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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Perhaps popularity is the wrong term. If you look at delicious you can list your tags by name or count. I really meant count... or how popular the tag was (how often it was used) in your database.
So, for example a tag that is applied to 25 items is more popular than a tag that is applied to 8 items. Of course "popular tags" on the delicious home page is based on how many tags are used across all users I assume. If you go to your personal page that isn't a section in the tag list.
(see tag options in delicious). My page is at http://delicious.com/pilotbob.
BOb |
That is what I thought you meant by popularity, but I still dont see the point of it? I mean in what scenario is it useful to know which tags are the most popular in your own database? To be fair I've never really understood the utility of tag clouds either. I'm asking because if I understand the use case, there's a greater probability of my being able to design a useful UI