Articles in the Folksonomy Category
Folksonomy, Yahoo »
Yahoo launched a beta version of MyWeb 2.0 which integrates personalized searching with tagging and social bookmarking. From SearchEngineWatch:
With the release of MyWeb 2.0, Yahoo has added an extensive array of new features focused on community-based searching and sharing of information. “It basically enables people to tap into each other’s personal web by searching their trust network of friends,” said Eckart Walther, vice president, product management, Yahoo.
A major component of MyWeb 2.0 is the addition of “tagging,” the ability to add descriptive keywords and annotations to pages you save. If …
Folksonomy »
The growth of tagging (also referred to as social bookmarking or folksonomy) has received increased media attention recently. CNN claims tagging “could be our salvation as we attempt to sift through the growing clutter of data we’re amassing on our hard drives and on that growing digital repository that is the Internet.”
To help guide our understanding of tagging, Clay Shirky has posted a summary of two talks he recently gave on tagging, titled “Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags.” It’s definitely worth a read.
Tagging is beginning to play …
