Welcome to the world of HubTags. This will make sharing stuff via the web a little easier for everyone.
So what is it? Well it's pretty simple really - when people post blog entries, photos or videos online there is now a place to add a descriptive "tag" (also known as a label) . If everyone who goes to an event uses the same unique tag when publishing then everyone else can find each others stuff.
We first saw this in action at the fantastic Future of Web Apps Conference when everyone used FowaLondon07 to tag their blog and photo entries.
But we thought, wouldn't it be great if anyone, not just us techies, could have their own tag that they knew was unique across the web. Then when their friends post stuff anywhere in the world with that tag they could use Google to search for it.
So, to make things easier for everyone, we've given these types of tags a name, I hope everyone doesn't mind. We christened them "HubTags". Because, instead of a web page at the centre of an information hub with lots of links (spokes) out to the content on the edge, you use a HubTag instead. Each person simply creates the information in their own preferred web application as usual but tags it with the same HubTag name. The HubTag doesn't exist anywhere except as a tag in people's content. Weird but really cool.
So what is it? Well it's pretty simple really - when people post blog entries, photos or videos online there is now a place to add a descriptive "tag" (also known as a label) . If everyone who goes to an event uses the same unique tag when publishing then everyone else can find each others stuff.
We first saw this in action at the fantastic Future of Web Apps Conference when everyone used FowaLondon07 to tag their blog and photo entries.
But we thought, wouldn't it be great if anyone, not just us techies, could have their own tag that they knew was unique across the web. Then when their friends post stuff anywhere in the world with that tag they could use Google to search for it.
So, to make things easier for everyone, we've given these types of tags a name, I hope everyone doesn't mind. We christened them "HubTags". Because, instead of a web page at the centre of an information hub with lots of links (spokes) out to the content on the edge, you use a HubTag instead. Each person simply creates the information in their own preferred web application as usual but tags it with the same HubTag name. The HubTag doesn't exist anywhere except as a tag in people's content. Weird but really cool.
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So, if you are about to host a party, run a conference, get married then you need to use a HubTag....simply go to www.HubTag.com - create an easy to remember HubTag (our free web service uses Google Search to check that no-one else is currently using that same HubTag) - publicise it among your friends at the event - then two or three days after the event you can start searching for the HubTag on Google and anything they have uploaded will come back to you.
If you think this is a good idea then please give HubTag the thumbs up and explain it to your blog readers.
Cheers
Tobs and Jonty
So, if you are about to host a party, run a conference, get married then you need to use a HubTag....simply go to www.HubTag.com - create an easy to remember HubTag (our free web service uses Google Search to check that no-one else is currently using that same HubTag) - publicise it among your friends at the event - then two or three days after the event you can start searching for the HubTag on Google and anything they have uploaded will come back to you.
If you think this is a good idea then please give HubTag the thumbs up and explain it to your blog readers.
Cheers
Tobs and Jonty
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