Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 4, 2005 @12:52AM from the power-to-the-personages dept.

Ian@falsepositives.com writes "Lots of discussion going on about 'folksonomies' -- bottom-up taxonomies that people create on their own -- as used in Del.icio.us and Flickr: Adam Mathes has a thesis on Folksonomies; 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. Joho the Blog notices a discussion about what to call it in Mob indexing? Folk categorization? Social tagging?, and 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. Tag, you're it!"

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Wha.thef.uck?! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-04 00:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Wha.thef.uk
What the hell is this about? by Loco3KGT · 2005-01-04 01:11 · Score: 5, Funny

This is the first slashdot blurb I've ever read that left me feeling like I had no f'n clue what they're talking about. It was like reading the mental vomit of an ADD kid.

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