That right kids Toluu announced today that tagging is now a feature for the feed discovery/sharing service.  I think this should take the service to the next level and allow users to find feeds for certain subjects they are looking for like "Apple", "Tech", "8-Bit", ect.

Here are the juicy details:

*Tag Tab* On every feed page (the page with the blog post summaries) there is a new tab called 'Tags' . In this Tab, front and center, is a nice big text box to start entering a tag for the feed. Adding a tag is very quick with our use of ajax to power the system. You can also see all of the tags you have given the feed under 'My Tags;. And below that, is a 'Top Tags' section, which shows the most popular tags for the feed based on how others in the Toluu universe have tagged the feed. When you are entering a tag, we see if you have tagged any other feeds and we suggest tags based on your past tagging behavior. This makes it faster to enter tags, and helps keep your feeds organized since you can make sure you use the same tag, technology instead of tech, for instance.

*Explore by Tag* If you click on a Tag you will see a list of feeds in the Toluu system that have the tag. You can also sort these feeds in a few different ways: Popularity, Recent, Subscribers, and A-Z. These new sort options are now available on ALL feed list views on the site as well! We heard from users that they wanted more ways to explore the various feed lists on the site; these new sort options help expose feeds of interest better than before.

*Instant Inline Tagging* Tagging is also available on all feed list pages. Logged in users will see a '+ Add Tag' button when they mouse up or down the feed lists. Clicking the button instantly exposes an inline tagging interface. Users have access to the same Auto-Suggest functionality as available on the feed tag page and they can see their tags for the feed. This makes it super easy to go through and tag a large batch of feeds at once or add a tag to an interesting feed instantly.

*Feeds Tag Grouping* When browsing any user's feeds, you will now have access to a brand new view, the tag grouping view. This allows you to, at a glance, see which tags that particular person uses the most, helping you understand what type of feeds they subscribe to. You can see if the user has a lot of 'Art' and 'Photography' feeds or maybe 'Startup' and 'Web20' feeds. This info makes it easier to discover interesting new feeds.

*Profile Top Tags* On every user profile there is a new section 'Top Tags'. This new section will display the user's 5 most used tags. This will help others understand the type of feeds the user subscribes to. It is also a quick way to access all of the tags the user has tagged their feeds with by clicking 'Top Tags'.

Just wanted to say great job to Caleb and keep bring the fresh new features.

what are #hashtags? [from the site]

#hashtags are an easy way to track a specific topic or event using the Twitter network for hyper-instant communication, coordination and reporting.

Two of my favorite things these days is twitter and tagging. I have always thought it would be great to be able to tag twitter posts to get tweets on a certain subject and track that information.

with hashtags that is possible and it is pretty simple to do. All you have to do is subscribe to the hashtags bot within twitter (and have a twitter account of course) then put a '#' in front of a word and you are a hashtag pro! an example would be something like this:

going to the #apple store to get a new #macbookpro.

so with that anyone looking for posts with hashtags of #apple and #macbookpro would get your post.

The tagging of twitter posts is pretty new but seems to be picking up some steam and I think one kool thing would be twitter itself adding tagging and allowing it to not count toward the 140 character count. what do you think?

hashtag blog

another point i just thought I would throw out there you can also subscribe to an rss feed of your hashtags you want to follow - which for me is a HUGE plus.