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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Re:Or the ... by DrSkwid · 2005-11-15 21:02 · Score: 0, Troll

wrong.

If you do a big mural you tag it with your name so people know who did it.

Then people got into skipping the part where they did the mural.

Getting your tag into the riskiest / most visible spot brings you kudos.

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