TagBux

What is TagBux ?

TagBux is a Web 2.0 application developed through Open Source technologies (Java EE and WordPress) and patterned from social networking applications such as Shelfari. It lets you use tags to assign labels to books and was designed to test the accuracy of tagging as compared to the subject headings assigned to books. The library collection that was chosen for this study is the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) Diliman Library. Through this study, library users will be able to discover the popular topics or genres in a library’s collection through the frequencies of tags.

What are tags ?

Tags are one-word descriptors that you can assign to items. In the case of 2 words (word1 and word2) for a single tag, you may tag an item as either word1_word2 or word1word2. You can assign as many tags to an item as you like.

Although there are NO wrong tags, they are categorized into Personal, Subjective, and Factual.

• Personal tags pertain to how a user organizes his/her own resources. (e.g. myreference)
• Subjective tags show a user’s opinions about a resource in terms of qualities or characteristics. (e.g. handy)
• Factual tags associate what a resource is all about. (e.g. math)

Being one of the primary users of TagBux, your participation is needed for the result of this experiment. Kindly spend some time in this activity by searching at least 10 books that are significant to you (e.g. your favorite books) and tagging them. Describe each book by assigning as many tags as you like. Lastly, don’t forget to fill-up the feedback form after tagging the minimum number of books.

There are no right and wrong answers in this activity. I would greatly appreciate your taking a few minutes necessary to complete this experiment. Please be assured that all responses will remain strictly confidential.

As a special incentive for your time, all participants shall receive a link love from my personal blog to your website/blog.

Now go and SEARCH a book, SELECT it, ADD TAGS to it, and fill up the FEEDBACK form.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Pinoy Money Talk – Win $75 in Pinoy Money Talk SEO Contest!

Quoting Pinoy Money Talk (PMT):

In celebration of our upcoming 3rd Year Anniversary this March, here’s our Countdown #3 Contest: The ‘Google my PMT’ $75 SEO contest.If you have a blog, just make any post from February 4 onwards and if that post lands on the top spot of Google’s search results for the phrase pinoy money talk (3 words), then you win $75!

Who can join?

Anyone with a blog who can optimize it so that it becomes the top-ranked search result in Google.com.

How to start?

On your blog, simply create an article about Pinoy Money Talk, our Countdown to 3 Contest, or just about anything, but optimize it so that it becomes the top Google search result for the keywords “pinoy money talk”.

Of course, the article must contain at least one link back to our site (www.pinoymoneytalk.com) or to any page on the PinoyMoneyTalk.com domain.

There is NO limit on the number of articles you may make and submit but only articles posted on or after February 4, 2008 are valid.

Again, the keyword is “pinoy money talk” (3 words, all in lower case, no quotes).

How to submit a valid entry?

The winner will come only from valid entries we know. So submit your entry using either of these two ways:

a. Post a comment below mentioning the URL of your entry;

b. Link to this article or to the Countdown to 3 Contest article and if we see a trackback, that makes it a valid entry.

How to win?

If your blog article ranks the highest on the search results of Google.com on March 14, 9 p.m, you win! (Of course, PinoyMoneyTalk.com is excluded from this contest.)

We will regularly post updates on the leading sites. The winner will be announced on March 14 using a screenshot of the official search results.

What are the prizes?

The grand prize is $75 to be sent via Paypal or P3,000 to be deposited to your local bank account. We might throw in other freebies and prizes to the contestants so just watch out for it.

Ready? Then optimize your blog now for the keywords pinoy money talk!

Panliligaw Status Code Definitions

Last night, I was actually reading about Status Code Definitions on my Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages book reference at Starbucks before I went home. However, look at what I’ve found on my mailbox this early morning: Panliligaw Status Code Definitions!, created by tjmonsi, my classmate way back in high school. Coolness!

As you can see, it was almost a month after my last update here. So what’s keeping me from blogging here lately? Obviously, it’s my thesis!

This is it! Judgment day’s almost here! Stay tuned!