Archive for June, 2009
Playing Tag on Yellow Lab
So what’s happening in the Yellow Lab?
One of the features that we have been looking at in the Lab are tags and how they can used with the business information that we have.
Tags themselves are certainly not something new with websites like delicious, flickr and Facebook using them to share, save and classify websites, people & places.
Over the last 3 months our users have been busy tagging businesses whether that be something unique, like jazz on Tuesday, something helpful for other users, like free Wifi in Sydney, through to the downright weird, like strange business names.
So what else could you use tags for in Yellow Lab?
So I’m going for a holiday in Noosa with my girlfriend (one of my favourite destinations) and I want to make a list of accommodation places to check out.
I could do a search for accommodation in Noosa then go through the list of results & tag all of the places that I am interested in finding out more information about with ‘accomodation for holiday’.
I can then send the list to my girlfriend to get her opinion on each of the places, if I need to look them up I can go to to my profile page (you have to register to get a profile) and click on the tag ‘accommodation for holiday’ tag to see the list for myself.
Then once I have decided on a place I could then delete the tag from the businesses if I don’t need it any more (through the profile page), leave it for my future reference or if I think it will help others going on the same trip.
Over to you
So why not show us how you would like to use tags by trying it out yourself. If you have any problems, questions or comments please post a comment on the blog.
Go on make your mark and add a tag!
Cheers
Anthony
