July 6th, 2005

Too Many Tags — The Upcoming Tag-Management Nightmare

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Flickr has tags. And so does del.icio.us… and the new “My Web 2.0″:6 from Yahoo!… and so on, and so on, and so on. If you use more than one of these services, you soon find out that you’ve got tags seemingly everywhere. This presents a big problem: How do you keep track — or let along sync — all of your tags?

Ugh… for example, to tag things related to my “Audiovox SMT5600″:5 Smartphone, I use the tag “_Audiovox-SMT5600_”:1 on del.icio.us, but on Flickr for some reason I use two tags “_smt5600_”:2 and “_audiovoxsmt5600_”:3 (and remember, “*no* capital letters”:4 on Flickr).

It would sure be nice if there was *one* place were you could manage all of your tags on all these desperate services.

[6(Check out Yahoo!s cool My Web 2.0 service)]http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/

[5(The old Zoinger blog mini review on the Audiovox SMT5600)]http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/03/15/10.05.52/

[4(Zoinger post on making tags more readable)]http://www.zoinger.com/words/archives/2005/06/27/using-non-letter-characters-and-capitalization-to-increase-readability-of-delicious-tags/

[3(Zoinger Flickr link for the tag audiovoxsmt5600)]http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoinger/tags/audiovoxsmt5600/

[2(Zoinger Flickr link for the tag smt5600)]http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoinger/tags/smt5600/

[1(The ZoingerPosts tag for the Auidovox SMT5600)]http://del.icio.us/ZoingerPosts/Audiovox-SMT5600

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