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18 Apr 08

How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It - Faceboogle - Google vs. Facebook - Popular Mechanics

The larger the Web grows, the more important search becomes, right? That’s probably so, and as a note of clarification, he changed his statement slightly to say, “Search, as we know it, is dead.” What he means is that, with the rise of social networking s

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10 Jan 08

fluidinfo: Tagging in the year 3000 (BC)

  • This is an interesting comparison and discussion of tagging.

    "Jimmy Guterman recently called Marcel Proust an Alpha Geek and asked for thoughts on “what from 100 years ago might be the hot new technology of 2008?”

    Here’s something about 5000 years older. As a bonus there’s a deep connection with what Fluidinfo is doing."

     - bmevans on 2008-01-10
01 Aug 07

Blue Dot is not just another social bookmarking system

  • The basic premise of the system is that users can tag items into their online archives and befriend other users to share access to part or all of their items saved. The real differentiation, however, is found in the feature set: access to items, images to add to bookmarks, comments from friends (only), flash widget, better search, and soon IM/chat. - bmevans on 2007-08-01
31 Jul 07

A cognitive analysis of tagging

  • The rapid growth of tagging(1)in the last year is testament to how easy and enjoyable people find the tagging process. The question is how to explain it at the cognitive level. In search for a cognitive explanation of tagging, I went back to my dusty cognitive psychology textbooks. This is what I learnt. - bmevans on 2007-07-31

InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web :: April :: 2007

  • People are changing the way that they consume online information, as well as their expectations about its delivery. The social nature of the Web brings with it an expectation of interaction with information and modern Web design is reflecting that. - bmevans on 2007-07-31

InfoTangle :: The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging :: December :: 2005

  • Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems. The wisdom of crowds, the hive mind, and the collective intelligence are doing what heretofore only expert catalogers, information architects and website authors have done. They are categorizing and organizing the Internet and determining the user experience, and it’s working. No longer do the experts have the monopoly on this domain; in this new age users have been empowered to determine their own cataloging needs. Metadata is now in the realm of the Everyman. - bmevans on 2007-07-31

[cs/0508082] The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems

  • Collaborative tagging describes the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. Recently, collaborative tagging has grown in popularity on the web, on sites that allow users to tag bookmarks, photographs and other content. In this paper we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. Specifically, we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relative proportions of tags within a given url. We also present a dynamical model of collaborative tagging that predicts these stable patterns and relates them to imitation and shared knowledge. - bmevans on 2007-07-31
30 Jul 07

short overview of social bookmarking and tagging

  • short overview of social bookmarking and tagging - bmevans on 2007-07-30
  • Organizing information is significant in moving us from “searching for” to “doing with”.
  • Folksonomies are comprised of tags, not bookmarks) exist in contrast to taxonomies in information definition. A taxonomy is often pre-defined, or at minimum defined by authors/publishers. Folksonomies are user-defined.
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