HubTag Closed

Hey Guys

HubTag's platform independent multi media sharing? It's so over.

Single platform multi-media sharing -it's so the future.

Yep, we're moving to Facebook.

Thanks for the ride, it was fun.

Laters

Tobs and Jonty

hubtagging on good friday

Happy Easter everyone - try the new hubtag nickoftufnellpark

HubTag's go walkabout..

Today we discovered how far reaching HubTag's are in the Web2.0 world. I decided to install ShoZu on my Nokia phone today (a basic 6230i), it's a fairly standard model that i've had for about a year now. To get the software intalled visit http://www.shozu.com and follow the instructions for your particular model.. It's a bit fiddly getting started, the key thing is the ability to connect to the net from your phone. But once you're set up the power is immense, I was able to tag a photo with "hubtag" and send it to my FlickR account in seconds, with a couple of clicks and all from my phone. I did the same with a short video that I filmed of Toby in the office, tagged it and uploaded it direct to YouTube from my phone, it was live on the internet within seconds and most importantly it was "HubTagged" and could therefore be detected by my "HubTag" RSS FEEDblendr report which I could track on the web from my PC or even on my mobile phone

We now have the tools to take HubTag's anywhere we go. Whether you're at work, at a concert or a friends birthday, with the combination of free Web2.0 available you can record your days with photos and videos, using your mobile and upload them for all to see anytime, anywhere. C'est pretty cool, n'est-ce pas?

all the best -

Jonty

Feed me my HubTag some more

Of course the most proven way to use RSS is by downloading an "RSS Reader" - a piece of software dedicated to reading these RSS feed things.

I recommend you check out Great News which is really cool as it makes your hubtagged items appear as if like a newspaper.

Otherwise here's More Feed Reader Software to choose from

If you've upgraded to Internet Explorer 7 then there is support for feeds built in - just click the link and you'll be able to read your hubtag feed.

Have fun

Tobs

Feed me my HubTag as a screensaver

HubTag now lets you create your own "rss feed" for your HubTag by combining your youtube videos, flickr photos and blog postings that have been tagged with that HubTag.

This means you can now do cool new things - like you can turn your hubtag into a screensaver.

Install an RSS based screensaver like:
RSS More - this is slightly early software but it does sort of work in its own way. I have tried it on my PC at least!

Though you might be better off waiting for Microsoft to get their version launched http://screensaver.msn.com/ - if any readers know of some good RSS reader screensaver creators please comment below.

Anyway, once you have the RSS screensaver installed you just tell it where to get your hubtag feed i.e. http://www.hubtag.com/feed-YourHubTag
(go to Use on the HubTag home page to get this as a link so you can just copy and paste it in)

So now anything that ever appears on the web anyway tagged with my HubTag will eventually find its way onto my screensaver - pictures, videos and blog entries.

Pretty cool, more to follow

Tobs

ps. for techie interest: I used yahoo pipes to do the merge, yeah - pipes is awesome.

Personomy speaking, i'd prefer a HubTag over a SKOS any tag of the week.

The W3C Mulitmedia Semantics Incubator Group have published a textbook definition of "collaborative tagging use cases" in their Wiki . They have quite rightly highlighted one of the limitations of tag-based annotation.

i.e.
"Personomy reuse is currently not easily possible as each platform uses ad-hoc solutions and only provides tag navigation within its own boundaries: there is no standardization that regulates how tags and relations between tags, users, and resources are represented. Due to that lack of standardization there are further technical issues that become visible through the application programming interfaces provided by some tagging platforms:"

What's a Personomy? - An aggregate of an individual's tag vocabulary.

What's a Folksonomy? - A collection of all personomies.

Ok, so essentially what these guys are saying is that it's going to be virtually impossible to police the tag vocab and stop folk stamping on each other's personomies, thus greying the margins of an individual's tag verbage.

This is where we feel HubTag plays an important role, giving individuals the opportunity to form unique tag words that will help keep their personomies as individual as they so wish.

HubTag's are very much for the masses, they are the equivalent of street words, quick to make, ready to use. The W3C are still pursuing their own solution to the current limitations, and are currently developing a standard vocab called SKOS Core (Simple Knowledge Organisation for the Web) that should eventually provide enterprise users with cross-platform tag standards.

In the meantime we hope you continue to enjoy creating original HubTags for your own personomies.

kind HubTags -

Jonty

The HuBTag Trio.... Make, Use & Search

Web2.0 is really putting the web in the hands of the consumer. In the past the vast majority (99%) of us sat back and watched the Web as it took shape. Now we (100% of us) can actually climb in and make our own individual presence on the web in a whole host of different Web2.0 ways.

In general Web2.0 terms, there are 3 distinctive user groups; the creators, the doers and the viewers. The creators come up with new ideas, the doers use these ideas to do something else with and the viewers just search & sit back and watch.

In HubTag terms we will have exactly the same user demographic;

Make - those who make (the creators) the HubTag for a particular purpose e.g. JohnandBettysWedding2007

Use - those who use (the doers) something with the HubTag, e.g. attach to a series of photo's or blogs.

Search - those who want to search (the viewers) see what's happening that darn HubTag.

Hence we've decided to re-jig our interface to make live as easy as possible for the Trio of HubTaggers. It's obviously still very much Beta but we hope it makes it easier to use. Feel free to post us your feedback.

all the best -

Jonty