tagclouds and beyond
I've started to work with Web 2.0 technologies, primarily to learn more about them. I've recently posted about a popular concept called tagclouds.
A few people have inquired about tagclouds on the right hand sidebar of Kintya.com. Tagclouds are a simple, but creative and powerful way to harness the power of Web 2.0. Tagclouds have been popularized by del.icio.us , connectedy and flickr. A tagcloud is an automated way of generating folksonomy views. Folksonomy, according to wikipedia, is a collaborative way of categorizing information on the web, on the basis of freely chosen keywords (tags) by users.
There are several ways to create tagclouds. Pete Freitag explains creation of tagclouds using ColdFusion. However, I prefer doing it by using a handy service offered by TagCloud.com.
Technically a tagcloud is a collection of tags (which are clickable hyperlinks). Clicking on a particular link will take the user to a new page with the article abstracts to the RSS feeds associated with that tag. It will also display the other tags associated with that feed. Read More...
