The OPML sharing and matching service Toluu provides a great way to find and share interesting RSS feeds. One feature that had been missing so far, however, was tagging. In its latest update, which was released today, Toluu has made tagging one of the central features of the service, which will make finding new and interesting blogs through Toluu even easier.
Now, every feed page on Toluu will show a "Tags" tab. This tab displays all the tags other users have already attached to the feed, as well as a text box to immediately start entering tags. Toluu also suggests tags based on a user's previous behavior on the site. The experience is reminiscent of tagging bookmarks in delicious, where the Ajax interface also makes adding suggested tags as easy as clicking on the keyword.
Besides this, Toluu has gone out of its way to expose these new features in as many places as possible. When browsing through a list of feeds, for example, a little '+' sign appears next to every feed you mouse over, which then exposes an inline tagging interface.
Because tags are now available on Toluu, the developers have also added the ability to search the complete index of all feeds in Toluu for a specific tag, which is a great way to discover new and interesting feeds to subscribe to.
Overall, we think Toluu did a great job in adding this new feature and making it easily accessible throughout the site. As the tagging feature is still pretty new, only a select few feeds actually have tags attached to them, but as more users start tagging feeds, this will surely become one of the most popular features on Toluu.
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Thanks for the Toluu love Frederic, great coverage!
Posted by: Caleb Elston
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September 3, 2008 9:24 AM
not so easy if you don't have an invite code...;~(
Posted by: jenett | September 3, 2008 10:13 AM
cool, thanks for the info!
Posted by: BPO | September 3, 2008 10:31 AM
Looks like an interesting tool. I've always wanted to search for other blogs to subscribe.
Posted by: Sly from SlyVisions dot Com | September 3, 2008 10:32 AM
Kind of annoying that you're posting about (bland) feature releases on services that haven't even launched yet. What's the point? I mean, obviously, it's just rehashing a Press Release. Not impressed, guys. C'mon. I am, however, impressed with Toluu's PR team which is getting major tech blogs to write about their non-news. Kudos.
Posted by: Mark Schoneveld | September 3, 2008 1:04 PM
Kind of annoying that you're posting about (bland) feature releases on services that haven't even launched yet. What's the point? I mean, obviously, it's just rehashing a Press Release. Not impressed, guys. C'mon. I am, however, impressed with Toluu's PR team which is getting major tech blogs to write about their non-news. Kudos.
Posted by: Mark Schoneveld | September 3, 2008 1:04 PM
Are there any tag aggregators?
Could you be at an address and type "wetag" in Ubiquity/awesome bar and have it
aggregate any references to the url from social bookmark sites,
provided tags (if blog or using tags) and add (and store them
somewhere) to one big cloud displayed in UBQT's preview window (more
references = size?). If there are no references "be the first to add"
to "wetag" for the next person who comes along, command like "bagit"
could add to personal ffx bookmarks too.
Could you then put a voting mechanism next to each tag so that people
could quickly define pages as they best see fit (I realize its a
keyboard oriented product, but maybe tab + arrow keys for votes?).
Then simply typing wetag would give user a pretty good summary of what
was on page, provide an engine for pages with similarly weighted tag
clouds. Other benefits would be that duplicates and misspellings
would occur less as first instance would likely get voted up via click
or key, not typed.
Could you then provide a points system where putting a tag in that get
voted up is worth points and getting your tag voted down subtracts to
discourage plebs, then open these points up to causual/web based
games?
Would this define pages better than a keyword algorithm?
or am I just a crazy question asking loony?
I have a similar rant here http://tinyurl.com/5mvhro (oh how i love
"tiny this")
Posted by: Allan | September 3, 2008 10:15 PM