Boston Restaurant Blog -- August, 2006

Over the past year or so, we have been moving more and more into Web 2.0, or the next stage of the Internet, with such features as blogging, forums, RSS, syndication, and now, tagging. Many of you might be asking the question, What are tags? Well, it's a simple concept, but also a rather fuzzy, flexible one, too. Basically, tags are keywords (or descriptive phrases or terms) that are added to text pages or photos. These tags can help categorize pages or photos, making them easy for people to find.

Tags can also be used to help show which pages or photos are more popular than others--this is the area in which Boston's Hidden Restaurants is concentrating. We have a new page called Tags of Popular Pages on Boston's Hidden Restaurants that shows a handful of pages on Boston's Hidden Restaurants that come up often when people do searches on the Internet. These pages are represented here by tags, which are shown in various sizes. The larger the font size for the tag, the more popular the page.

The tags used on Boston's Hidden Restaurants are a bit different from tags used in various photo or video sharing sites, as many of those sites use tags to group items together by category. But as I say, the term "Tags" can mean many different things in Web 2.0, and we are not going too far with it here, as Boston's Hidden Restaurants doesn't do anything with file sharing. Hopefully the use of tags will give you an idea of which pages are looked at a lot, though, and will make it easier to find some of our most popular pages!

Posted by MH, Boston's Hidden Restaurants, on August 4, 2006.
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