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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content

Sunday, September 17, 2006

In Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content, Joshua Porter (User Interface Engineering) compares taxonomies—“they are very expensive to create and maintain...may fail to reflect the language of users”—to folksonomies. Porter writes: “One of the most ...

Filed under: Folksonomy : Taxonomy : Web Content Management

Tag! You’re It : Google Image Labeler

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Google Image Labeler, a “new feature of Google Image Search, allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google’s image search results.” Google Image Labeler addresses one of the biggest problems with social tagging folksonomies—the fact that we ...

Filed under: Folksonomy : Metadata : Taxonomy

Managing Bookmarks the Web 2.0 Way: Introducing del.icio.us

Sunday, July 16, 2006

If you’ve yet to discover the power of social bookmarking, check out this introduction to del.icio.us from The Rockley Bulletin. del.icio.us is a free, web-based service that makes organizing Internet bookmarks easy and more useful than ordinary browser bookmarks. Try ...

Filed under: Folksonomy

NewsZingo: Google News In Clouds

Monday, January 16, 2006

It all started with this little January 5, 2006 post based on the concept of tree maps. Since then, Newzingo has become a popular—and useful—online destination.

Thursday, January 05, 2006 - Newzingo!
Newzingo - Automatically tagging Google news and displaying the ...

Filed under: Folksonomy : Metadata

CM Pros Introduces “Folksonomy”

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Folksonomy is a term invented by Thomas Vander Wal to describe collaborative categorization using a community tool for developing a controlled vocabulary of metadata tags. Content Management Professionals recently intoduced the idea of using a folksonomy to help better ...

Filed under: Folksonomy