Posts Tagged ‘tagging’

TAGtheLOOK is a Facebook application by Uppy Media. It lets users interactively tag their own or their friends’ outfits in existing social network photo albums and share with their friends using a real time feed. Ultimately, it takes users to online shopping.

Uppy Media won DEMO gold award among alpha pitch companies in DEMO 2010 spring conference. See the video here.

The company makes money through affiliate links, so if you just have to have that dress your best mate wore on Friday night, you’re in luck – and so are Uppy.

For similar ideas in this space check out Pixazza, Udorse , and Coolspotters.

In conjunction with the 17th International Conference on “Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management by the Masses” (EKAW 2010) there is a call for papers.

This workshop will not focus on the overall topic of social web applications, e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook and so on, since there are already various initiatives on the topic (e.g. the ICWSM conference as well as various workshops SDOW, etc.) but our main focus will be research conducted on tagging systems, based on the three aforementioned areas. Then, we encourage the submission of research papers that deal with the following topics of interest (but not limited to):

• Semantic Tagging and Linked Data
• Semantics of tagging systems
• Tagging systems versus controlled vocabularies
• Extreme tagging methodologies
• Tagging systems in enterprise environments
• Information retrieval in tagging systems
• Tagging and augmented reality
• Best practices for tagging
• Social aspects of tagging
• Prospective views on the future of tagging systems
• Evolution of tagging systems
• Dynamics of tagging systems
• Ontology learning from tagging systems
• Datasets and baseline for evaluating semantic tagging systems
• Social Network analysis based on tagging systems
• Tag and Resource recommendation
• Tags in genuine Web 2.0 applications vs tags in streamed data (e.g. Twitter)
• User profiles from tagging information
• People-tagging
• Multilingual tagging systems
• User-feedback in tagging systems

The deadline of the submissions is 11th of July 2010, the workshop will be held at the 14th of october.

For any further information feel free to check the homepage of the workshop.

Bueda increases the value of rich media and user-generated content via its innovative semantic analysis engine. Leveraging research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, Bueda combines user-generated tags, existing ontologies, and semantic analysis in order to provide publishers with actionable information that can be used for content categorization, targeted advertising, content recommendation and search engine optimization. Via Bueda’s API, any UGC website can have access to the latest technology for tag disambiguation and cleanup with minimal integration hurdles.

Tags are increasingly used to organize user generated content. They give the users the freedom to tag their content with the words that make sense to them making it easier to find their own content. Unfortunately, different words are used for the same things and it is very common to find tags that are missing spaces, have typos, and are redundant or not informative. A publisher with tags of this sort is unable to connect content properly or target advertising effectively. Tags enriched by Bueda can provide not only a better overall user experience but can increase revenue generated from user content.

The Bueda API can transform noisy and redundant tags into back clean, normalized tags, with a breakdown of the semantic concepts represented in the tags. This means that your users still have the freedom of tags, and you still get the benefits of neatly categorized and curated content.

The result is happier users, a better user experience and more revenue.

The Bueda API is currently in private beta.

You can find all the info and even a demo at the Bueda website:  http://www.bueda.com

I just found a very interesting article about the application of social tagging in corporate domains. Some quotes found in the article:

“As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world. (…) Organizations are thus looking to social tagging as a potential solution for increased findability on intranets, news/blog monitoring and collaboration in workgroups. The enterprise context is different however, and many of the elements that make social tagging work on the Web make it a challenge behind the firewall.

(…) A hybrid solution that employs social tagging and formal taxonomy as complementary information access approaches is emerging as a winning solution.

Organizations are interested in using social tagging technology both within workgroups and across the enterprise. Tagging can supplement information retrieval options in intranets and document management systems, allowing employees to use tags to enhance the findability of internal and external content without waiting for an information professional to categorize it.

(…) These all sound like great benefits, so why doesn’t every company implement social tagging? (…) The first major difference between the Web and the enterprise is nature of the content.

The first major difference between the Web and the enterprise is nature of the content. (…)

People are also different on the Web vs. the enterprise. (…)

Other issues that must be considered pertain to the quality of tags and tagging systems. (…)

Essentially, organizations should not be afraid to get involved in social tagging: it is a simple and inexpensive way to inject a little Web 2.0 into your employees’ lives and supplement more formal approaches to findability. (…)”

You can find the whole article here: http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-social-tagging-and-enterprise-does-tagging-work-work.html