I have been noticing a trend on many ecommerce sites recently away from providing category pages - that is, instead of providing top-level categories, a number of subcategories, some subsequent categories, and finally listing pages, sites are skipping some levels of category pages and going straight from top-level or subcategory pages to listing pages with hundreds of items.
Example: Men -> Shirts -> Polos (Listing 20 items) vs. Men -> Shirts (Listing 300 items)
I am looking for examples of web applications or site that use
hierarchical tags or nested tags. For example, I've found that
delicious.com has "tag bundles" which lets the user group related
tags and see all items tagged with anything in that bundle.
Are there other examples you know of that let the user build and use
tags within tags?
I'm doing an evaluation of the publically accessible tag cloud
generators. Tagging is quite popular now, but most of the tagging
activities belong to folksonomy, which users tag manually. Tag cloud
generators are used to create tag clouds automatically. There are
ways to generate a tag cloud:
1. Given a piece of text, create a tag cloud according to the
frequency of the words.
2. Given a URL of a web page, generate a tag cloud based on the
existing links on that web page
I found several tag cloud generators on the web and use them for my
I'm not a strong user of it, so I'm curious what the perception is. It seems to be highly adopted, but I want to know if it works well when seeking out information?
My Luddite hardcopy background makes me wonder if its lack of hierarchy is an Achilles' heel. (Perhaps specifying multiple tags is the workaround.) I've also noticed a recently-mentioned site where one term seemed infiltrated with overly promotional links, thus my motivation to inquire.
As some of you know, I've been working with a developer to make a
light-weight CMS/publishing tool. We've focused on magazines and other
small publications, and we've run into an interesting conundrum.
Picture a webzine. You've got your stories, and you've got pages about
writers guidelines, and how to advertise, and all that.
We will have both tagging and categories on any article/story. So far
we've had "stories", which are time based, more or less, and scroll down
the front page, and "pages" that are fixed in time, and are just in the