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Adam Crowe"There's a good reason Yahoo is taking tagging seriously. The trend represents a new approach to organizing and finding information online, and industry watchers expect it to draw people away from the traditional Net search"
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APRIL 11, 2005 022 Editions: N. America | Europe | Asia | Edition Preference STORY TOOLS Printer-Friendly Version E-Mail This Story Graphic: Tagging 101 022 Find More Stories Like This INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off The time-saving trend of "tagging" is luring legions of Web surfers -- and Yahoo! Joshua Schachter used to be a lot like the rest of us online. When he surfed the Web, he'd zip through interesting articles only to find that days later he couldn't remember where he had seen the stories or sites that had caught his interest. Unlike most of us, though, the 30-year-old New Yorker is a software programmer -- so he did something about this lapse in memory. A little over two years ago, Schachter created a program that let him tag Web links using words he would remember and then store them for easy access. So when Schachter saw a story about, say, the music videos of Icelandic singer Bjork, he would slap a "music" tag on it and file it away.
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Elizabeth PerryBusiness Week talks about tagging as the new thing to know about.
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At the end of 2003, Schachter opened a Web site, del.icio.us, to let anyone use the technology. With del.icio.us, people are able to tag any link they choose for easy retrieval later. What makes tags more powerful than a Web bookmark is that they can be shared easily with other people. If someone tags a story on Iraq, for example, that link is added to a list on del.icio.us of other Iraq content. Anyone on the service who wants to read about Iraq can then find a list of stories that have been tagged and see who tagged them. Today more than 85,000 people are using the free service. "Tagging is about the most important tool of last year," says Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Indeed, the practice is catching on fast. The blog index Technorati Inc. and corporate portal developer Plumtree Software Inc. (PLUM ) are adopting the technology. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN ) announced in February an investment in tagging startup 43 Things. And in March, Net giant Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO ) paid an undisclosed sum for Flickr, a year-old photo-sharing service that attributes its success in luring 420,000 subscribers to its use of tagging. While Yahoo won't discuss specific plans, it's expected to sprinkle tagging throughout its Web properties. "I hope [Flickr's co-founders] become part of our vanguard to help us as we venture boldly and somewhat blindly into this [new world]," says Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo. There's a good reason Yahoo is taking tagging seriously. The trend represents a new approach to organizing and finding information online, and industry watchers expect it to draw people away from the traditional Net search offered by Yahoo and Google Inc. (GOOG ). Tagging won't replace Google et al. But people may turn to tags more frequently over time, reducing their use of established search engines.
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At the end of 2003, Schachter opened a Web site, del.icio.us, to let anyone use the technology. With del.icio.us, people are able to tag any link they choose for easy retrieval later. What makes tags more powerful than a Web bookmark is that they can be shared easily with other people. If someone tags a story on Iraq, for example, that link is added to a list on del.icio.us of other Iraq content. Anyone on the service who wants to read about Iraq can then find a list of stories that have been tagged and see who tagged them. Today more than 85,000 people are using the free service. "Tagging is about the most important tool of last year," says Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Indeed, the practice is catching on fast. The blog index Technorati Inc. and corporate portal developer Plumtree Software Inc. (PLUM ) are adopting the technology. Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN ) announced in February an investment in tagging startup 43 Things. And in March, Net giant Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO ) paid an undisclosed sum for Flickr, a year-old photo-sharing service that attributes its success in luring 420,000 subscribers to its use of tagging. While Yahoo won't discuss specific plans, it's expected to sprinkle tagging throughout its Web properties. "I hope [Flickr's co-founders] become part of our vanguard to help us as we venture boldly and somewhat blindly into this [new world]," says Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo. There's a good reason Yahoo is taking tagging seriously. The trend represents a new approach to organizing and finding information online, and industry watchers expect it to draw people away from the traditional Net search offered by Yahoo and Google Inc. (GOOG ). Tagging won't replace Google et al. But people may turn to tags more frequently over time, reducing their use of established search engines.
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Thomas Vander WalThis Business Week article gets folksonomy backwards and really misses the point
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Amy Gahran"Search engines ...have a glaring drawback: No matter how many pages they index or how quickly they bring back results, they can't put those results into context."
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