Tag Clouds :The One-look Summarizers

What are tag clouds?

Well, Wiki says "Tag Clouds occur when a lot of people begin describing a blog, photo, or other online content with the same tags. The tags are a method for summarizing content with weighted words, describing the item's meaning with a few concise words. The tag clouds form after the original post and other users begin describing the content in their own way. A well formed tag cloud implies that many people would summarize or categorize the content with similar descriptive words (tags). "

Now, in this new Web where millions of pages offer similar information to users, it is necessary that users get to the page which offers most of what they need exactly. Tag clouds do exactly that. By displaying words according to their ‘weight’, they offer a means to evaluate the page with just one look.

If you have already visited Technorati, or even Flickr (which is now Yahoo Flickr), the first site to use Tag Clouds, you must’ve seen how much they assist in finding the pics you need (in case of Flickr) , or telling you what is the new hottest talk on the Net ( Technorati )


The above pictures well speak volumes about whats going on in their respective worlds.

How about telling your readers what your blog is all about and what you have said so far in the blog.In fact,this would interest them and would invite them to read what you have said about some particular topic or so.

Next post ,we'll see how to create a tag-cloud in a Blogger blog.