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Timo TuominenKäytännön ohjeita taggauksen onnistumisesta
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Kathryn GreenhillThis is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interest
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This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.
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cvandervenBy Tim Spalding (Thingology, LibraryThing's ideas blog, February 2007)
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Fred DingledyComparison of the way books are tagged in amazon listings vs. LibraryThing listings; some theories as to why tagging on some sites works better than with others.
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Something is going on here—something with broad implications for tagging, classification and "Web 2.0" commerce. There are a couple of lessons, but the most important is this: Tagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to "someone else's" stuff. You can't get your customers to organize your products, unless you give them a very good incentive.
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Tags work best when they're about memory, so tagging makes the most sense when you have a lot of something to remember.
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you're putting your library in order
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tag something "anthropology" and you're connected to all the other anthropology buffs out there.
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Amazon is a store, not a personal library or even a club
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Amazon doesn't want you to hang out—they want you to buy!
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Users don't "own" their tags.
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Figure out why your customers would want to tag your stuff
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Make tagging as easy as possible
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Understand that commercial tagging can turn people off
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Make taggers feel like it's "their" thing. Encourage users to give out their tag URLs—people love to show off—and let them export their tags any way they want.
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Keep tagging social. Stop selling and start connecting.
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Put methods in place to fight spamming and tag-bombing
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Have logical URLs.
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16 Jun 07
Roland GesthuizenThis is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interest
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When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing
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Jill ONeillcomparison of communal activities in Librarything vs. Amazon
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Tagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to "someone else's" stuff. You can't get your customers to organize your products, unless you give them a very good incentive. We all make our beds, but nobody volunteers to fluff pillows at the local Sheraton.
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linde løverArticle about book tagging in Amazon and LibraryThing.
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Mike KossInteresting post on tagging systems; why they work well on LibraryThing, and poorly at Amazon. Takeaways: - People will tag, when it benefits themselves, but not if it only benefits others. - You need a critical mass of tags to be useful to community and
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Tom KrieglsteinHow to use tagging on the internet to be effective.
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Francois LamotteTagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to "someone else's" stuff. You can't get your customers to organize your products, unless you give them a very good incentive.
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Are HallandTagging fungerer bra for "eigne ting", men ikkje så bra for "andres ting" (Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog))
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Pru MitchellConclusion: Tagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to someone else's
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Piers YoungThe results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags. Explores why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon and makes some concrete recommendations
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Chris TagalotThis is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interest
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georgiakharperThis needs to go to my organizing and accessing class when I have a minute
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Andre MalheiroAmazon is a store, not a personal library or even a club. Organizing its data is as fun as straightening items at the supermarket. It's not your stuff and it's not your job.
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Pelle Sten"Tagging works well when people tag 'their' stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to 'someone else's' stuff. You can't get your customers to organize your products, unless you give them a very good incentive."
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ken .Lack-of tags on Amazon v LibraryThing: emergence of many views (not imposition of the-truth) but need quantity to get signal, clusters/patterns->consensus/trust, memory "members with under 50 books seldom tag", ordering "my" library (v your shop), value
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ilana foxThis is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interest
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Both LibraryThing and Amazon allow users to tag books. But with a tiny fraction of Amazon's traffic, LibraryThing appears to have accumulated *ten times* as many book tags as Amazon—13 million tags on LibraryThing to about 1.3 million on Amazon. (See below for the method I used to find this out.) Something is going on here—something with broad implications for tagging, classification and "Web 2.0" commerce. There are a couple of lessons, but the most important is this: Tagging works well when people tag "their" stuff, but it fails when they're asked to do it to "someone else's" stuff. You can't get your customers to organize your products, unless you give them a very good incentive. We all make our beds, but nobody volunteers to fluff pillows at the local Sheraton.
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SJLibrary Learning"This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interes
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Ratcatchergood complement to the Spalding interview in LJ
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