Group items tagged

You can use tagthe.net to auto-tag your messages

Suggestion of frequently used tags

searching and organizing tagged mail

external search engines

Semantic tags will be a core building block of the next-generation web

leveraging the popular Wikipedia as a vast source of a universal controlled vocabulary

Wikipedia can serve as a great controlled vocabulary for tags

Every concept is unique, has a unique URI,

well-defined.

DBpedia did a very good job of extracting the structure or semi-structure

and expressing it in RDF

or a machine readable way.

Faviki helps users remove the ambiguity otherwise surrounding free text tags’ meaning.

You can use some concrete concepts as tags

yourself as the author as a tag

specific organizations or companies or people or specific ideas as tags

DBpedia’s linking between the various language versions of Wikipedia

users tag in 14 different languages

English as the universal reference

Common Tag

last month, Faviki added the ability for users to use their own keywords or tags in a freeform way

and map them to semantic tags

connecting tagging with searching to accomplish this.

the new release lets users create new tags outside of Wikipedia, using Google returns from the whole world of web pages

users collaborate on which URLs are the best candidates for new concepts.

URL tags are not so clear as dbpedia

a bit more messy

a bit more dynamic,

but the idea was to make it semi-automatic. People make them and disambiguate them while adding tags

some kind of compromise.

Next steps for Faviki are around connecting with other services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook, to make it easier for users to try it out.

Some longer-term plans would be to publish data from Faviki in linked data, to connect to the rest of inked data,

making that data queryable to developers via SPARQL.

by opening the data, because that’s the idea of the semantic web, to make the data open and connect easily to various sources

as much a platform as an application

mappings between free tags’ association and some uniquely identified concepts will be very important

that kind of data will be interesting to developers.

“These modules seek to penetrate, but in a passing way. A second of your attention is all they ask. Nothing is firing that rends or cuts. It’s a massage, really, if you just go with it. And why not? Some of the most talented people on the planet have devoted their lives to creating this psychic sauna, just for you.” Ersatz environments and colourful advertisements have been with us since the fifties, de Zengotita adds, but the multimedia blitz we experience now represents a whole new level of persuasion. “Saying that it’s just more of what we had before is like saying a hurricane is just more breeze.”

Today’s mass dream, split from the organic foundation of the world and cobbled together from shards of television shows, newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, films, ad jingles, ringtones – the whole mad fantasy of what’s hip, what’s not, who’s in, who’s out and the international villain du jour – is the raw stuff of the ‘Collective Unconscious 2.0’.

Mainstream media culture currently has all the signs of full-blown psychosis. This is analogous to Jung’s shadow. Confronting the shadow is unpleasant on a personal level, but healing cannot be effected without being confronted with the truth – and as folk wisdom has it, the truth hurts. What is positive about this process is that we’re being forced to confront the very worst in the imaginal output of our great, untethered, free market economy.

We are, ultimately, the stories we tell each other of our past, present and future. We become what we seek. It’s up to us to rule the imagination or leave it in the hands of a select few to shape the future of the mass dream. As Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

excessively complex

multi-level security, governance, and policy controls

more difficult than with other platforms which were designed to function in highly diverse environments

Users should be able to create sites

customize them over time to meet the local requirements

evolve and improve through shared contributions

complexity and high cost