Comments on: Tag history and gartners hype cycles

By: daveb

daveb — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:32:51 +0000

what is so special about Ma.gnolia.com? simpy is earlier, and diigo is a lot more innovative and powerful

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:06:06 +0000

Recognition of tags by Technorati, and their subsequent indexing by that engine was an important milestone, in my opinion. If I look at my blog post about it, it was in early 2005. I think it greatly contributed to the popularization of tagging amongst the blogging crowd.

The adoption of tags as a microformat http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag is also relevant, imho.

By: Edward O'Connor

Edward O'Connor — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:08:10 +0000

You might add TagCamp (Oct 2005) as a relevant data point.

By: Josua Hönger

Josua Hönger — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:02:03 +0000

In my opinion, del.icio.us and flickr don’t really have to prove something anymore, they ARE the de facto standards for tagging and photo-sharing.

Propably the currently most popular folksonomies are myspace and youtube – both ugly but will this hypes ever end…?!

By: Otis Gospodnetic

Otis Gospodnetic — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:11:28 +0000

Nicely picture, Philipp. :) As you noted, Simpy was born in May of 2004, so I blogged about it and mentioned your post – http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/news/?permalink=Happy-Third-Birthday-Simpy.html