Tagging Comes Out Of The Shadows

The CEO of Pluck discussed how the newest service, social tagging site Shadows, presents a good experience for its users. Sometimes this vast world seems a lot smaller. A lot of that comes from social networking, the kind of effort Dave Panos' company Pluck wants to accomplish with Pluck Corporation, which developed its eponymous RSS reader. Shadows became the second product to emerge, and it ties in to Panos having always worked in collaborative spaces, dating back to his time at Databeam. Shadows does collaboration as social networking with tagging. Panos explained how they've based Shadows around a search paradigm, but Shadows goes beyond just the tag-and-search method of recent Yahoo acquisition del.icio.us. Panos wryly noted the Yahoo deal removes one of their competitors from the market. When tagging a page with Shadows, it creates a 'shadow page' in the user's profile. From there, the user can start a discussion about the page, and others can contribute their comments. Hence the collaboration aspect that appeals to Panos. Over time that collection can grow to hold a number of pages and tags. As more users do so, another aspect of finding information comes into play: discovery. (We touched on discovery in our interview with IBM's Marc Andrews, APIs open for developers, buttons specifically for users of the very hot MySpace networking site. Most recently, Shadows released its here. Add to Del.icio.us") |