Off The Record With Debbie And Tony

The View From Both Sides Of The Pond

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Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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October 11
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Tony Payne is a freelance writer who lives on the South Coast of England with his wife Debbie. He has worked in the IT Industry all his life, and has been writing on various sites for the last 10 years. Tony has traveled extensively, both for business and leisure, and has lived in New Zealand and the USA as well as his native England. He enjoys writing about many different topics, often writing about something that grabs him impulsively at the time. Ancient History and Humor are just two diverse topics that he has a passion for, and he also likes to write about his travel experiences and to share his love of photography. Tony would love to write a book one day, but so far the closest that he has come to finding a topic is an autobiography. He is not confident that there is a large enough audience for a 12 volume book entitled "I Only Wanted A Simple Life".

JANUARY 20, 2009 11:16PM

Tagfoot - Social Bookmarking Redefined

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TagfootTagfoot is a brand new social bookmarking and networking site, and it's unique.    It's still in Beta at the moment and new members are only accepted via a referral link... This is your invitation to join Tagfoot and find out all about this great site.

From a description alone you might think that Tagfoot is just another site like Digg or Stumbleupon, but aside from being able to bookmark pages, there the similarity ends.  The whole interface and experience is something else.

With Tagfoot you can bookmark different types of items, including  news, photographs and videos.  There is even a facility to build your own wishlist (more about this later).  Maybe you would like to let the world know about your blog or website, your photographs, the latest funny video you found on You Tube, or a news headline .   This is the place to do it.

Right now Tagfoot is in Beta and closed to the public, but the Tagfoot banner below is our Special Invitation to you to sign up and give Tagfoot a try.   It's really nice to be able to join a site while it's in it's early stages, rather than when there are already millions of members, it give you an elite status or sorts.  

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You can share anything with other members.

Over time you can build up a list of friends on Tagfoot who have similar interests.  Members tag themselves to identify things that they are interested in, and when you bookmark an item you have the ability to share it with friends, either by name, or by specifying various tags.

Tagfoot is a wonderful online community made up of diverse, vibrant, fun and interesting people of all ages from all around the world. There's quite a following from Squidoo and Hubpages on there, plus from other social networking sites as well.

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This is the fun part...

Once items have been shared with other members, you can comment on them and rate them. We have some fantastic, side splitting conversations as well as more serious ones too. The more you interact with others on Tagfoot, the more you will gain from it. It's not just about promoting your own stuff. It's also about helping out others.

If you like an item that someone has shared, you can opt to give it a Foot-Up, which tells the person who bookmarked it that you like this type of item.  You can also foot comments on items up or down.   The more you bookmark, share, comment on or foot up, the higher your footing.  The Tagfoot home page shows you your rank or footing and it's fun to rise up the charts as you find more things of interest to comment on.

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Now, here's the clever part...

badge_profootIf you have a Google Adsense account or an Amazon affiliate account, you can earn money on Tagfoot.

Add at least ten items each to your bookmarks, news, videos and wishlist, and you can then apply to 'Support' to have your Google Adsense account linked into your Tagfoot account. Adsense adverts are displayed on every page, and a percentage of these will be for your account.  So the more interesting and diverse your bookmarks, the higher the chance of you earning something from the clickouts.

At the moment, the earnings are fairly low, however once Tagfoot goes 'Live' you should expect the money to come rolling in.  Once you have qualified to earn revenue, you will receive a nice shiny badge saying 'Profoot' on your member page.

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And there is more to come...

If you have an Amazon account, you can add items from Amazon to your Wishlist and tag them.  There is a Widget that you can configure to select Wishlist items that match given tags, and you can display these items on your web page or blog using the Widget.  This will drive people to Tagfoot and if they buy - well I think you get the picture.  You can see an example of the Tagfoot Widget at the top right of this page.

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Do you Twitter?

badge_twitfootTwitter is rapidly becoming the site to be on, with millions of tweets being sent out daily.  There is an interface from Tagfoot to Twitter so that having bookmarked a page, shared a page or footed an item, you can opt to have a notification sent to your Twitter account.  Cool eh...  Add Twitter to your Tagfoot account and you get a shiny Twitfoot badge.

Tagfoot is spam free

There's no spam on Tagfoot, or at least if someone attempts to spam it's soon discovered and reported. You decide who to accept on your friends list and if they get too heavy with the shares they send you, you have a variety of options to control what you receive.   Tagfoot has it's own police force, a select group of elite members called Bigfeet, who constantly monitor postings to ensure that everything is running smoothly and that nobody abuses the system, either by posting spam or illegal material, or by oversharing their posts.  Guess what?  If you achieve the elite status of Bigfoot, you get another shiny badge on your profile.

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So what do you think?

Hopefully this description of Tagfoot has got you curious.  Even better by now if your curiosity has got so aroused you already clicked on a link and checked it out.  If by this time you are still not sure about Tagfoot, all I can say is that both of us have been members for a few months and we wholeheartedly endorse it.  We have learned a lot, laughed a lot, and met a lot of great new people.  So what are you waiting for?

I hope that you will take a look at Tagfoot, sign up and become a participating member.  Certainly if you have your own websites or blogs, this is a great place to give them more exposure to the world.  We would love to hear from you to know what you think, so please leave us a comment if you have anything to say, or indeed if you have any questions we can answer for you.

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My head is spinning...I have trouble enough keeping up just here at OS. But sounds intriguing! I'll be back when my head clears (which may be awhile).... :-(
Tagfoot is really a great place to get that extra traffic you have been looking for, plus the community there is really great, ideal for making new friends and adding to your fan club.