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Tag Cloud Vs Category tree for social content
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Re: Tag Cloud Vs Category tree for social content
#2What is a better model for using tags on social content websites?
Tag Cloud? - Since this caters to the long tail of users looking for 'interesting' content? eg: flickr
Category tree? - Since this gives more targeted/specific information to users 'looking' for specific information. The categories again could be designed through user generated tags. eg: subreddits, digg
Combination? - Is the 'best of both' a good model?
Or, will a tag-search based model suffice?
Or, does it depend on how domain specific the social content platform is?
Re: Tag Cloud Vs Category tree for social content
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I think the tag cloud is self explanatory in the sense, the font of the individual tags depends on the amount of content under a particular tag. It's a visual representation of the category system where the amount of content in each is represented by a number in brackets in front of each category.
Both these techniques have their own pros and cons as one is more visual while the other asks the user to find out where he wants to go.
I think a combination of both might be the optimum solution, where the content is provided under tags which are pretty broad and category and sub category takes the user deeper and is more useful for users who are looking for specific information.
Re: Tag Cloud Vs Category tree for social content
#4What is a better model for using tags on social content websites? Tag Cloud? - Since this caters to the long tail of users looking for 'interesting' content? eg: flickr Category tree? - Since this gives more targeted/specific information to users 'looking' for specific information. The categories again could be designed through user generated tags. eg: subreddits, digg Combination? - Is the 'best of both' a good mode…
Personally, I don't use tag clouds. I have browsed many sites with tag clouds and I view them as mere space fillers.
Re: Tag Cloud Vs Category tree for social content
#5tags and categories are two sides of the same ontology coin
with tags, the ontology is built from the bottom-up without a hierarchy or direction
with categories, the ontology is built from the top-down and usually a hierarchy
at the end of the day, they are both simply a subset of the english language associated with content