I-D Media London Blog » Bookmarking http://blog.i-dmedialondon.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:42:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 What is a tag? http://blog.i-dmedialondon.co.uk/2008/08/what-is-a-tag/ http://blog.i-dmedialondon.co.uk/2008/08/what-is-a-tag/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:20:36 +0000 admin http://www.i-dmedialondon.co.uk/blog/?p=49 The new delicious.com thinks it’s a… well luggage tag! Although the origin of the term tag hasn’t really taken too much of my thought time in the past, this association with something so ‘real’ and indeed dated seems odd. It may just be part of the graphic launguage delicious have engineered to bring the product more into the main stream.  

http://l.yimg.com/hr/10313/img/searchbartag.gif

Whilst on the subject of delicious.com, another example of the mainstream movement would be the depreciation of the old URL del.icio.us. This is a real shame in my view. The previous URL was more than simply a domain, it was a brand mark, a nice nod to the technology and the origins of the site. Now it’s simply another generic domain name, albeit one that more word of mouth friendly, that disappears into the noise.

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