3pointD.com reports on emerging 3D connectivity, the metaverse, virtual worlds like Second Life, Google Earth, concepts like folksonomy, and the culture of online worlds.
3pointD.com reports on emerging 3D connectivity, the metaverse, virtual worlds like Second Life, Google Earth, concepts like folksonomy, and the culture of online worlds.
"tagging eliminates the decision - (choosing the right category), and takes away the analysis-paralysis stage (...) it provides immediate self and social feedback (...) it taps into an existing cognitive process without adding add much cognitive cost"
Let's explore how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular...From my first encounter with tagging (on systems such as del.icio.us & flickr), I could feel how easy it was to tag. But it took me a while to understand the cognitive processes at w
Let's explore how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular...From my first encounter with tagging (on systems such as del.icio.us & flickr), I could feel how easy it was to tag. But it took me a while to understand the cognitive processes at w
"Tagging works because it strikes a balance between the individual and social. It serves the individual motive of remembering, and forms a ad-hoc social groups around it."
Online reference managers are extraordinary productivity tools, but it would be a mistake to take this as their primary interest for the academic community. As it is often the case for social software services, online reference managers are becoming power
"Could the order of tags be a general solution for hierarchical tagging? It would be similar to relations between words within sentences or to the order of folders in a directory and without enforcing a structure."
People have been trying to classify and organize information for thousands of years. There are many examples of cataloged items in ancient repositories, including items in the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Taxonomy arose as an attempt to organize inform
Stefanie Panke und Birgit Gaiser stellten die Ergebnisse ihrer Untersuchung «With my head up in the clouds – social tagging aus Nutzersicht» vor. Sie haben sowohl eine Literatursichtung als auch Experteninterviews gemacht.