Average Joe More Tag-Savvy than Geeks

According to various estimates, there are approximately 500,000 words in the English Language. But creative Flickr users have found around 5 million words to describe their favorite images.

Technorati, Del.icio.us, Flickr and YouTube are the most popular Tag oriented sites in the Web 2.0 era. So we did a comparison of the count of tags that people use while posting and sharing content on these websites.

The results are very surprising: Photo Savvy users (that includes your gradma and 6yo daughter) are more Tag Savvy than their Tech Savvy or Video Savvy counterparts.

Here are the exact figures that came out during the tag study.

» Del.icio.us fans have bookmarked their favorite websites using 877,000 tags on Del.icio.us till now.

» Users on the Flickr photo sharing website have used 4.7 million tags to describe their pictures.

» 2.1 Million tags describe the millions of video clips upload on the Youtube video sharing website.

» Technorati users, who are definitely geekier than competition, are lazy while using tags. The billions of blog posts on Technorati has been categorized under just 403,000 tags.

The comparison graph above was created using the excellent ZohoSheet software. Yes, they do lovely Charts and Diagrams unlike Google Spreadsheets.

How to Download Contacts from Facebook To Outlook Address Book

Facebook users are not too pleased with the "walled garden" approach of Facebook. The reason is simple - while you can easily import your Outlook address book and GMail contacts into Facebook, the reverse path is closed. There's no "official" way to export your Facebook friends email addresses or contact phone numbers out as a CSV file so that you can sync the contacts data with Outlook, GMail or your BlackBerry. Some third-party Facebook hacks like "Facebook Sync" (for Mac) and "Facebook Downloader" (for Windows) did allow you to download your Facebook friends' names, emails, mobile phone number and profile photo to the desktop but they were quickly removed for violation of Facebook Terms of Use. How to Download Contacts from Facebook There are still some options to take Friends data outside the walls of Facebook wall. Facebook offers the Takeout option allowing you to download all Facebook data locally to the disk (include

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PhishTank Detects Phishing Websites by Digg Style Voting

OpenDNS, a free service that helps anyone surf the Internet faster with a simple DNS tweak , will announce PhishTank today. PhishTank is a free public database of phishing URLs where anyone can submit their phishes via email or through the website. The submissions are verified by the other community members who then vote for the suspected site. This is such a neat idea as sites can be categorized just based on user feedback without even having to manually verify each and every submission. PhishTank employs the "feedback loop" mechanism where users will be kept updated with the status' of the phish they submit either via email alerts or a personal RSS feed . Naturally, once the PhishTank databases grows, other sites can harness the data using open APIs which will remain free. OpenDNS would also use this data to improve their existing phishing detection algorithms which are already very impressive and efficient. PhishTank | PhishTank Blog [Thanks Allison] Related: Google

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