You may have noticed tag clouds before, over at Technorati or if you use del.icio.us. A tag cloud is essentially an assortment of the tags you and others use to mark their blog posts. With the tags you use the most appearing in larger font than others. It’s fun, and a great part of the semantic web. A new, promising, free service on creating and using tag clouds is… TagCloud! Talk about self-explanatory names for a service. You can use it to add a tag cloud to your blog, and show people what you blog about the most as well as provide easy access to other such content. Simply by adding news feeds. TagCloud costs nothing to sign-up and use, and offers a selection of various different styles to pick for your own clouds. It is possible to customize your cloud using CSS to better suit your blog design. You can visit them here.
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February 25th, 2006 at 10:19 am
tagcloud.com takes too long to get your clouds updated. I waited for over a week to see mine updated and I gave up. I’m now trying zoomclouds.com and so far so good. Any other services like these you know about?
February 25th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
There’s many services like that out there. zoomclouds seems cool, and they also have a “tag advertising” service on the same network, which according to this post by Ken isn’t so hot. Anyhow, you can find more info on this article:
Wikipedia - Tag Cloud
February 27th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Thanks!
September 12th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
I used ZoomClouds for a stretch of weeks and mine stopped updating. I sent numerous emails to support and heard nothing back. To say the least, that was pretty disappointing.
Did you have any better luck? I know Guy Kawasaki was using ZoomClouds too but then I noticed his wasn’t updating either, and I let him know. It’s been gone from his blog for awhile.
September 13th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
TagCloud had server problems, according to founder John Herren. They are however in the process of solving this problem, through moving to another host which should be able to keep up with the demand for the service.
As far as ZoomClouds is concerned, I haven’t heard of them having this kind of problem yet.
The good thing is that since tag clouds are so popular in the blogosphere, a simple google search should provide you with many alternatives.