CommonTag – Linked Data for the masses

Today is a great day for the continued growth of linked data and the semantic web, as Zigtag and a number of other companies simultaneously announce support for the new CommonTag format.
The CommonTag format, based on RDFa, is a way for computers to understand the meaning behind the tags that people use.  We’ve discussed the [...]

Zigtag launches!

Today is an exciting day for everyone at Zigtag.  We are happy to announce that Zigtag has now launched into open public beta.  After nine months of private beta, and over two years of development, we are very pleased to open up Zigtag to the general public. To get started, just sign up for an [...]

Group RSS, Friend Recommendations, and Internet Explorer Alpha

This past couple of weeks we’ve been hard at work implementing a few improvements and some major new features.
After many months of working hard (and jumping over many, many hurdles), we’ve finally got a plugin available for Internet Explorer.  It’s in Alpha stage, so it may have problems, but we’d be very grateful to have [...]

Great Article on Zigtag / Update on Future Plans

Zigtag got a great writeup from one of our users, Paul Haley, on his blog.  Not only does the article describe the differences between Zigtag’s semantic tagging system vs. Twine’s, but it also talks about online collaboration with groups, and data portability.
Given that Paul had some questions he raised in the article, I thought I’d [...]

More defined tags now available!

As of this weekend, we have updated our semantic data index. This resulted in the addition of more than 500,000 new defined tags, bringing the total number of defined tags to over 2.2 million.  With the addition of a few new data sources in the near future, this number is sure to grow even further.
In [...]

Introducing Group Discussion Forums

As part of our firm commitment to the social networking benefits of online bookmarking, we have introduced discussion forums to Zigtag groups.
Groups make it easy to network and share with other users who have similar interests. They are useful as a collaborative tool (e.g. for sharing sites with coworkers related to a particular project) or [...]

Zigtag Plugin – Introduction

Zigtag has an extensive sidebar add-on for Firefox that is always ready for you to quickly save the pages you find interesting.
The Zigtag sidebar has four different tabs – “Tag page,” “Explore,” “Share” and “Links.”

The “Tag page” tab is the default tab, and allows you to add tags to a page and quickly see the [...]

RSS Feeds

We’ve been getting a lot of requests for a pretty basic feature – RSS feeds.  Well, the good news is that Zigtag is already fully RSS-compliant!
To get the RSS feed of a single user, the link is:
http://www.zigtag.com/rss/<username>
Note that if you subscribe to your own feed, this will only show public bookmarks (see a later post [...]

Zigtag’s social features

Zigtag has a lot of social features in it, turning your tagging into a social habit. Some of the social features include:

The ability to add friends
The ability to add special interest groups
The ability to send a bookmark to your friends quickly
Discussions on all the major objects in Zigtag (i.e. discussions on a group, tag [...]

Defined Tags – Zigtag makes tags semantic Part 2 of 2

There’s another really important aspect of using defined semantic tags – the fact that there is only one definition for a certain idea.  Let me explain this a bit.  Say you find a page on New York City, and you tag it with “New York”. Months later, you go looking for it again – but [...]