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Tagging is huge and here to stay

Alex Barnett has an excellent post about tags and the Long Tail.

. . .What it says to me at least is that these Long Tails of individual minds are strongly and potentially algorithmically correlated to the Long Tails of taggers’ collective efforts.
. . . In other words, tagware =  natural Recommendation Networks

It also reminded me to take another look at an old post by James Corbett about tagging and the semantic web.

Note the quote from Jon Udell,

The social tagging services just get out of the way and try to let those conversations happen.

Let’s face it , tagging has become a revolution in it’s own right as to how people store, search, share and recive information

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Well RESTed

Alex Barnett with a profusion of REST resources .

I’ve been working of some REST APIs lately and have to keep double-checking to make sure I’m not missing something. It’s that easy to implement.

I love xml-rpc, but this has it’s place as well.

REST is a great name for it, much better than “Shampoo”, which is what I would have called it, because it’s like. . . uh . . liquid SOAP .

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