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I attended yesterday’s Breakfast with Jeff Pulver, billed as “the only breakfast with real-time social tagging”. This was an attempt to apply some of the practices of electronic social networking to the face-to-face world. It is in line with my own thoughts about “tag tags” expressed in a previous post.
Jeff describes his process in a [...]

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Here’s another cool tag tag application given to me by a friend who regularly attends the OrigamiUSA Annual Convention.
So, as origamists(?) walk around and encounter one another in physical space, they display this structured metadata about themselves re: an origami project they would like to learn or teach. This sort of tag tag seems ideally [...]

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(Note: this is a little long, but I’ve been thinking about it for a while…)
At many meetings or conferences, participants wear name tags. At a minimum the tag contains a self-written first name (perhaps preceded by “Hello. My name is…”). Or meetings with registered users may have name tags with pre-printed names, organizational affiliations, location [...]

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