Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words
Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words
extisp.icio.us images displays a random Yahoo images search result for each of a user's tag words (excluding those which they've only ever used once). extisp.icio.us text gives you a random textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the numbe
extisp.icio.us images displays a random Yahoo images search result for each of a user's tag words (excluding those which they've only ever used once). extisp.icio.us text gives you a random textual scattering of a user's tags, sized according to the numbe
Firefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"
Although "tagging" is often promented as an alternative to organization by a hierarchy of categories, more and more online resources seem to use a hybrid system, where items are organized into broad categories, with finer classification distinctions being
Smarking is a social bookmarks manager. * Save all your bookmarks online, ready to be accessed everywhere * Learn more about your favourite arguments * Make some of your bookmarks public, private or visibles only to your friends * T
"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."
"Tagging in and of its self is a helpful step up from no tagging, but is no where near as beneficial as opening the tagging to all. Folksonomy tagging can provide connections across cultures and disciplines (...)"
"My guess is that federation across tag spaces will be accomplished by aggregators and search engines. When the subject is avian flu, they'll enable you to compare the resources cited by nonspecialists with those cited by various kinds of specialists (...
General Overview of tagging and folksonomies. Difference between controlled vocabularies, author and user tagging. Advantages and shortcomings of folksonomies