[Developers] Blog properties and ping idea

[Shawn Simister]

I think tagging blog posts with Freebase topics is a really cool idea. 
As Robert mentioned, traditional tagging suffers from some ambiguity 
because tags like "Brazil" could refer to a country or a movie title. 
With Freebase-enabled tags, you can uniquely define the meaning of a tag 
without resorting to tag names like "brazil_the_movie".

I tried putting together a simple demo in JavaScript. Take a look at it 
here <http://simister.ca/temp/tagging_demo.html> and let me know what 
you guys think.

Shawn

Patrick Tufts wrote:
> Tim Kientzle wrote:
>   
>> In Freebase, a "tag" is just a degenerate "type" with no properties. 
>> Anyone can already create personal types ("tags") and attach them to 
>> Freebase topics in any way they like.
>>     
>
> You could also model tags as topics, which I think would work well in
> Freebase. Here's what I'm talking about:
>
> Tag: Samurai
> http://www.freebase.com/view/%239202a8c04000641f80000000000380c8
>
> Tagged topics: Miyamoto Musashi, Katana, Le Samourai (film), Ronin,
> Seven Samurai
>
> --Pat
>
>
>
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