Tag Clouds - What Are They? Are They Useful?

In general a tag or word cloud is a visual representation of user-generated tags. They provide visitors to the website with an additional path to navigate the website, and search engines an additional route to use when indexing pages.

Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically with the importance of a tag shown through font size or colour. Site visitors can use this additional navigation to find tagged pages alphabetically and by tag popularity.
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Flickr / Popfly Game

Following from my visit to the Microsoft Popfly website earlier this month, and the ease at which I was able to tap into the Facebook api… I thought I would see what quick and aimless game could be created for a little Friday fun.
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Facebook / Popfly Apple Style Carousel

Popfly is a tool / website from Microsoft, that allows users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Silverlight applications through a set of online tools. The Mashup Creator is a tool that lets users fit together pre-built blocks in order to mash together different web services and visualization tools.
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On YouTube

Friday Fun…  

Yes I have followed the masses and set up a YouTube page. So those looking for a little Friday distraction / entertainment should head over to YouTube - there are plenty of chuckles to be found including my recent attempt at skydiving (http://uk.youtube.com/creativecog) !!!

Not quite sure what else will appear on my channel, only time will tell…

Vote For News Online With Digg

The news industry is moving into some radical new territory. This site (http://www.digg.com) takes things to another level. Digg.com is a technology website that is helping transform the way people consume news online and has just released a new version designed to widen its appeal. I read a newspaper every morning; I enjoy reading the columnists and the editorial, I love absorbing the news available these days. Now though, 20 minutes later I can visit Digg.com and read what hundreds of other people believe to be the most interesting stories around the world in real time. Worth a visit !