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Global distributed tagging with Fuzzzy

Our global tagging enables everyone around the world to participate on building tags that are connected and have moe meaning. Instead of adding dumb text categories to your Flickr photos, del.icio.us bookmarks or your blog posts, you can now use a shared pool of tags. By moving away from simple folksonomy tags that are only valid within the single site you can move on to semantic tags that bring with them connectivity and meaning, enabling more precise information retrieval. It also increases findability, learning and consistency. Last but not least it saves you from information overload. If you feel that you are bombarded with information from blog aggregators, twitter messages, email digests, and other infomation channels then fuzzzy might be the thing you are looking for. It helps you to not waste time on popular stuff but instead give you information that you really want and need.

Try it out for your self:

A. Distributed tagging
If you open the tag "Topic Maps" you can click the icon that looks like three red connected nodes. Then some dummy related tags from the tag network will be loaded.

How is it made possible?

The simple version: Global tagging is made possible by the tag-set of fuzzzy which is built using the Topic Map ISO standard and an underlying infrastructure with web services. Members of the online community can create tags and relations between them. Users can also vote, comment and in a democratic way participate to evolve meaningful tags.

Now the geeky version: By using Topic Maps for semantic interoperability and the built in identification model with Public Subject Identifiers (PSI’s) tags becomes universally identifiable. The globally connected tags become a shared vocabulary for both people and computers. By using web services with simplified XTM fragments any peer tagging site can request from all other peers related tags for tags that are found throughout the network. If in two different domains the same subject is mentioned then these domains are be connected when the subject has a published identifier. When a user makes a request for related tags at the global level a request goes out to all peers. The list of remote sites are replicated and stored on each peer. The associated tags at the remote site can then be viewed or imported.