Metadata becomes cool
10 Mar 2005
It is interesting to see what it takes for some technology to take off. It seems like it metadata for things such as photos and blogging has gotten a big boost from Flickr. But it’s not metadata… it’s called tagging. That makes it a lot easier for non-tech people to understand.
But it’s pretty funny reading what people say about it.
Blogs are about to evolve, however, thanks to an idea called tagging. Tagging is a software tweak that’s already used on photo-sharing site Flickr.com, for example. Here’s how it works: As the site’s users post their photos for everyone on Flickr.com to see, they tag a photo taken in, say, Iraq, with a tagline, “Iraq.”
It seems so basic. The idea has been around forever. But with Flickr doing it actually becomes useful for a lot of people. And that’s what it takes to make it mainstream. I hope more people learn about this cool new idea of tagging.
