[Tagdb] TagCamp 2005 trip report

[Jeremy Dunck]

Tags: rainonparade tagcamp  ;-)

On 11/7/05, Nitin Borwankar <nitin at borwankar.com> wrote:
>...To be successful an app must give the user benefit with
> minimum work and the group benefit should just fall out of that for
> free.   Del and to some extent Flickr seem to fit into that model.
>
...
> a) a  meme - tag your email on the first line with Tags:  .....  pass it on
>    in future this helps search email on list archives far better than
> using the subject line or even your inbox in future when Tag search is
> available. This kind of tag tags content as the sender intended it to be
> tagged.  GMail tags it as the recipient wants to tag it - these are
> complementary and different - you may tag this email -"reference" or
> "trash" which is your view of the
> same data.  Start tagging email and make it more useful to the receiver.

Not to be a drag, but how is that better than a descriptive subject
line?  The concatenation of words to form an effective keyword?  I
think tags work when there are enough different contributors so that
the (inherent) variety of tag choices starts overlapping anyway.

Also, without the list of already-used tags at hand, tag choices will
be uninformed-- again, making it less useful for a small group.

And to your first take-away, how does benefit me in an obvious and
immediate way?  :)