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FEUP Tags is a bookmark sharing service (like del.icio.us) made available by NEACM to students, teachers and employees of the faculty.

During the past semester’s exam season, having found several links to useful information and software on the Internet (like JFLAP) I began to wonder what would be the best way to share them with my fellow students. The service now called “FEUP Tags” was my answer.

FEUP Tags follows the recent launch of FEUP Blogs (which already has some interesting blogs like procself). Both projects clearly complement each other and are part of a more ambicious goal: to create an online community at FEUP - one that everyone will find a useful resource in their academic and/or professional life. Something that brings the people of the faculty “closer” in a way and makes it a better place to study at and work in.

It’s not an easy goal at all. Software alone can’t do it but I for one believe that the people want the faculty to be more than just “a place”.

That said, a lot of work remains. Both Blogs & Tags are far from finished projects. In particular Tags was done mostly over the past couple of weeks which were rather busy for me and the next three weeks will be even worse. Not to mention that I need to get another project (a more work related service that will be quite useful) out of the door before devoting any more of my time to Tags. On top of that there’s some chefax-related stuff that needs to be taken care off.

Funny enough, I haven’t even had the chance to put my own bookmarks there. I’ll do it this weekend.

I still need to see if the scuttle project wants any of the small modifications (read hacks) I made (which probably need to be slightly cleaned up). Filipe will probably submit his Portuguese translation to the scuttle project sometime in the near future I think.

The point is, there’s a lot to be done but there’s something out there now.