Today marks the first beta version of our Drupal AutoTagging module.

This has been a long time in the works, and included several conversations between myself and Frank Febbraro, the creator of the original autotagging project and maintainer on the OpenCalais module, which this initiative is designed to facilitate.

The goal of this project:

Provide a pluggable framework for fetching taxonomy (tag) information from third party services.

The initial release of the project supports three different tagging services:  read more »

Twitter won't work with my social network, because my social network relies on keyword taxonomies. So, right now, it's easy to associate twitter with a profile, because it's a 1-1 relationship. And I can build a twitter channel (#workhabitinc) for example, to pull from multiple twitter feeds. Channels are fantastic because it's folksonomic, which means it's meta-data generate by people at the time of their post (as opposed to pre-defined categories).  read more »