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I've been playing around for a bit with Jiglu tonight.

Jiglu's tagline is 'Tags that think', and that's exactly what it does: it automatically tags your content and displays tags as cross-referenced links.

All you have to do is register your URL, install some code (I used a ready-made WordPress plugin, but there are versions for Blogger, Typepad and other platforms), and Jiglu analyses your content, subtly underlines people and events with a faint dotted line and makes them clickable. You can choose to include links too, but I find the outcome a bit confusing for the end-user.

Say for example I mentioned Jamie Oliver in a post. Jaiku overlays a link on the text 'Jamie Oliver', and the link takes you to a list of articles in my website that mention Jamie Oliver.

I have installed it twenty minutes ago and the list of people is growing and growing. A great way to offer content aggregation with absolutely no effort whatsoever from neither the content producer (no manual tagging, no building of topic pages) nor the website user (no need to search, links are presented organically and maps overlay the content).

As with all automated tagging systems, I can already foresee some limitations (it is a text-based tool after all) and it would be great if it could be co-managed manually (perhaps as a paying feature?) but I already like very much the potential it has to enrich and integrate content.

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