Sunday, December 11, 2005
Adopting web taxonomy with an ASP.NET 1.x tag cloud
I've got some time on my hands what with "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Sports Reporters" not coming on for a couple of hours, and my Christmas shopping all done thanks to Amazon's wish lists. So, I've got the rare opportunity these days to write some code. I'm developing a tag cloud in ASP.NET 1.x in C#, hooking it up to my site's search utility as a data source. Unlike some of the folksonomy apps out there, which are really cool, I won't be searching through RSS feeds, but graphically displaying the popular content being looked up.
I'm planning to develop a hierarchy of the terms center around the dominant search topic of the moment, with the less-popular terms being out on the fringte (see an example). I'm also going to attach a custom profanity filter to rule out displaying the offensive terms that will inevitably pop-up. As users lookup topics & articles in my news archive by keyword, they'll appear and remain resident for a period of time (pushed/popped from an array in the .NET Cache API).
It's just another way for my users to enjoy getting our news as we continue to make our interactives more social in function. I also haven't seen any tag clouds built in ASP.NET, so I figure I'd be the first.
I'm planning to develop a hierarchy of the terms center around the dominant search topic of the moment, with the less-popular terms being out on the fringte (see an example). I'm also going to attach a custom profanity filter to rule out displaying the offensive terms that will inevitably pop-up. As users lookup topics & articles in my news archive by keyword, they'll appear and remain resident for a period of time (pushed/popped from an array in the .NET Cache API).
It's just another way for my users to enjoy getting our news as we continue to make our interactives more social in function. I also haven't seen any tag clouds built in ASP.NET, so I figure I'd be the first.
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