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Alright, so there's been some confusion and drama and at least one confused old man stymied by the concept of tagging on newsvine. We have, apparently, several factions here and a few key disagreements about how tagging should work.
List of hated Internet words includes "Blog"The Agence France Presse (AFP) reports that blog, netiquette, cookie, and wiki have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to a poll done by YouGov. On top of the list is folksonomy, a term for web classification system.
The ten most hated words on the InternetThe Internet has much to answer for, but one of its chiefest sins its relentless stupifidication of the English language. And no, I did not just make up the word "stupifidication."1
Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than TaxonomyFrom the article: While at the WWW Conference in Banff for the Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop and was chatting with Jennifer Trant about folksonomies validating and identifying gaps in taxonomy.
Folksonomy Reveals an Emergent PatternIs tagging and labeling on sites such as Flickr and Del.icio.us emergent or is it designed? How much influence do the "prime movers" influence the tags or is it all just a pattern we recognize just after the fact?
Web Strategy: Using Folksonomies to improve your Marketing, Website, and even Search Engine Optimization (SEO)It's up to you to determine if you think this is "snake oil" or not, but I see the value. A good web strategist should try to understand his community, listen very carefully and respond. This post is really focused on Folksonomies or natural language and tagging.
Tagging content using ScriptaculousIn-place-editing is a way of being able to click on an element and have it change into a form on the fly with the ability to save your changes there and then.
Web 2.0 is folksonomy - what we know as tags. Folksonomy is "an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links.
1. Self-training of programs, services and environments. 2. Generation of a free time, and not the reverse. 3. Convenient coherence. 4. Intuition of programs and services, predictability. 5. Giving some tools to the information units for their independent promotion to the user.
An attempt to tag and link to all the files available in the InternetThis anonymous upload site, apart from allowing users to upload and tag files, also allows users to post link to files found anywhere in the web.
"We are discovering that traditional knowledge hierarchies that have served us so well are unnecessarily restricted when it comes to organizing information in the digital world.
Microsoft licenses new way to make friendsA San Francisco start-up is making friends with Microsoft to create the next great thing in social networking.
eConsultant » Blog Archive » Top Web 2.0 Sites Alphabetical ListList of online Web2 applications for bookmarking, start pages, blogging, to do lists, calendars ...............
" Taggin' is rubbish (sometimes)." Definitely there are really unusable, non-informative tags.
Tagging is folksonomy but folksonomy is not tagging !A nice summary on folksonomies.
Web 2.0: A Pattern LibraryIn this exploration of the many trends powering the new web paradigm, Tim Ziegler separates the progressive ideas from the hype.
New forum system thats nearing the end of development, vennt has completely got rid of top level categories and has put the user in control of the discussions.
EirePreneur: How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Webvery engaging and interesting observation about tagging/folksonomy
Yesterday evening I attended a presentation by Thomas Vander Wal, who invented the term folksonomy, on the "Come to Me Web" at the DC Future Salon in Bethesda, MD.
Collaborative tagging: how networking sites connect people by interests and goals - KnowledgeBoardI must say I have tried about 90% of the tools mentioned in this article and still feel that they are not enough.
For the minions who use the internet and are unfamiliar with the concept of tagging, tags are words that are assigned to the webpage or an object of interest.
WordWorks » In search of the perfect Tag CloudThere is no denying the fact that more and more people are taking to the net these days and with all these tags flying around their usability is a central tenet that would determine the longevity of the idea.
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