Yomego - The Social Media Agency

Tags

Keywords attached to a blog post, bookmark, photo or other item of content so you and others can find them easily through searches and aggregation. Tags can usually be freely chosen - and so form part of a folksonomy - while categories are predetermined and are part of a taxonomy.

Tag Cloud

A tag cloud is a visual representation of the popularity of the tags or descriptions that people are using online. Popular tags are often shown in a large type and less popular in smaller type.

Technorati

A search engine that indexes blogs, photos and videos. Technorati are currently tracking over 70 million blogs including the 175,000 blogs that start every day.

Thread

Messages that have been posted on a blog or a discussion board as replies to each other are known as threads. By reading each message in the thread you can see how the discussion developed.

TypePad

Unlike Blogger or Wordpress, TypePad is a paid-for blogging service - and the largest of its kind in the world. It's the blog service of choice for many business blogs, large organisations and media companies. Sky News and the BBC use it.

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is an organised way of classifying content, as in a library. Providing contributors to a site with a set of categories under which they can add content is offering a taxonomy. Allowing people to add their own keywords is to endorse folksonomy.

Troll

Troll: A hurtful but possibly valuable loser who, for whatever reason, is both obsessed by and constantly annoyed with, and deeply offended by everything you write on your blog. You may be able to stop them commenting on your blog, but you can't ban them from commenting on other sites and pointing back to your blog, and you can't ban them from posting things on their own blog that point back to your site.

Tweet

A Twitter message - an update about anything and everything under 140 characters. Messages are public unless a profile is protected.