TagWorld is a Web 2.0 application allowing you to create a blog, share your pictures, store your bookmarks, expand your friend networks. Currently in public beta status, TagWorld is free and open to everyone.

The sign-up procedure is fast and easy and without even checking your e-mail you start to add content to your personal social portal. Too bad the only part where I dedicated the most time of my trial just got wasted: the article I posted (very nice editor!) didn’t want to be saved.

Fortunately I used the very smart HTML feature of the editor, I copied the code and, after having created a new post, I pasted it in the new entry. And here is my shiny First Post on TagWorld.

All of the different areas and services are summarized and available from the Website homepage. Every section can be edited in-place. There you have a summary of your profile, with a photo if you added it; the pictures you uploaded; your blog posts and a guestbook to receive comments (it accepts HTML links).

I set-up my website at: TagWorld: Angelmax

Adding a picture was fast and easy. Every photo can be a part of a specific album and tags can be added to it.

Some small quirks:

• I wasn’t able to save my very first blog post during the initial set-up phase.
• The page layout is quite large, fitting barely a 1024 wide pixels.
• The location section is correctly reporting my city but the map is not showing it. (Rome is still to be build?)

In conclusion I liked TagWorld: fast, easy and funny to use.

Here is some other articles about TagWorld:

• TechCrunch
• Voxefx
• Adam Bouskila
• OS X Code
• Internet News

Minding the Planet gives a deep and futuristic speculation about the Web to come:

I believe the next big leap for the Web is what I am calling “The World Wide Database.” The World Wide Database is a globally distributed network of data records that reside on millions of nodes around the network which collectively behaves as a giant virtual, decentralized database system. Google Base is an attempt to try to build such a database on a single node. But I don’t think that approach will ultimately become the WWDB. At best it will be a huge data silo, or many silos in one place.

Minding the Planet: Towards a World Wide Database (WWDB)

Tagyu suggests tags for text content or URL according to other people’s tagging behavior.

Link: Tagyu

Learning how to communicate with your clients can be a tough task, indeed. They need to know who you are, what you do and why you’re better in a very short amount of time. This site is devoted to helping you understand what it takes to get people excited and thinking.

Only 30 Floors — Helping You Find Your Business Focus

Life-management mapping: wow!

Provide a comprehensive time view and mechanism for navigating an evolving modern society.

Time-life navigation site map

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

Emily Chang - eHub

Movie Keywords Analyzer (MoKA) is beta search service offered by IMDB.com the most popular information repository about movies. It allows to search for movie titles using keywords. Search results are presented accouding to the matching level of the searched keywords. This allows you to discover similar movies for topic, theme or subject.

Example: searching MoKa for “rome” allowed me to discover three broad categories about moving concering: “ancient-rome”, “rome-italy”, “postwar-rome”.

MoKa is an alternative, explorative way of findinding films talking about things that you specify in the search box. A good research tool.

Pay a visit to: Movie Keywords Analyzer (MoKA)

Found thanks to: K O K O G I A K

Google’s patent on ranking web pages submitted last March is the starter for an interesting article from Lorelle on Wordpress about how Google indexes, organizes, and ranks web pages in its huge database.

If you want to optimize your website for Search Engines, and for Google in particular, according to Lorelle you should focus on:

Links

Get many, with high pagerank, incoming, relevant, well-coded, well-worded links. Get such links in a soft, balanced manner over time. The history factor is as important as the quality one.
Too many links with the same text are not building up value. Change the text of your incoming links (if you can!) using descriptive words, pertinent to your topic. Forget about link exchange, link buying and link spamming. Valuable links are within a rich textual context. Choose carefully where your link appears.

Domain Names and time

The older the better.

Click throughs

Get clicked. Get visited. Get your newly added and fresh content to be visited.

Traffic variations

If you have a seasonal web sites and Google thinks is legitimate you will not loose your ranking. Hot topics are privileged: track trends and use them in your websites (if you have something clever and useful to tell about it).

Publishing frequency

Choose a posting schedule and stick to it. Do not post too much content all at once. Do not forget to post once daily/weekly/monthly if you chose to do so. Update old pages, keep them fresh (be consistent, just don’t make news up). Be stable over time. Google doesn’t like peaks.

Keywords are still worth

Select and place carefully your keywords. They still matter.

The Big Brother is your friend

Google monitors over many dimensions: user behaviours (who clicks what and when), traffic, ranking, searching, bookmarking, linking, server hosting.

Standards are not so relevant

Provoking point: it is not so important to validate your codes or to strictly follow standards for web development, but still considered in the ranking criteria. Grammatical standards are important indeed: du cek spel eeor tecst.

I liked Lorelle’s summary and I strongly suggest every website owner to read it.

Link: Lorelle on WordPress » Secret Out - How Google Ranks Websites

Further information on Google Search Engine ranking algorithm:

• Google Technology
• Score Higher in Google Search Engine (and why Google is saving the web.)

I just discovered how much useful the Google Toolbar can be. The “Check Spelling” function is really invaluable for bloggers and online editors typing a large amount of text directly online, in HTML forms.

Once you wrote your text you can improve the correctness of if by using the “Check” function of the the Google Toolbar that you must have had installed.

I used it with success in both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

One disadvantage: it’s still not able to discern actual text from HTML tags (Hey, Google! )

Link: Google Toolbar

UPDATE: visit the Guide about how to share large files online to have the most up-to-date list.

Unhappy with the inefficieny of the email to share large files I am collecting all online services offering to share large files. It would be nice to know pros and cons of each, limitations and benefit. For instance, I can’t get to download a 91MB file using yousendit. I tried several times with no succes.

The list:

• YouSendit
• MegaUpload (former YouShareit?)
• Dropload
• ShareBigFile
• Mytempdir.com
• Putfile
• Rapidshare

Any other?