TagWorld
TagWorld is an Internet start-up competing directly with MySpace. It advertises greater customization than MySpace, and tagging support for most of its content. Tagworld has a feature of being able to upload 1 GB of music, pictures and videos to the site for later playback from anywhere with an internet connection.
Some other features include blogging, uploading pictures and videos, and seeing who has viewed a users page.
The web site launched November 2005. By May 2006, it had 1.6 million registered users, and by June 2006, it had passed the 2m users mark.
TagWorld is made mostly by using Web 2.0 and Ajax techniques.
TagWorld is a privately held company based in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in July 2005.
Major Features
TagWorld is a blogging website similar to MySpace. As such it includes standard features:
- Profile
- Friend list
- Blogs
- Vidoes
- Photos
- Music Playlists
- Music discovery engine - allows users to open a 'radio station' playing similar songs without advert.
- Comments (supporting video comments)
- Tagging
- Customized color scheme and formatting
- RSS/Subscriptions - TagWorld friends are automatically subscribed to your blog
- Real-time messaging with video and audio support
Furthermore, TagWorld also includes some features not present or different to competitors:
Widgets
Special features (usually Flash-based) that can be easily customized and imported from TagWorldWidgets.com (an official site) directly into TagWorld, or unofficial fan-based sites using HTML codes. Examples of widgets include:
- clocks
- horoscopes/compatibility
- games
- notes
- video profiles
- graphics/animations for comments
- customized mouse pointers (not supported in Firefox)
- ready-made site designs (just enter the details for your requested color scheme and it is automatically created, and displayed as a HTML code that can be added)
- "[...] Trains" - automatic/faster ways to add friends, either on bulk or without viewing profiles/clicking "add as friend"
Other features
- Multi-page website
- Modules can be dragged-and-dropped and edited
- Rich-Text and HTML editing everywhere (except comments, which allow HTML) - means the text formatting can be changed using drop-down menus, so users do not need to understand HTML or BBcode.
- Large animated smileys
- One-click 'voting' for each blog post/multimedia item (picture/audio/video)
- Sort lists of users/posts/multimedia by date and popularity
- Video profiles
- Video comments
- Bulletins - quick messages to all friends at once that don't get emailled or sent to inboxes (displayed on Home Page)
- Now it also has a chatting service where you can chat using your webcam, speaker and of course the keyboard.
See also
- List of social networking websites