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A couple of years ago, some colleagues and I were working on a mechanism for tagging people in the context of a general purpose social network...that work will be launching soon as Orange's Metamaki service.
However, you can read a few of our thoughts at
http://imran.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/tagging_p... and http://www.librarytechtonics.info/archives/2006...>
I think you left one of the major things unanswered after such a long informative and thoughtful post:
does this kind of feature address a real need? (For me, it does.)
How? Let us know that.
Pffiiiuuu, i will need my week-end in order to read this very interesting article. Thanks Stef. I wish I could see you soon.
Interesting.I haven't come to any conclusions except that one of the things I like about twitter is it's randomness. I often don't understand people's posts but that doesn't mean I don't want to read them.If we were catagorised we might miss out.
Apologies for any spelling errors
This post is to long! ;-) But for me, working now in a "social software company", very interesting.
You can use xing-tags vor filtering contacts for invitations, thats usefull. But I agree with you, xing could use tags in a more usefull way and more consistent (its only posible to tag contacts not "remembered person").
I often wonder if it would be possible to auto "cluster" groups. Some people in networks are often very close connected, for example in xing I have connections to all my study mates and each of them has also connections to each of them. So some people have a very close networks, I'd like to see a software that group this close networks (make Groupings, in the article words).
Interesting post Stephanie.
One of the things that frustrated me when I first started using twitter was how random some of the responses were when someone replied to a comment outside my immediate group. I thought that adding groups would solve that but I was getting confused as to why some people were dead-set against it.
It actually makes sense in the context of your post though, if I was thinking that it was a group of friends/contacts, and they were thinking it was groups interested in knitting or cats.
Hi Stephanie, you posted a great text and I'd like to put it on Traduwiki to get it translated into several languages. Traduwiki(.org) is a new place where people can become translators, and contribute to spread interesting texts on the Web. Each text is hashed into small chunks, users can choose the text portion they want to translate.
Unfortunately, you didn't mention if your blog posts are under an open source license or a Creative Commons license. Could you please answer to this request?
Oh heck, the license must have been hosed during one of my redisigns. All my stuff is CC by-nc-sa. Just go ahead -- I love the idea of traduwiki.
Done! Thanks Stephanie for allowing the republishing. Your post (this post) is on Traduwiki.org. Feel free to add yours if you want to share it in various languages, in French for example (but I guess that "tu ne connais aucun problème pour les traduire" :)
this is not blog spam, but you can make a kind of make shift group for twitter, please check my how to on my blog, http://twittergroups.wordpress.com</p>
Why do you feel the need to specify that your comment is not spam? My first thought upon reading such a "disclaimer" is that you're probably leaving it on every post about Twitter and groups, or something like that.
Anyway, after a peek to your blog, it seems you're talking about "flickr-groups", which are in my opinion really not a very interesting "feature" for a service like Twitter.
Manual trackback: channels for Twitter by Chris Messina http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-fo...>