully that helps. __________________

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JDA Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 722	Yeah, getting off topic now, but Flickr is pretty awesome. I really love it. __________________

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JDA Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 722	It's my favorite, although a lot of my relatives use Snapfish, www.snapfish.com. __________________

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07-01-2006, 12:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
Nathan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 543	Err the wikipedia explaination doesn't help maybe because its 1am or maybe because it's too mumbo jumboy but what is it in simple language? Flickr? never heard of it. Is that a typo for flicker? a tag cloud is a list of words tagged with more weighted tags in larger letters. riiiiiiiiiight. tagged by whom? tagged from where? taged in what way?

07-01-2006, 12:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
capitalistpig Nothing To Read Here Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: USA Posts: 153	Tags really are really just categories. I guess it's a new web 2.0 thing.

07-01-2006, 12:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
Nathan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 543	Categories displayed in a non linear format then? Interesting. Would you say it was a more user friendly approach? Flickr is a photo sharing place? Cool. Will check them out too.

07-01-2006, 12:28 PM	#9 (permalink)
Nathan Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 543	I've never taken any notice of photo sharing sites before