Google, Microsoft Search the Local Web
Microsoft Research: "The WWMX, short for the World-Wide Media eXchange, is an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. Our goal is to explore… Read more »
Category: meta-tagging the universe
Notes on Photoshop Album
Michael Sippey: "Where it shines, though, is its application and use of photo metadata. Adding categorization to photos is a drag-and-drop action, or a right-click action, or a menu-driven keyboard… Read more »
On Search: Metadata
Tim Bray: "Historically, the difficulty of collecting metadata at source has been generally large enough to outweigh the (potentially huge) benefits from collecting it. But I for one am not… Read more »
Easy New topics
Sifry’s Alerts: "Last week, Paolo Valdermarin and Matt Mower released their specification of Easy News Topics 1.0 (ENT), which is designed as an RSS 2.0 module that can add topic… Read more »
Meta Meta
Hello World. Meta [Google – AllTheWeb – Daypop – Stock Quote – Stock Chart – News – Comments – Trackback – Referrers – Sources – More Like This – More… Read more »
A New Kind of Productivity Application
O’Reilly: "One of the off-the-cuff observations I made in the variant of my talk Watching the Alpha Geeks that I delivered at the O’Reilly Mac OS X Conference was that… Read more »
Some Media Do Too Much Meta
Look at this CBS Marketwatch article. All the options attached to company names (BUD: news, chart, profile) are (ARSE: news, chart, profile) overwhelming (OVER: news, chart, profile) and come in… Read more »
What is Bitzi?
"Bitzi is a website where people cooperate to identify, describe, and discover files of all types. With Bitzi: You can look up descriptions, comments, and ratings about your files
BlogData Tutorial
David Gagne: "My blogdata has seven sections. 1. a "read more" link if it’s an extended entry 2. similar entries 3. the "hidden" entry-editing link 4. a permalink 5. comments… Read more »
A glimpse into the state of musical metadata (circa 2010)
Ok, so we’re having cool tools to handle our digital music collections, but here’s why we’re only scratching the surface. The id3tags we get are mainly about the physical media… Read more »