I thought this morning I’d point out a few new tagging features over at SharingLinks.com.
First, for those not familiar with the project, here’s a quickie overview. SharingLinks.com is a social bookmarking project for educators and parents and anyone interested in educational use of the Internet. The purpose is to “share” our bookmarks and great site finds by posting them at the site. In a nutshell, the entire experiment is dependent on “tags” which are keyword phrases that each user adds to their shared bookmarks.
Okay .. now here’s a sneak peek at one of new tag enhancements at SharingLinks: in addition to the boolean “AND” operator, we now also have a boolean “OR.” Or, if you prefer, we have union as well as intersection. Here are some examples.
First we have all bookmarks tagged “keyboarding”
http://www.sharinglinks.com/tags/keyboarding
Then we look in the Related Tags box in the upper-right of the page, and we see tags such as typing, keyboard, games, alphabet, and so on. Clicking on any the tags, will bring up a list of the the bookmarks so tagged. But notice the + and |. These are our boolean operators “and” and “or” respectively.
Noticing that some users use the tag “typing” INSTEAD of “keyboarding” .. we get a more comprehensive listing of bookmarks by looking at those that are tagged EITHER “keyboarding” or “typing”. We get here by clicking on the | symbol next to the tag “typing”.
http://www.sharinglinks.com/tags/keyboarding|typing
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