Posts Tagged ‘tagging’

Historically, TV metadata has been used to supply Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) and therefore has been adequate for description at a show level. Typically when the industry talks about TV metadata, they talk about snippets of information and images provided by companies such as Rovi and Gracenote that can be used for the descriptive editorial information, images and multimedia on one show as a whole.

But what about at the scene level? And why is temporal metadata — or Tagging TV — the new oil?

You can find it out having a look at the original entry at http://www.appmarket.tv/opinion/1531-the-channel-tagging-tv-and-temporal-metadata.html

Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web (2008), by Gene Smith. Smith dives into tagging as a method for adding metadata to resources, which in turn increases the organization and findability of the resources.

What’s cool about tags is that you can easily tag the same information with multiple tags. Does the information fall in #techcomm, #contentstrategy, and #findability disciplines? You don’t have to choose one folder to assign the content to. With tags, resources can live in multiple places at once.

Tagging is emerging as one of the most common ways to organize resources on the web. Smith notes that Delicious, a social bookmarking site that first appeared in 2003, was one of the first instances of tagging to emerge online. However, he also notes that classification and metadata strategies have been ongoing for centuries, with the Dewey Decimal system as one of the prime examples.

You can read the whole blog entry at http://idratherbewriting.com/2011/12/26/using-tags-to-increase-findability/

Patent number 7,945,653 titled Tagging digital media has been accepted and assigned to Facebook. Here’s the critical first independent claim: “A method comprising: receiving from a device of a first user a selection of an item of digital media, wherein the item of digital media is stored in a database; receiving from the device of the first user an identification of a person associated with the selected item of digital media; responsive to receiving the information identifying the person, sending a notification to a device of a second user that the person has been identified in connection with the item of digital media; and enabling the identified person to reject the identification, wherein the identified user is different from the first user.”

You can find the whole blog entry at http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/facebook-gets-broad-patent-on-digital-media-tagging/10693

This week at Google I/O, Google is making the Google Prediction API generally available. One really interesting feature is the automatic flagging of content.

The Google Prediction API can be used by almost any app to recommend the useful, extract the essential, and automate the repetitive. For example:

• Recommend a new movie to a customer.
• Identify most important customers.
• Automatically tag posts with relevant flags.

For example, Ford Motor Co. Research is working to use the Prediction API to optimize plug-in hybrid vehicle fuel efficiency by optionally providing users with likely destinations to choose from, and soon, optimizing driving controls to conserve fuel. Because the API is a cloud-hosted RESTful service, Ford has been able to access its computationally-intensive machine learning algorithms to find patterns that rank potential destinations based on previous driving paths. Ford will be demonstrating their work at the API’s I/O Session.

For more info see:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-prediction-api-helps-all-apps-to.html

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.