Technorati is celebrating its first Tagiversary:

It was one year ago that we introduced Tags to Technorati, and what a year it's been! We're now tracking 4.6 million tags on over 75 million posts. Over half of all new posts are now tagged (using categories or rel links), which means they're easier to find and enjoy.

Tags have become an integral part of how blogging occurs. Of how people find information and how they disseminate it. The tag space is ever evolving, and yet has come far in a single year span for Technorati. It's amazing to think of tags as being a relatively 'new' concept.

Of course, what is a celebration of tags without improvements? Well, Technorati made a few nice upgrades. The tags homepage has a "hot tags" section:

Also new: language filtering, tag trend charts, and toggle features to customize your page.

The improvements show a number of things. The increased ability to follow topics by tags alone, and the ability to guage tag/search popularity. We can search Qumana and see the trends on our tag, which is an important metric that we can now use.

Happy Tagiversary to Technorati, and all the best for a productive new year in this very interesting space!

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