Tag
Related: category - class - taxonomy - name
A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.
The first widely known tag cloud appeared on Flickr, the photo sharing site. That implementation was based on Jim Flanagan's Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularised by Technorati, among others. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag cloud [Sept 2006]
See this tag cloud as an example of the vocabulary of the non-mainstream. [Sept 2006]
Tagging (taxonomy)
In the practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords known as folksonomy, tags are descriptors that individuals assign to objects. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagging [May 2005]
Tagging (grafitti)
The simplest form of graffiti is a simple signature known as a tag, and is consequently referred to as tagging. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagging [May 2005]
Amazon tags
Tags provide an easy way for you to "remember" and classify any item on the Amazon site for later recall. For example, you might be shopping for holiday gifts and tag items with the names of the people on your shopping list. At any time, you can review the items you've tagged and make final gift decisions. You might also want to tag items you've purchased in the past. This allows you to organize your collection in any way you wish. You can also use tags to help you remember items you're considering for purchase, e.g. if you are planning to buy a digital camera, you might tag several makes and models so that you can look at them side by side, organized the way you wish. Don't like the way Amazon has organized its science fiction or cookbooks? Tag the items you care about with the categories that matter to you. Because people's tags are (by default) visible to others, a great side effect of tagging is that you can navigate among items through other people's tags. What items have people tagged "gift" or "Tuscany" or "robot?" --http://www.amazon.com/gp/tagging/what-is-this.html [Nov 2005]
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