Wordle. The Tagging Toolbox. See also: World’s First Review of Streamy - The AJAX-based Digg Rival Tags - for some, one of the best ideas on the web, for others, merely a visual distraction. Yes, we're talking about those loosely defined categories which are usually organized into cute little clouds.
Looking for tag-related resources can be tough, so we've dug up 30 tools and resources that every seasoned tagger should check out. Tools Tag2find - organize the content on your hard disk through tags; ideal for Web 2.0 fanatics.TagMyCloud - a tool that creates a tag cloud from a text you provide.Tagfacts - organize your notes into tags.Tagcrowd - visualize a chunk of text into tags, based on keyword density.Tagcloud maker - create a simple tag cloud for your web site.Taglocity - need more clutter in your Microsoft Outlook? Plugins Miscellaneous Semapedia - tagging meets real world.Mytago - a tool for decoding offline tags with your mobile phone.Snapshirts - Wanna show the world how geeky you are? Quintura Search Engine. Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. Russia-based Quintura Search Engine has received substantial backing from Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg, an early-stage investor in Skype, ABRT Venture Fund and the partners of OpenView Venture Partners of Boston.
This is an interesting deal for several reasons. The first is the Skype connection. Another one is that Quintura is the first Internet Russian company to receive investment from a Western VC. And then, of course, the product itself is very innovative. Quintura is a visual search engine and it claims to apply the natural way that people think about concepts, to search.
The current version of Quintura supports just generic and image search, but it is likely that more will be coming soon. Yakov Sadchikov, co-founder and CEO of Quintura, said in the press release: We think this is very ambitious, given that search is a tough and crowded space. Visualizing Del.icio.us Roundup. I have been coming across many del.icio.us tools to visualize usage during my daily researching hours. So many, that I have decided to start making note of the ones I come across. From the span of about two weeks, I have been collecting as many as I could find. I will list each one along with a description. Enjoy! There’s a couple more that I have in mind, but they don’t seem to be working at the moment. TagCrowd. Del.icio.us tag cloud v1.0 » nickbouton.com.