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Flickr, del.icio.us, and Technorati tags. GMail labels. WordPress categories. I think the future of operating systems and file storage is with this method, hereby known as TLC (tags/labels/categories). The major advantage of this method of organization is that a user doesn't need to store a file is just one folder. Many different labels can apply to a single file. For example, let's say I have some financial information stored in some Excel files. Instead of organizing my files like this: c:DocumentsPersonalFinance and c:DocumentsWorkFinance, I can just assign tags to the files such as personal, work, finance, excel, etc. Now when I'm looking for my financial files, I can opt to show all files with the "finance" tag. This would show all my financial files, both personal and work-related. Or maybe I want to keep personal and work separate, so I only show files with the tags "finance" and "personal".
My prediction is that the next major advance in operating systems and/or file storage will be with this. And I have a feeling Google will come up with it. #technology |
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