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Technorati Does Tags

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you're-it dept.

Ian@FalsePositives.com writes "Technorati (a search engine for blogs) has a new 'tag' service. If your blog tool of choice uses Categories, has a RSS/Atom feed, and pings technorati, then you're done. If not, you can add tags via a new tag markup. The twist is that Technorati is working with Del.icio.us (a social/sharing bookmark manager website) and Flickr (a social/sharing photo web site) to read their tagged content! So Flickr pictures, Del.Ico.us bookmarks, and blog posts all on one page! Here's an example result for the tag Toronto. There is some documentation as well. One current limitation is that there is no way to do tag intersection as with del.icio.us (i.e. http://del.icio.us/tag/toronto+food ) like http://www.technorati.com/tag/toronto+Food. Tagging (also know as Folksonomies) was the topic recently on Slashdot: Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr."

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  1. Take this article with a pinch of salt. by Slash+Watch · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Technorati is a subsidiary of OSDN. They have in the past paid Michael Sims small sums of money to post entries on certain subjects. Though there's no evidence that that occurred for this article, know this.

    1. Re:Take this article with a pinch of salt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      And given Technorati's founder's tendency toward self-promotion, I'd take most of the positive replies to this article with several pinches of salt. He probably wrote them.

  2. Your post was interesting until... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You said "blogosphere". This is much like having someone say "cyberspace" nowadays. Your credibility went right out the window with that one word.

    PS: "blogosphere" is not on OS X's built in dictionary, but "cyberspace" is. This may be the conclusive evidence many were searching for that Apple is run by douchebags.

  3. (plus uone Informative) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    don't ffel that