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TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword. Previously the only way to get TagCloud feeds to display on your website, etc. was to include a bit of javascript (as an include) in your page. Which meant you have almost no control outside of CSS on how that data was presented. It worked, it just wasn't as flexible as some might like. Now, you're able to get at any particular feed using XML as your data source! Part of the reason I used Flash to render my XML data was the fact that I couldn't supply a target for the links coming out of the javascript fetch. So if I had access to all the data myself, I could ... (more)