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Personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

I don't know if this is old or new, but I hadn't seen this before: del.icio.us offers so-called tag bundles. If you have a look on the tags sidebar on my del.icio.us page you will find all "via" and all photography tags bundled together, making the list much more clearly laid out. Such bundles can be created by clicking settings > experimental > tag bundles. Regrettably, there is no wildcard support, so I had to add all via-tags manually - "via:*" would be much easier and more in the spirit of semantic tagging. Later on, I will form more bundles which might also help to contain tag creep (insensible growth of the total number of tags).

Tag bundles are the featureless version of what I call tag clouds, loose groups of related tags which allow to introduce "related tags/nearby tags"-features into tag-enabled applications without having to fall back to fully-fledged hierarchy mechanisms. For del.icio.us, the next step is to move bundles beyond cosmetics: add "show me all links within a tag bundle" aka tag bundle pages and tag bundle feeds, and to make bundles programmatically accessible.