Jarrod Trainque

6Oct

Introducing TagLand

Posted 3 years, 1 month ago - 4 comments

I built the following little experimental web site over this weekend, called TagLand:

Visit it here: TagLand.

TagLand is an experiment in tag-based content aggregation. It lets you browse content from various sites that use tag-based taxonomies. Currently it displays content via del.icio.us, furl, flickr, buzznet, and technorati.

It’s kinda basic now, but I hope to add more features over time, including aggregated RSS feeds. Enjoy!

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4 Comments

  1. Comment by erik — October 6, 2005 @ 11:06 am

    wicked cool. I love the design as well.

    A couple of things:
    1) start a mailing list so people can talk ’bout it
    2) when i refresh a page it varies the amount of posts returned. does it time out or have a minimum wait period before refreshing?

  2. Comment by Mike — October 6, 2005 @ 12:03 pm

    Interesting experiment. Where do you hope to go with this? If you want to add data from www.blinklist.com, let us know if you need anything from our end.

    Mike

  3. Comment by Jarrod — October 6, 2005 @ 2:44 pm

    Hi Mike. Not really sure where I want to go with this yet, it’s really just experimental. (That and it’s another places to put ads, which might be beneficial in terms of covering host fees.)

    One thing I like about tag-based organization of content is that it mixes the benefits of manually categorized content (e.g. Yahoo!) with more objective algorithm-based content categorization (e.g. Google). In other words, tag based taxonomies let you find content that’s been “blessed” by the masses in some way, which is valuable. I’m just exploring that idea with this project.

    In terms of next steps:

    • I would like to add more tag-based sources into the list
    • build more rules around what content surfaces when
    • work on creating db-driven backend
    • offer aggregated tag-based (topical) RSS feeds for syndication
  4. Comment by Jarrod — October 6, 2005 @ 4:06 pm

    Erik: thanks, glad you like the design. It’s typical jarrod-styled-minimalism, I think.

    Currently it uses random variables to determine how many items are returned from each source, so yes, it changes with reload. I’m not sure how I want this to work, so that might change.

    For one, load time increases significantly as new RSS feeds are added, but returning 2 items instead of 1 item per source doesn’t double load time. The change is negligible, and so its more efficient to return more that one item. I like the mix, but I’m not sure that makes the most sense. Maybe as sources increase, I’ll just return the most recent (newest) item with that tag(?)..

    As far as mailing lists go… I’ll create one with the official 1.0 release, and as traffic increases and I get more clarity on vision/purpose of this experiment. For now, folks can leave a comment here.

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