At the SMX Social Media Conference panelists spoke about tagging and social bookmarking.

Updates are usually good things, resulting in a cool new design, added features, or greater reliability.  But MyBlogLog seems to have goofed – while introducing tagging to its site, the Yahoo-owned social network basically called social media optimizers “spammers” and “schmoes.”

The language used to describe the Semantic Web is complicated enough – at a glance, it looks a bit quantum theory-ish, just enough to make your eyes roll back into your head to look for ways to kill themselves – but Tim Berners-Lee, who’s responsible for all those Ws littering your URLs, inspired enough faith that whatever the Semantic Web was, it could be accomplished.

I’m probably a typical web user. Whenever I see a website page or a blog post that has something interesting, I’ll bookmark it in Firefox (or add it to favorites in Internet Explorer).

That’s the traditional way of keeping track of content out there you want to refer to again.

The blogosphere has evolved into a living, breathing organism; the interrelated parts stemming from its bloggadocious heart have branched to include tags, vlogs, and podcasts. It even has its own virus – the splog. This evolution spurred Technorati’s Dave Sifry to redefine it as the "Live Web," growing not as fast as it was, but growing nonetheless.

I spent most of the last two weeks on the road – teaching down in San Diego at the WebSideStory DMU and manning a booth at the Omniture Summit. Going out and talking to so many people is always interesting (if a bit daunting for an essentially shy guy) – and if you take out the travel parts it was all pretty enjoyable.

Pandia Search Engine News suggested as 2007 opened that this is the year of Social Media Marketing (SMM). Certainly and not unexpectedly everyone seems to be talking about it. In response, the Cre8asite Forums have opened a new Forum on Social Media and Tagging.

User-generated video, blogs and podcasts are categorized by their creators and by those that choose to save the content and tag it. Tagging by original content creators and those who use-tagging systems is both a search and social function, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Technorati announced tagging just two years ago! I found it hard to believe that tagging is only two years old. But on the web, I guess two is much longer than I think.

I wrote earlier about Google’s effort to enlist users to tag images, in part through a competitive game that offers an incentive system.

Collaborative vocabulary, or collabulary, could make online content into a much more accessible repository by virtue of standardizing how content is tagged by its users.

His book on tagging, “Everything Is Miscellaneous,” won’t be available until next year, but David Weinberger’s thoughts on tags, those little scraps of metadata, were heard at a session of today’s Syndicate Conference.

In part two of Technorati founder David Sifry’s State of the Blogosphere notes, we find the blog search engine tracks a couple million more blogs than it did two weeks ago.

Social community websites, user-edited encyclopedias, and content classification by taggingall of these can be utilized by the savvy search marketer to garner traffic for a website.

Rob Hof succinctly describes a new service priming for launch called Edgeio.

One of the most successful concepts of 2005 was most certainly “tagging“.

The CEO of Pluck discussed how the newest service, social tagging site Shadows, presents a good experience for its users.