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Although not very good itself, the article gives a lot of good references. For a more in-depth analysis of social bookmarking I would recommend a very interesting article entitled Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata and written by Adam Mathes.

Although not very good itself, the article gives a lot of good references. For a more in-depth analysis of social bookmarking I would recommend a very interesting article entitled Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata and written by Adam Mathes.

Folksonomies (the first meme of 2005?) is attributed by Wikipedia to Thomas Vander Wa.

Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies which examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services - Del.icio.us and Flickr - designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.

IFTF's Future Now makes a point about problems with folksonomies: no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us); no hierarchy and content types; and only simple one-word tags. Are these features or bugs? Consensuss says 'feature'. Andrew Ducker has a suggestion for synonyms and a modest proposal

Joho the Blog notices a discussion about what to call it in Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?,
John Battelle links into Taggle and "federated tagging".

I wonder if a Google Suggest like system might reduce 'lazy tagging' ,and maybe synonym control when the federation appears.

New: In Beyond Laser Tag and Telephone Tag, JC Francois wonders if "2005 will be the year of tagging".

Will Folksonomies lead to the nirvana of the Semantic Web, or at least Semantic web light? (see : ftrain.com August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web)

Tag, you're still it!"

Theres pluses and minuses with each approach. Have a read of the folksonomies article which once you get to the core was not to dificult to understand.

I didn't know either so I looked it up

...more info at http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediat ed-communication/folksonomies.html

Del.icio.us http://de.licio.us/ henceforth referred to as "Delicious") is a tool to organize web pages. A description online states it is: "a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others" (Schachter, 2004)

Flickr http://www.flickr.com/, a photo management and sharing web application, has a similar system of free-form tagging for photos that was adopted and modeled after Delicious. It too requires users to create a user account, and is free to join.

this list included much of what one might expect as common subjects of photos: cat, friends, dog sky, sea, park, kids, garden, baby, building, flower, flowers signs, sculpture, city, vacation.

From the folksonomy thing. What's a "dog sky"?

It's called a "Google bomb" and was invented as a joke by Adam Mathes back in April of 2001; while the miserable failure bomb was started by George Johnston in October of 2003. It works by having a lot of people with a presence on the web (web pages, blogs, journals, anything that Google might index) create a link to a specific site, like this: idiotic thieves. Since Google ranks search results by the number of links that point to them, you could catapult a specific page to the number one search result for a specific search string. Like those idiotic thieves. The caveat is this: what you were talking about, with a spoof page getting higher results than those idiotic thieves actual page wouldn't work because, while Google apparently considers the miserable failure type of Google bomb to be a type of valid free speech, attempts to hijack another company's web presence by making the top result for "SCO" become an anti-SCO page would (probably) be stopped.