Tags and Headlines – Cheating on Topics?

Just a couple of weeks ago I was trying to set things straight in the rather troublesome relationship between tags and topics. The bottom line was that tags are just the same words we use in the content and are hence just as arbitrary and hard to generalize as the content itself. No perfect [...]

Content is King. Or should I say Tyrant?

Since the birth of the Internet, we are being told that in order to build a successful web site, one maxim has to be strictly followed: “Content is King”. It doesn’t matter, what the site is about or who is the target audience, if it doesn’t have any content, well, then it’s just some [...]

What People Say When They T..alk

This is a challenging question that comes up all the time in our everyday life. This includes anything from the “normal” face-to-face communication when two people meet on the street to blog entries and instant messages or tweets on the Web. As a matter of fact, this is the main topic of a great [...]

Tags and Topics – Yin and Yang or a Dysfunctional Marriage?

I think I don’t have to explain to anyone what tags are, or? But to make sure, Wikipedia states that tags allow anyone on the Web to annotate and categorize content and then roam around and discover similarly tagged content. Sounds like a blast to a lot of people, all one has to do [...]

Welcome to Topify!

Hello and welcome to the official blog of Topify!
What is Topify you ask? No? Well, we’ll tell you anyway. Topify is a project aiming to extract and provide you with the intrinsic subject for all those news articles and blog posts that appear en masse everyday on the Web. This problem occurred to me [...]