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.
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Keeping tags private or sharing them with the world

One of Zigtag’s major features is its highly tunable levels of privacy – Zigtag was designed from the ground up with privacy in mind. Privacy levels can be chosen on a tag- or page- level and are customizable for each site you visit.
Every user starts with a default privacy setting that can be chosen during [...]

Zigtag’s Social Features: Zigtag Groups

Zigtag groups are a great new approach to collaborative research and learning that allows any group of people to share resources and discuss the group through a forum.
Groups can be private (only members can see the content of the group), membership (everybody can see but only members can contribute), and public (everybody can see and [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Zigtag!

Welcome to the Zigtag blog! I’ll try to post a new post every couple days, detailing new features, features we’ve had for a while, stuff that’s going on with the company, and general keep-you-up-to-date posts.
As a first post, I guess it’s good to get it out of the way – what is Zigtag?
Zigtag [...]