MyTags
It is unbelievable. Every single website, mainstream or newcomers, are or will be offering a tagging (labeling, naming, keyword-ing) facility! This means every time I am somewhere on the web I can tag something on someone’s website with some words, saying something I think about a specific item.
This creates something called (tagged;)) folksonomies for the respective websites, dynamic categories, trends in reader’s habits or preferences etc. But how about me? What do I get?
I think all those Web 2.0 (or Web 1.0 going 2.0) companies should think about me and give me something in return of my contribution(s). I think if I am to register some service (like amazon, flickr, whatever) and tag something (which does not necessarily belong to me), I should be able to get a list of my tags and perhaps links to get XMLs or some kind of list containing all the site’s content matching my tags. It seems to me the least decent thing to do. If not, what do I get by tagging something?
This could go as far as getting a list with my search words from my search engines (where I am a registered user, of course). Or links to all the photos matching each of my flickr tags. Or bookmarks I tagged at del.icio.us or furl.net (I know they are already doing it). Etc.
And this could be later integrated into my blog or some kind of private space where I could follow all my tagged content. In a way, if I tag something, I relate to it. It is a 2 way relation. For now, I see mostly the first part: we, the websites, get tags. You, the user, get other’s tags. Not only yours.
PS I guess there are websites already offering this service. I apologize if one cited by me already has it. I am only trying to get real examples.
