DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/03/15/delicious-tag-descriptions/

  • publicenergy · 2 years ago
    I do try and keep my del.icio.us posts tidy by giving them descriptions and relevent tags, but this just seems like an unnecessary extra.
  • Anita · 2 years ago
    "Why bother" is what I was thinking too. As long as it's not required or even visible for most users, I don't think it will matter much though.

    Del.icio.us needs to figure out how to become more accessible to the average user, adding tag descriptions to the already obscure idea of tagging (to Joe and Janet Internet User at least) certainly isn't going to help them regain the position they lost to companies like Digg and StumbleUpon.
  • Jake Loockley · 2 years ago
    Is this new? Descriptions have been part of delicious since day 1. I annotate most my bookmarks soley for searching purposes - so I can find stuff that has common tags. After all, just about everything I read about carries the same tags - socialnetwork, web2.0, AJAX, mashup -- the redundancies make the tagging useless if you can't find something when you go looking for it.
  • GoRgOuS BrOwN SuGa · 2 years ago
    i rock ur world!!!!
  • David · 1 year ago
    This feature will rule for me (and, presumably, others with the same problem): I have a tendency to tag things and then, later, be entirely unable to figure out what the tag was supposed to mean. Often I'll have conceived some sort of nifty shorthand rule, e.g. "tagging" = "graffiti artistry in the context of hip-hop culture" but "tag" = "kids' game, often played in elementary school" and "tags" = "metadata identifying general associations among items (cf. del.icio.us)." Then, later, I'll get mixed up and assign something from one category to another one, and then Katy bar the door!
    I realize I'm the source of my own confusion, here, but that never seems to stop me :P. Yay, delicious!