Comment tags and d.el.ic.io.us (Score 1) 284
Tags seem to make the most sense when the ui and functionality is built with them as a 'meaningful' organizing principle. And especially in the case of a site like delicious where the search is so comparatively slow :(
The semantic debate (is this a debate?) seems a little silly, though I can imagine that the developer discussions at google during gmail dev were pretty interesting. Personally, I like 'tags', and 'tagging' better because it's easier to say, and less formal feeling than 'labels' which have a certain onerous bureaucratic, kind of officey ring to them. I also find labeling in gmail to be less than optimal, although I don't know if it has to do with the heaviness of the words 'label' vs. 'tag'. Perhaps the lack of cloud format? Perhaps the god-awful drop-down ui that's required for labeling. Not sure which, but gmail could stand to learn a bit from delicious on this count.
The semantic debate (is this a debate?) seems a little silly, though I can imagine that the developer discussions at google during gmail dev were pretty interesting. Personally, I like 'tags', and 'tagging' better because it's easier to say, and less formal feeling than 'labels' which have a certain onerous bureaucratic, kind of officey ring to them. I also find labeling in gmail to be less than optimal, although I don't know if it has to do with the heaviness of the words 'label' vs. 'tag'. Perhaps the lack of cloud format? Perhaps the god-awful drop-down ui that's required for labeling. Not sure which, but gmail could stand to learn a bit from delicious on this count.
