TechCrunch Thinks Deep Tagging is the Future

A recent post on TechCrunch focused on the concept and innovation in the area of deep tagging. The idea of deep tagging is that you don't just tag a file itself, you tag within a file - for example, you tag a clip within a video file. In fact, I can't think of any application besides video or podcasts that would use deep tagging (can you?). Back in August, I touched on this with regards to what Veotag and Google Video are doing, but the TechCrunch post mentioned several other companies.

I agree -- deep tagging may be the next step in tagging; however, what's different about "deep" tagging versus "regular" tagging is that, for the most part, content that gets "deep tagged" is tagged by the content publisher or producer - not by users/viewers. Do podcasters have time to deep tag? Will "tagger" be a new job description? (These were questions posed by the comments of the post.) I think that deep tagging will really take hold when software or a service arrives that makes it easy to do so. I'm sure that there are several options now, but none has critical mass. I wonder who will end up on top of the deep tagging heap?