Right on!

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

Back on my “old blog”:1, I “wrote”:2 about an IBM research project called “_History Flow_”:3 that studied how Wikipedia pages evolve. Now there is a “multimedia presentation”:4 of the History Flow tool up on the web! Check it out, it’s kind of interesting to see the tool in action. The presenter is “Fernanda Viegas”:5 who is one of researchers who worked on creating the tool.

I originally found the History Flow presentation from a “post”:6 on Scoble’s blog about the “Social Computing Symposium 2005″:7. Here’s a “link”:8 to the full list of presentations from the symposium from Korby Parnell’s blog . Some more good stuff.

[8(Korby Parnells list of Social Computing Symposium multimedia presentations)]http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2005/06/27/433216.aspx

[7(Social Computing Symposium home page)]http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/SCS2005/

[6(Scobles post on the Social Computing Symposium presentations)]http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/06/27.html#a10495

[5(Fernanda Viegas home page)]http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/

[4(History Flow multimedia presentation)]http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/scs2005/12224/default.htm

[3(IBMs History Flow Page)]http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/index.htm

[2(Original Zoinger post on History Flow)]http://www.zoinger.com/archives/2005/04/06/19.11.38/

[1(The old Zoinger blog)]http://www.zoinger.com/old_blog.html

Hey heads, the “Tour de France”:1 starts on Saturday. This will be “Lance’s”:2 final Tour, and he’s attempting to win it for the _seventh_ time _in a row_. But that’s not the point.

The point is is that Lance is doing podcasts as part of his deal with Sirius radio. You can check them out here (Cancel that link… I can’t get it to work for some reason. Try the link from the image on the right from “this”:3 blog instead) . I remember just a few years ago the best “coverage” you could get on the Tour de France was to read the sports section of the New York Times. If you were lucky, the would actually have an article on the day’s race… but most likely all you got were the results (and on some days, you won’t even get that). Glad to see that times have changed.

_*Update: 2005-07-07*_
This podcast is officially *LAME*, so don’t waste your time checking it out.

[3(Lance TDF podcast home)]http://www.tdfblog.com/2005/06/sirius_to_offer.html

[2(Lances web site)]http://www.lancearmstrong.com/

[1(The official TDF site)]http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html