Posts tagged Tagging
New Tagging Suggests Google Sees Translated Content As Duplicates
Dec 7th
Last year Google launched meta tags for sites where a multilingual “template (i.e., side navigation, footer) is machine-translated into various languages but the “main content remains unchanged, creating largely duplicate pages.” This week they ha…
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Feedly 8 Brings Tagging, Infinite Scrolling
Nov 29th
Google Reader may be one of the best things to happen to RSS/Atom feeds, but Feedly is definitely one of the best things to happen to Google Reader, and Feedly 8 makes it even better. With this release, Feedly adds tagging, “infinite” scrolling, and two new views.
The biggie, at least from my viewpoint, is the tagging. Feedly has always supported saving articles for later, but you just end up with a huge pile of items. Finding that really interesting piece on running a startup from last July can be tricky with no way to organize items except chronologically.
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Tagging
With F8, Feedly now has a rudimentary tagging system so you can group articles. I say rudimentary because at the moment, it only seems to support a single tag per item. When I’m tagging items in Evernote or other systems, I often use two or more tags. (Like “tickler” for article ideas and a relevant topic like “javascript” or “hadoop.”) But at least now I can separate items into some sort of order, so that if I want to dig out a piece on Vim from six months ago it should be easier than scrolling through six months of saved items.
The other thing missing here is that you apparently can’t assign tags using Feedly’s excellent keyboard shortcuts. If you’re used to plowing through articles using the keyboard shortcuts, you’ll still have to slow down and get clicky to add a tag.
Tags are private now, but expect more goodies based around tagging with Feedly 9. According to the F8 announcement post, with Feedly 9 you’ll be able to “selectively publish and share your collections.” Sounds just a little like the old days of goodness with Delicious, before that service was sucked up and derailed after years of neglect by Yahoo. (Not that I’m bitter or anything.)
Views
Feedly has always had a number of different “views” you could use to browse your feeds. With Feedly 8, it adds a card view and a new titles view that displays more information for each item. The card view calls to mind a set of index cards, with the text-only posts just having the item title, summary and byline/publication info. Posts with graphics display all the summary info plus a random graphic from the post.
The so-called infinite view comes into play when you have a lot of items in your feeds. Instead of stopping at an arbitrary number of posts, you can simply keep scrolling through items as long as you have more posts to read.
If you haven’t tried Feedly before, this would be a good time to check it out. You don’t need to have a Google Reader account, there’s a default set of feeds you can skim with Feedly even if you’re not signed in. But I do recommend using it in conjunction with Google Reader. Note that Feedly syncs in real time with Google Reader, so changes made in Feedly should reflect in Google Reader as well.
The update is available immediately for Chrome and Safari, but the Firefox version is currently under review. Note that you can still install it, but you’ll be warned that it could “harm your computer.” For the cautious, I’ve installed Feedly 8 and thus far my computer seems unharmed.
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Tagging Non-Friends: Is Facebook Forcing You to Grow Up?
Oct 7th
Facebook is taking yet another step toward becoming more Twitter-like by allowing Facebook profile owners to tag non-friends in the comment threads of their public posts. This update brings Facebook profile users one step closer to becoming their own idealized, public brands, and arrives upon the heels of the Facebook Subscribe button, which allows Facebook users subscribe to public posts.
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To illustrate, here’s a Facebook post that I’ve made completely public. Anyone can see it, and so anyone can comment on it or subscribe to my public posts.
Growing up on Facebook
In the timeline of Facebook personhood, we’re still infants experiencing the Lacanian mirror stage, in which the external image of the body, reflected in a mirror, produces a psychic response that gives the infant a mental representation of the ideal “I.” It never becomes the ideal, yet will strive to become that throughout its life.
In its infancy, Facebook was an entirely private social network whose social contract was about “balanced following”. You and I had to mutually agree to become friends in order to “see” each other.
As the levels of privacy began to melt away, Facebook encouraged its users to “grow up” by making more personal information public.
Tagging non-friends in the comments of public posts brings us one step closer to full Facebook “personhood,” the idealized “I,” and the public, online brand.
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Facebook Makes It Easier to Opt Out of Facial Recognition Tagging Feature
Jul 26th
Facebook is treading carefully with its facial-recognition “tag suggestion” feature and now is making it easier for users to opt out of the feature according to the state of Connecticut, via Bloomberg. When last we heard from Facebook’s facial recognition feature it had just been opened released as a global feature but remained opt out as opposed to opt in, upsetting many users and privacy advocates across the world.
According to Bloomberg, Connecticut’s attorney general George Jepsen said that Facebook will begin running online ads today that link users to their privacy settings, allowing them to opt out of the service. Have you seen the ads to which Jepsen refers? Have you or will you opt out of the “tag suggestion” feature?
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Facebook does not tag people in photos automatically. It tries to recognize what people are in photos and suggests that users tag them. What upsets privacy advocates and government regulators like Jepsen is that Facebook has been sharing personal information by default. Facebook reportedly gave Jepsen assurances that the facial recognition software was used purely in the suggestion feature and that it was not a way for other users to glean more information from user profiles.
Facebook users upload more than 100 million photos to the platform on a daily basis. A company called Divvyshot and founder Sam Odio were acquired by Facebook to help institute the facial recognition feature. Odio, the product manager for photos, left Facebook in June to create a new company called Freshplum.
Bloomberg also reported that Jepsen responded to problems with impostor accounts, making it easier to report and delete them. Facebook added “new language and links to a contact form to help users trying to report an impostor or fake profile.” Part of Google Plus’s trouble around using real names and not allowing brands on the platform at first had to do with authentication and dealing with potential impostor accounts.
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Thanks to Google Plus, Picasa Gets Unlimited Storage for Photos & Videos, Also Better Tagging
Jul 1st
With the launch of Google Plus, there may be some confusion as to how the photos uploaded to the social network (Google+) integrate with Google’s online photo-sharing service (Picasa), especially in terms of storage limits. The answer provides some great news for Google Plus users – nearly everything you upload to Google Plus won’t count towards your storage limits on Picasa, with the only exception being videos longer than 15 minutes.
And there’s another nifty feature involving photo-tagging, too – your Google+ friends can now tag your Picasa photos.
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Unlimited Storage on Picasa
According to a FAQ on Picasa’s support site, the photo-sharing service provides up to 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos to its users. But since Google+ actively encourages storing and sharing photos – its Android app even offers an “instant upload” option - there may have been some concern about storage limits among Picasa users.
As it turns out, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re signed up for Google+, photos up to 2048×2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes long won’t count towards this free storage limit. And Google will automatically resize photos for you when you upload them to Google+, so they stay under the free size limit.
That means only photos uploaded directly to Picasa Web Albums over the 2048×2048 size will count towards the 1 GB of free storage, explains Google. And when that limit is reached, photos will be automatically resized.
Meanwhile, for non-Google+ users, there are slightly stricter rules: photos up to 800×800 and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards free storage. Again, when the 1 GB limit is reached, larger photos will be resized down.
Simply put, this means that whether you’re on Google+ or not, Picasa offers unlimited free storage for photos and videos (under 15 minutes). The difference is that Google+ users can upload higher resolution photos to Plus/Picasa without being penalized.
Photo Tagging, Too!
There are a few other integrations between Google Plus and Picasa to take note of as well, for example, photo tagging.
This very Facebook-like feature lets anyone in your extended network in Google+ tag people in your public photos. The person tagged is given the option to view the album and share it. If you’ve been tagged by someone in your Circles, the tag is automatically approved. You can remove tags on the photos homepage in Google+ or the Photos tab on your Google Profile. And if you would rather have more control, you can adjust this setting to enable manual approval of tags.
For those who were already using tagging in Picasa previously, all existing name tags in Picasa remain when you join Google+.
Additional source, re: storage – Ryo Cook, via Google Plus, of course; Above photo – it’s never too early to be tagged, right Josie?
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Facebook Adds Page Tagging To Photos
May 11th
Facebook announced today that it is launching a feature where users can tag Pages in photos. That means users can now tag brands, businesses, musicians and personalities in their photo streams. Take a picture of your friend holding Pabst Blue Ribbon while dancing at the club? You can now tag your friend and the beer.
The tags will appear on the “photo” tag on the Facebook Page, not on the walls and can be tagged by anyone on Facebook, not just people who have liked that page. For the start of the feature, only Facebook Pages with the “brands & products” or “people” categories can be tagged in photos. Facebook will look to expand that to more page categories over time.
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Facebook says “the privacy of the photo is always respected when a Page is tagged in a photo.” If a photo is tagged for “everyone” then it can appear publicly on the photos tab of the page and page administrators can see it. If a photo is restricted, such as to ones friends, then it will not go on the photos tab of the page. Page administrators can disable pictures from going to the photo tab by going into settings and unchecking “users can add photos.”
This seems like a smart play by Facebook as it tries to become a stronger destination for companies and brands online. Marketers could focus viral ad campaigns around photo tagging like “show us the weirdest place you ever drank a Pepsi and win a trip to Bonnaroo” or something of that nature.
Are you going to start tagging brands in your Facebook photos? Let us know in the comments.
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Google Map Maker: User Generated Tagging of Live Google Maps
Apr 20th
Google has opened up Google MapMaker to all Google Account users to edit any spot in the United States. With the philosophy of “you know your neighborhood best,” Google wants everyone to jump online to tag their favorite bike paths, coffee shops, college buildings and more.
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Google Wants TV Show Owners To Start Tagging Video
Mar 24th
Google is encouraging TV show owners/providers to begin tagging their online videos with several new fields that can be used in both video sitemaps and mRSS feeds. The new fields include specific data for identifying the show/series title, season and episode numbers, premiere date and more….
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Facebook’s Face Recognition Tagging Feature Signalling Photo Search?
Jul 5th
Facebook is currently testing a new feature for pictures that allows automatic recognition of faces and subsequent faster tagging of photos, thanks to newly-acquired technology company Divvyshot. The company says it’s only the first of other new features for Facebook photo, including browsing and uploading. Let’s see the potential implications.
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