Technorati Tags: three great services on one page

Technorati has unveiled a new "tags" service that is one of the most exciting things I've seen all month. Technorati Tags are like Del.icio.us Tags and Flickr Tags -- they're keywords you assign to your stuff. If you tag a Del.icio.us link with "Toronto" and I tag a link with "Toronto," Del.icio.us will figure out that we're both talking about the same thing and feed both links to anyone who's searching for new links about Toronto. Likewise with Flickr: upload a photo and tag it "spider" and it will be returned along with all the other spider pix in the system when a searcher asks for the "spider" tag.

Technorati Tags are keywords that map to category names, keywords, and other cues in blog posts. When you bring up a Technorati Tag for "computers," you get all relevant blog posts that Technorati knows about, presented on a page with relevant Del.icio.us links and relevant Flickr images. Technorati Tags blend three different Internet services and three services' worth of tags to tease meaning out of the ether. Brilliant.

The photos come from our friends at Flickr. Flickr is a great photo sharing community. If you'd like your photos to appear on our tag pages, join Flickr and post your photos there. And remember to tag 'em!

The links come from the nice folks at Del.icio.us. Del.icio.us is a web-based bookmarks manager. If you'd like to contribute links to Technorati Tag pages, you can join Del.icio.us, post and tag some links.

The rest of the Technorati Tag pages is made up of blog posts. And those come from you! Anyone with a blog can contribute to Technorati Tag pages. (Don't have a blog? Give TypePad a try!) There are two ways to contribute:

* If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), just use the included category system and make sure you're publishing RSS/Atom and we'll automatically include your posts! Your categories will be read as tags.

* If your blog software does not support those things, don't worry, you can still play. To add your post to a Technorati Tag page, all you have to do is "tag" your post by including a special link.

Link (Disclaimer: I am an advisor to Technorati)