Amazon Tries Its Hand at Tagging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 15, 2005 @11:55AM from the not-with-spraypaint dept.

Kailash Nadh writes "Amazon has formed a 'tags team' and has begun using tags on some pages. The idea, apparently, is to slowly experiment with tags and to give users some power over how certain Amazon products - books, for example - are categorized." From the article: "Ultimately, this is interesting because it may well prove to be the most visible example of a company incorporating tags as a way to bring order to information. Outfits like Flickr are big and have tremendous followings, but nothing compared to Amazon's. And if Amazon can make a go of tagging, that may finally be the tipping point that makes the technology something every Tom, Dick and Harry knows about."

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Tags - old? by Old+Wolf · 2005-11-15 12:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I, for one, have been using tags in HTML for quite some time now. In fact, since the first HTML page I ever wrote, if memory serves me.
Tom's Harry Dick? by Sr.+Pato · 2005-11-15 14:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sorry, too much penguin mints.

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