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Category: Emerging Technology

  • The Animated Man

    • ProgtooTattoos + Nanotech = Animated Tattoos?
    • Tattoos + Nanotech + Web 2.0 = Animated Programmable Tattoos?
    • Tattoos + Nanotech + Web 2.0 + Stamen = Really Cool Programmable Animated Tattoos?

    I can’t wait to see my Flickr tag cloud rendered on Cherie! I must get in touch with the nano guys in Liverpool…in the meantime, more about programmable tattos and digital displays for your body here.

  • Tag-tical Awareness

    Back in January 2005, as Flickr and del.icio.us drove the adoption of tags, Brian Dear speculated (as did I) on the emergence of federated tagging; a Google for your tags – Taggle.

    TagticalNow, eighteen months later tags are everywhere – Technorati, Flickr, del.icio.us, 43 Things, Gmail, Vox, YouTube, Ning, Last.FM and our very own Simpatico, Klippr and Comcentrix. Tags have become an essential piece of Web 2.0 infrastructure, providing the defacto mechanism for organising and navigating information.

    Yet, no metaservices have arisen to enable users to pivot through their increasingly dense cloud of tagged messages, photos, songs, post and videos. Most of the services listed above make a user’s tags available through API access, but no one has joined up the dots – the tagsonomy/folksonomy/tagosphere remains fragmented.

    What I’d like to see…

    • Use of tag microformats in sites that support tagging – would that be rel-tag, xFolk or hReview?
    • A service that aggregated my tags and everyone’s tags – from known tag-based apps and items with microformatted content
    • A great Stamen-powered visualisation+UI, that lets me glance, pivot, find, search and scan; through people, time, places, spaces and things.

    C’mon – let’s taggle this problem!

  • Mo’ Beta Blues

    I think I’ve gone a beta too far, my VAIO is currently host to…

    It’s all an accident waiting to happen – my most frequently used desktop applications (bar iTunes) are dragging me towards a digital abyss…I’m just installing the beta for Desktop Search…just need to add Vista and my laptop is toast.