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05 Nov 05
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Less-savvy users may simply leave the space s in their tags, unintentionally causing them to be categorized into individual tags like “sims” and “interactive.” If you wanted to find pictures of Cameron “Sexiest Man in Web Design” Moll, you’d have to search for cameronmoll, cameron_moll, cameron+moll, cameron-moll, and a variety of other things. No single convention has been developed for dealing with these situations, and even if there were one, enforcing it goes against the fundamental concept of a folksonomy (that it’s intuitive and made up by individual users). Programmers and developers are accustomed to oddball text separators, but the general public isn’t. As these services become increasingly widespread, more people are going to be puzzled about the odd symbols in the middle of otherwise logical phrases. It makes future search engine parsing more difficult. I could search for “SXSW Interactive 2005” and never find content tagged as “sxsw_interactive_2005” due to the differing ways in which search engines parse punctuation and white space .
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26 May 05
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25 May 05
S JonesArgues for commas as tag delimiters so multi-word tags make sense
tags taxonomy folksonomy bookmarking social.softwae _delicious
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11 May 05
Matthew WeymarAdvocates commas as opposed to spaces as the delimiter of choice in tagging systems
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04 May 05
Jason GThis is a question that has gnawed at my soul for months. I’ve sent e-mails to a variety of prominent people who could answer the question, but I haven’t received any responses. Maybe they think I’m a nut.
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