
A tag cloud on the popular photo sharing site Flickr.
The first widely known tag cloud appeared on Flickr[1], the photo sharing site. That implementation was based on Jim Flanagan's Search Referral Zeitgeist, a visualization of web site referrers. Tag clouds have also been popularised by Technorati[2], among others.
The first published appearance of a tag cloud can be attributed to the "subconcious files" in Douglas Coupland's Microserfs (1995).
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- del.icio.us - cloud of users' most popular words tagging web pages
- Technorati - most popular tags of blogs
- Flickr - most popular tags of photos
- zeitcode_doc - Archive of Jim Flanagan's Zeitgeist.pm module and documentation.
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