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Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. What the??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was the single most incoherent paragraph I have read in awhile. I'm afraid to RTFA because it'll probably result in me contracting brain cancer somehow.

  2. Wha.thef.uck?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wha.thef.uk

  3. wtf?!? by marcushnk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I must need more sleep.. that looked like complete gibberish to me.

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  4. What is Del.icio.us and Flickr? by joebetoblame · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  5. What the hell is this about? by Loco3KGT · · 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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