word power and my delicious habbits
EDITED…..
Ok my last post was messy. Sorry bout that. Just happens sometimes, ya get all jazzed up on yer findings that ya sorta space out…
Words. They are powerful. They are so amazing, so useful, I wish I knew more words. I wish I knew all the words that would be tags. Sometimes I surf endlessly thru delicious and wonder what's another /tag/"something" i could try. Could it be a key word like "design" or "software", too vague, how bout "macmini" or "imac" thats getting better, what about "lbs" or gps" how now were divin even deeper into specific interests.
How do I know what something is called without knowing its callsign, its key word? I don't. Its a shot in the dark. Its the one thing that gets me about tagging, how do I know what tags interest me. Sure I can start off rough and dig down like i currently do, but I wish i had a source for trendy words.
Idea: A simple RSS feed that I could tap into that would give me possible keywords that soon to be possible tags to shortly have of course tagged data to them. That would be handy.
Ya know a random key word generator turned tag sniffer would be fun. It'd take common and popular word occurances from the 14 million blogs on the planet, filter out the words that we see every day and track words that occur over time, first in an instance, then in a trickle, then in a stream, possibily indicating popularity, it would then try to sniff out on delicious via simple tries in "/tag/(keyword)" etc. And when it strikes gold, it sends me an email or something saying "four new keywords discovered, they are x, y, z, etc".
The Joy of Digging
To me part of the lure of delicious is not knowing for sure what im looking for. Sometimes its a jist.
Like today I started doing some research on QR code, the japanese 2d barcode for cellphones. Its becoming big over there and a friend of a friend was curious about doing some cell phone marketing here in the states, and then it hit me, hey what about cell phone bar codes, i recall seeing a blurb on the net awhile back, what are they called..
First i hit google and search "cell phone barcodes" then i get some specifics.. and now i'm looking for the signal in the noise, google has a ton of noise, i want the signal, i want what stands out. Found one: QR code.
Hmmm that thing could offer some interesting marketing opportunities. Now lets check, delicious, QR tag,.. lets see.. survey says:
well first off, qr is a tag, score, secondly, it seems to be quaker religious related as well.. neat. Ok so what, what about qr, any references to qr as in qr code, yes.. bingo.
http://del.icio.us/tag/qr?page=5 in particular the list link listing "semacode"
Now i can do two things, i can either check out the various links related to qr code, and no doubt i will, but delicious also offers me another tasty bit of info > like minds surf together.
A few of these links in here are also posted by 128 other people, i could if need be, check out thier boommarking practices to discover other possible like connections with interests of my own. This to me is huge. No one single person can be everywhere really, so dont, let everyone be everywhere where you wanted to be.
Now granted these 128 other people could be drive by taggers, see a link, tag it, no sweat, semi interest. Or they could be just reporters or paid info houd bloggers surfing on the new or casual enthusists, still my trend sniffing nose tells me they also could be on to something else like this edge type emerging trend.
128 people could tap me into another 1200 people if im not careful. Thats why getting to "qr" tag in the first place is so important in regards to it being a known tag by delicious. It gets 75% of the way there. I'm two steps away from serious popcorn. Google is too vast to find me what i want. I don't want what a corporate website deems i should know, i want what people thought was important enough to bookmark. Like minded people, people like me. And even starting vague in delicious itself is too vast. Tapping into something generic as like "design" or "usability" or "cellphones" everyone and their mother has that tag, no, qr, thats specific to a set ideal, concept, and in most cases to a few concepts, so far its quaker relgion, and qr code and like coding systems.
In a quick glance I begin to think that even the link with 128 other like posters is too big. Lets find the small sample, narrow my search even more so.
Ok heres one, its on the http://del.icio.us/tag/qr?page=5 page, 5th posting from the top, "mobile01 and then a slew of japanese characters", also posted by 11 other people. Check out the link, ya more concentrated specific info, good find. What else do i see? other like tags, not just qr, qrcode, mobile, tools. Well we know mobile, and tools, will give us far too many results in delicious, but qrcode one word, that could be good one. How bout investigating those 11 other like people. Sure, thats doable in a quick burst of "open in a new tab window" thx firefox!
Right away we see the list of the 11 other like minded people and quickly i see more possible tags, qr_code, keitai (mobile in japanese), QR-codes, QRcode, and then a few curve balls....what could archangel, conquest, and data_culture have to do with this bookmark posting? That just rings my bell really, he'll get the first look. Now I can either dive into that persons whole tag listing or go after say, "data_culture".. lets try that. http://del.icio.us/slavin/data_culture
Wham Bam, now thats a tasty bit of bookmarking, this guy/gal and me could talk for hours on all these links. Some excellent finds here:
gaming stats
http://www.buddyping.com/features.php big find for those in the sammy project
a bit of surfing and find another tag instance: http://del.icio.us/slavin/area/code
More interesting finds.
this space for tagging
maybe sammy and I are headed to this: http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/101686.html
how many conferences go on by that you miss and wonder, dang why didnt i get to that, well notes are beautiful baby
great notes from Where 2.0
What an excellent find. Tons of links to surf and they "hit" the right spot.
shortcodes! http://www.shotcode.com/data/demomoviemp
Ok by now i've lost many of you, yer gone, but those who are still with me, ok I agree, i've veered off the original qr tag path, sorry its the linker in me, i wanted these links remembered somewhere. In any case, i did find what i wanted more signal, less noise. Sure you could debate ummm theres alot of noise here, well thats "like" noise, which is better than just noise in general.
More on this later... i'm still surfing and qr code? Oh ya baby, we're gonna get into that soon.
global LBS challenge
locate it!
get connected with icontact, more and more of these things are poppin up
???? lol... http://www.mobilecloak.com/mobilecloak/index.html
tasty delicious addon
very cool camera phone tech
remember M? er that is generation M, my brother at Wendy’s was talkin about M the other day, the generation to be, the generation that must be ON at all times, slaves to the feed.. who are they.. see here :
ok now i should go to bed, but i cant...
btw, i'm officially 36 years old.. happy b day to me....