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Taglines. A timeline of Flickr tags. I can’t describe this one. Just see it.

Yahoo buys del.icio.us.

Trend sweet trend shows recent trends in del.icio.us bookmarks.

Cluster your del.icio.us bookmarks.

Now, Google search history lets you tag and bookmark.

I have an automated (and lazy) way of finding interesting sites. This is what I do every day. I get the del.icio.us tags of every URL I blog about. (It’s available at http://del.icio.us/rss/url/ followed by the MD5 hex version of the URL). I pick the most popular tags (at least 50 links must have this tag), and use them as my “preferred tags” I scan the most popular sites on del.icio.us, and get each site’s tags If a site has my preferred tags, I give it points (the number of points is equal to the number of times I’ve blogged that tag) I pick the top 5 sites based on my points, and read them. There are two problems I have now. Firstly, I will find sites similar to those I have blogged about – not discover anything new. That’s fine to start with – I can search for those manually. The bigger problem is, this is restricted to del.icio.us. There are two ways I can extend this (lazily). ...

A list of 10 trends to keep an eye on over the next 10 years. Includes the Long tail, Ajax, PDAs, Tagging and RSS.

Tagging is in full swing. del.icio.us, Furl, My Web 2.0, Spurl etc. tags URLs Yummy tags PDFs Rojo tags RSS feeds Tagcloud, 24 eyes, Feedmarker, etc. tag RSS posts Technorati tags blog posts Tagsurf tags discussions Job Bazaar tags job postings Gmail tags e-mails (but you can’t share tags) Connotea and CiteULike tag academic references Swik tags open-source projects Snippets tags source code 43 things tags things you want to do 43 places tags places you want to visit Diggs tags stories Library Thing tags books Reader 2 tags books Upcoming tags events Dinnerbuzz tags restaurants Flickr tags photos Tagzania tags locations Freesound tags sounds Podcast tags podcasts Upto 11 tags P2P music Music mobs and Genie Lab tag music You tube tags videos In fact, supr.c.ilio.us tags tagging sites! ...

A Flickr related tag browser.