Washington grad to launch new social media site
Published 7:02 pm Friday, June 20, 2014
A 2006 graduate of Washington High School, Jordan Floyd is releasing a new social media website to the world Monday.
Tagshare, which Floyd began Beta testing on April 6 started with a simple welcome to his site. Currently, nearly 30 active users have signed up to the website, which are mostly family and friends.
This is not the first website he has developed however. While he was in high school, Floyd began making websites for people locally. He then branched out to make smart phone Apps for local companies.
According to Floyd, Tagshare is a mix between Facebook and Twitter, but the site categorizes and filters socially-shared content. The information presented to each user is only relevant to their respective interests.
With Tagshare, users can share status updates, photos, links to other websites, along with being able to connect with other users and keep up with what they share.
“You don’t necessarily have to have an account to use the website and Tagshare approaches it from a couple of different angles. I think it is going to be really cool,” Floyd said.
The difference between Tagshare and other social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter is that the site caters to each user’s interests: only content they want to see will appear.
“Normally with Facebook you get everything. It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in it or not,” Floyd said. “Tagshare is different. You set up what your interests are and the other items are filtered based on your interest list.”
Floyd said his website isn’t going to be information overload, but information that is relevant to the user, unlike Facebook.
“Facebook is a service to be about the person, and Tagshare is about the content,” Floyd said. “Tagshare is about how the information is useful to others. It’s similar, but different.”
Tagshare will wrap up Beta testing this weekend, but already, anyone can sign up to join.
“It’s not the full version yet, and I have some things to add over the weekend,” Floyd said. “Monday is my big launch date.”