Video tagging with Viddler.com

I was on the wine library TV a few days ago and whilst watching “90 Point Wine Values - Episode #248” and I saw these small circles on the video time line. I curiously hovered over them and was surprised when a little bubble of information popped up. Oh “how cute” I thought. So I clicked it and nothing happened, I clicked a few more times and then the video jumped to a new part of the clip. Not sure why the first time I clicked it didn’t work, my connection was slow? Who knows. Wanting to know more about this new idea for tagging video I clicked through to Viddler whose logo appeared in the bottom right corner of the video player.

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Tag-tastic

Tagging is becoming a well known attribute for finding and browsing web content nowadays. You even see them displayed visually. On most user driven sites you are encouraged to add these tags to your contributions to help the findablity of your posts. This is great; sites get the users to do what would be hard monotonous work for an individual. I also like the way it increases awareness as to how we can add some meaning to yet another piece of data added to the colossal network, known as the t’interweb. Read the rest of this entry »