| |
NOVEMBER 27, 2006 
Tool: Tag Clouds Tagging, or the bookmarking of digital photos and videos on content-sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube, allows users to organize information and offers opportunities for quick market research. Amazon.com (AMZN ) has recently started featuring customer tags that allow its shoppers to link to other, related products. Seeing how consumers associate products can inspire hybrid product designs or cross-promotional brand campaigns. Some sites, including Flickr, technorati.com (which tracks blog usage), and the recently launched Vox (a blogging service) offer tag clouds, which are graphic visualizations of tags that are "hotter" among users, depicted with larger type. Tag clouds can provide quick snapshots of what topics, products, and trends are most popular at any given time. 
BW MALL
SPONSORED LINKS
Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.
Buy a link now! Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | |
 Copyright 2006, by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved.Terms of Use | Privacy Notice |
Printer-Friendly Version