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TagWorld is an Internet start-up competing directly with MySpace. It advertises greater customization than MySpace, and tagging support for most of its content. Tagworld has a notable feature of being able to upload 1 GB of music, pictures and videos to the site for later playback from anywhere with an internet connection.

Some other features include blogging, uploading pictures and videos, and seeing who has viewed a users page.

The web site launched November 2005. By May 2006, it had 1.6 million registered users, and by June 2006, it had passed the 2m users mark.

TagWorld is made mostly by using Web 2.0 and Ajax techniques. It features a very 'easy-to-use' interface that simplifies the operations involved in customisation.

TagWorld is a privately held company based in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in July 2005.

Contents 1 Features 1.1 Music discovery engine 1.2 Video chat 1.3 Tags 1.4 Widgets 1.5 Other notable website features 2 Press releases and acclaim 2.1 November 2005 2.2 December 2006 2.3 January 2006 2.4 February 2006 2.5 March 2006 2.6 April 2006 2.7 May 2006 2.8 June 2006 2.9 July 2006 3 See also 4 External links

TagWorld is a blogging website similar to MySpace. As such it includes standard features:

• Blogging
• 'Friends' list
• Music list - NOTE in TagWorld, music tracks are stored on TagWorld and can be played back as playlists
• Profile - NOTE Video Profile is now available in TagWorld
• Photos
• Customised colourscheme and formatting
• Comments - NOTE Video Comments are now available in TagWorld
• RSS/Subscriptions - TagWorld friends are automatically subscribed to your blog

However, TagWorld also includes some features not present or different to competitors:

Similar to Yahoo LaunchCAST, this allows users to open a 'radio station' playing similar songs without adverts or interruption.

TagWorld has released an IM client that allows real-time messaging with friends, either using text or with webcams and microphones. The software is still in BETA, but the site owners advertise that soon users will be able to IM without having the client open or installed. This so far seems limited to IM'ing users who DO have the client running.

This is specific to TagWorld users, and so far the program is limited to these features - as well as changing the colour of text and adding smilies - so there is no real competition with MSN (Windows Live Messenger) or Yahoo Messenger.

MySpace, TagWorld's main rivals, recently released MySpaceIM, a standalone client similar to TagWorld Video Chat, but with MSN Messenger's 'Winks' (here called Zaps) replacing webcam functionality.

Tags are labels applied to pictures, audio, video and posts to help searching.

Special features (usually Flash-based) that can be easily customized and imported from TagWorldWidgets.com (an official site) directly into TagWorld, or unofficial fan-based sites using HTML codes. Examples of widgets include:

• clocks
• horoscopes/compatibility
• games
• notes
• video profiles
• graphics/animations for comments ("thanks for the add")
• customized mouse pointers (not supported in FireFox)
• ready-made site designs (just enter the details for your requested color scheme and it is automatically created, and displayed as a HTML code that can be added)
• "Whore Trains" - automatic/faster ways to add friends, either on bulk or without viewing profiles/clicking "add as friend"

• Multi-page website
• Modules can be dragged-and-dropped and edited
• Rich-Text and HTML editing everywhere (except comments, which allow HTML) - means the text formatting can be changed using drop-down menus, so users do not need to understand HTML or BBcode.
• Large animated smileys
• One-click 'voting' for each blog post/multimedia item (picture/audio/video)
• Sort lists of users/posts/multimedia by date and popularity
• Video profiles
• Video comments
• Bulletins - quick messages to all friends at once that don't get emailled or sent to inboxes (displayed on Home Page)
• Now it also has a chatting service where you can chat using your webcam, speaker and of course the keyboard.

• Online life made easy
• Technewsworld.com
• Tag Your World
• TagWorld helps build the social web
• Everything Tagged In TagWorld
• TagWorld beta
• A profile of TagWorld
• Tagging the immigrants

Please see TagWorld |Press Releases for a full list of articles.

• TagWorld does video too
• tagWorld adds video sharing
• Social networking site adds video to portfolio
• TagWorld adds video to content warehouse

• TagWorld goes commerce

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• TagWorld partners with Universal Music Group to deliver Music Videos
• TagWorld hits 1 million users, launches Music Discovery tool

Please see TagWorld |Press Releases for a full list of articles.

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